tedmanzie Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) Following on from a 1970/71 James Brown phase, I've been having a 70s jazz/fusion/funk phase for the last few months. I've picked up lots of LPs, mostly vinyl. Some of this stuff is really amazing. I particularly enjoy the stuff that keeps an element of the funk rhythm section about it, and if it has mini moogs (etc) on then its a bonus point Personally I'm not really liking later 70s fusion that gets too rocky or too tricksy/prog, also when it gets too funk/disco I don't find it so interesting, and the same for stuff that goes too free and loses the rhythm.[i] But any recommendations welcome[/i]! I would also be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? So here are some of my current top favourites. I'm still searching around in this jazz world so please post any recommendations or top tips: Nathan Davis - If George Duke - Faces In Reflection / Feel Miles Davis - Bitches Brew / Live Evil Eddie Henderson - Realization / Inside Out Herbie Hancock - Headhunters / Thrust / Sextant / Mwandishi / Crossings Norman Connors - Dance of Magic / Dark of Light / Slewfoot Larry Young's Fuel Lonnie Liston Smith - Visions Of A New World Johnny Hammond - Gambler's Life Harvey Mason - Marching In The Street Edited January 30, 2013 by tedmanzie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul deluxe Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) .not sure about British early 70's jazz funk, not sure it had made the jump over the atlantic at that point.. you could try some very early Incognito... beggar and co. light of the world...as for american 70's jazz funk Billy Cobham does it for me.. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9Vaml0dZE[/media] Edited January 30, 2013 by soul deluxe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) Billy Cobham - Spectrum Stanley Clarke - Stanley Clarke ( a.k.a the one with the brown cover ) Not British , but essential fusion albums nevertheless . Both highly recommended . [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aw2rM0w-pc[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtyzeBsZe4A[/media] Edited January 30, 2013 by Dingus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul deluxe Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngYi7GLiHZg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul deluxe Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 a bit later Norman Connors... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9hqQtZN7X8&feature=share&list=PLB481395868A2CC46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenitram Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I really like this blog for interesting jazzy funky stuff: http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.co.uk/ No idea if that fits in with what you want, but there's lots of lovely stuff. Particularly, er, if you like Rhodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmanzie Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) [quote name='soul deluxe' timestamp='1359548947' post='1956349'] you seem to have your reccomendations down already.. and seem to very very specific on what your after...not sure about British early 70's jazz funk, not sure it had made the jump over the atlantic at that point.. you could try some very early Incognito... beggar and co. light of the world...as for american 70's jazz funk Billy Cobham does it for me.. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9Vaml0dZE[/media] [/quote] thanks, good tip. gotta love JS's Basil Fawlty 70s moustache too! sorry to be too specifc in what i'm after! just describing my findings. any recommendations gratefully received Edited January 30, 2013 by tedmanzie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmanzie Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 [quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1359550948' post='1956413'] I really like this blog for interesting jazzy funky stuff: [url="http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.co.uk/"]http://neverenoughrh...blogspot.co.uk/[/url] No idea if that fits in with what you want, but there's lots of lovely stuff. Particularly, er, if you like Rhodes. [/quote] Who couldn't love a Rhodes! i took a piano lesson once and the guy had a Rhodes. I couldn't concentrate at all as i was just listening to any note on it and thinking 'I must get one of these'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul deluxe Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYHPVUnzEFs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Any of Freddie Hubbards albums that he made between 1970 and 1980 are worth checking out . I'm not sure all of them would qualify as fusion - more hard bop on earlier albums such as Red Clay and Straight Life but these are well worth checking out of you like Miles Davis - but he certainly gets into that territory as the decade progresses . From 1972 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91utPXs3SWw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visog Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Continuing the Stanely Clarke theme, I'd recommend Return to Forever's 'No Mystery' which is their funk album. It's my least favourite of theirs but fits your requirements of jazz-funk, moog and stack heels (probably in Al Di Meola's case). My favourite track on it is the title track but that too, like the album is a mixed bag, featuring one of Chick's best heads but an excruciating bowed bass solo which I can't stand to listen too - which is odd 'cause I normally love Stanley's electric/acoustic tone and playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneknob Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Everyone goes with Billy Cobham's first album, but I'm a big fan of the second one Crosswinds. The opening track is in 17/16. Have fun! Also I love the first couple of Return To Forever albums, but they're a bit more latin than fusion. Listen to them anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneknob Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Al Di Meola's "Elegant Gypsy" as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siq2qkINyPY Al Di Meola, Jan Hammer, Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) [quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359548337' post='1956338'] Following on from a 1970/71 James Brown phase, I've been having a 70s jazz/fusion/funk phase for the last few months. I've picked up lots of LPs, mostly vinyl. Some of this stuff is really amazing. I particularly enjoy the stuff that keeps an element of the funk rhythm section about it, and if it has mini moogs (etc) on then its a bonus point Not really liking later 70s fusion that gets too rocky or too tricksy/prog, also when it gets too funk/disco I don't find it so interesting, and the same for stuff that goes too free and loses the rhythm. Would be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? So here are some of my current top favourites. I'm still searching around in this jazz world so please post any recommendations or top tips: Nathan Davis - If George Duke - Faces In Reflection / Feel Miles Davis - Bitches Brew / Live Evil Eddie Henderson - Realization / Inside Out Herbie Hancock - Headhunters / Thrust / Sextant / Mwandishi / Crossings Norman Connors - Dance of Magic / Dark of Light / Slewfoot Larry Young's Fuel Lonnie Liston Smith - Visions Of A New World Johnny Hammond - Gambler's Life Harvey Mason - Marching In The Street [/quote]I'm not sure that what you're after actually exists. There were British artists such as Caravan and Soft Machine, but may well be a little too Proggy for your taste. Later in the 70s you had Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Brand X etc but they may be a little too rocky for you. Seems what you're after comes mainly from the States, as your list of artists would suggest. Not sure there are any British Jazz Classics, of the kind you want, from that era. Edited January 30, 2013 by SteveK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) Inspired by Toneknobs ' Al Di Meola pick , I'm going to go a bit off-road here and leap forward to 1982 . Plenty of Moog though , and an excellent fusion album in my opinion : [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YCw_7P3YJ4[/media] Al , Steve Gadd , Jan Hammer and the formiddable Anthony Jackson on bass . Edited January 30, 2013 by Dingus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul deluxe Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) i think this is as early as your maybe going to find early UK jazz Funk unless its underground stuff... i could be wrong.. i remember when this first came out, it was revalation for british jazz funk.... followed them ever since, but the a very different band now. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvp3Xu1_Dw[/media] Edited January 30, 2013 by soul deluxe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul deluxe Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) always loved this guy [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzd1wcRfRD8[/media] Edited January 30, 2013 by soul deluxe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Steve Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 If you want to listen to some great jazzy/funky bass then have a listen to This Way Upp by UPP. This album weas produced by Jeff Beck who also plays on it. The bass player - the late Stephen Amazing - chose him name well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneknob Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 [quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359548337' post='1956338'] Would be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? [/quote] Ah, read the question Tone. Have a go with Hatfield And The North. I find (for example) Soft Machine a bit too barmy. Hatfield are post-Caravan whimsy-prog, but just onside from the madness of Soft Machine. (Having said that, SM in their very recent years before Hugh Hopper died were brilliant). Check out all four Hatfield albums - try the original Eponymous and The Rotters Club first, then more recent archive releases Hatwise Choice: Archive Recordings 1973-1975, Volume 1 and Hattitude: Archive Recordings 1973-1975, Volume 2. Here's "Going Up To People And Tinkling" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDepecCm0pw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowender Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 It's funny hearing some of this stuff again. In many cases, it has not aged well, but it had some great bass that I realize is the foundation for so much of what I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmanzie Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Thanks everyone, great tips here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coilte Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I love the early Crusaders material. Here is a taste : [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6F8yUdg6ls"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6F8yUdg6ls[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 [quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1359553678' post='1956490'] If you want to listen to some great jazzy/funky bass then have a listen to This Way Upp by UPP. This album weas produced by Jeff Beck who also plays on it. The bass player - the late Stephen Amazing - chose him name well. [/quote]I think I know the drummer that used to be with UPP... Oh yeah, he's in my band He did an album that featured Jeff Beck a couple of years ago. You can find a taster [url="http://jimmycopley.com/"]here[/url]. Won't be of any interest to the OP though... unless he digs the blues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisthebass Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 This is a classic: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQsSQRWMhOs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQsSQRWMhOs[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetaFunk Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 [quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359548337' post='1956338'] I would also be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? [/quote] What about this? http://youtu.be/lDfCkJ_LwcE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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