Members ak47dragunov Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Can anyone recommend some jazz fusion with killer guitar for me to learn. I've recently gotten into fusion and I'd love to learn some songs. Thanks a lot. (Nothing TOO insane though) (intermediate-moderately difficult) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yngtchie Blacksteen Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 I've always been a fan of Jeff Beck's "Scatterbrain". Give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flogger59 Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Start with the classics.Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow, WiredMahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of FireMiles Davis: Bitches BrewWeather Report (no guitar): Heavy Weather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kind of Blued Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 There's no guitar on the second one, but who cares. You gotta get over that. They're just musical ideas, and they're the same ideas regardless of instrumentation. Nevertheless, it's one of the best groove-based records of all-time in my opinion. This is kind of a weird thread. "Jazz fusion" is totally nebulous really, and you could call just about any improvisational music played by jazz musicians "jazz fusion". Also, there's really not a stereotypical "sound" to be into or to NOT be into. That said, RTF, Mahavishnu, certain Miles, Herbie, etc. occasionally sound similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floortom Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Take a shot at "Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members go cat go Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Take a shot at "Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway" Hahaha! I remember when I first heard Al DiMeola. He play guitar faster than I play air guitar was the joke. This is a great album. Recommended listening: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mountain Flame Jean Luc Ponty - anything with Allan Holdsworth Billy Cobham - Spectrum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Robben ford, Larry Carlton, Frank Gambale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ak47dragunov Posted January 26, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Thank you guys! Any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bro Blue Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Mastodon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vintage55 Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 Guthrie Govan The Simon Phillips cds, if you can find them...Ray Russell is a pretty good fusion player. Dave Weckl's early albums with Buzz Feiten on guitar. The Jazz Pistols out of Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 ... Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire ... Great stuff but personally I wouldn't call that "moderately" difficult. I'd call it insanely difficult . If you can play that like John McLaughlin then major kudos! How about Zappa's Peaches En Regalia - does that count as fusion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T ned Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Probably hard to learn from...but mucho fun to listen to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members metallica_00 Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 New Jimmy Herring album - Lifeboat Killer stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulojcduarte Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Mike Stern? [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike-o Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 miles davis electric = mind = blown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mcmurray Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Guthrie Govan +1, although his music can be insanely difficult. Also check out Jonas Hellborg. Octave of the Holy Innocents or art metal for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goth70 Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Yes....just walk into any dentist office or supermarket and enjoy the background music:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zig Aladdin Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Brand X Livestock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChrisGansz Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Alfonse Mouson - Mind Transplant with Tommy Bolin on guitar - if you can find it on CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scuzzo Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Love Devotion And Surrender by John McLaughlin and Carlos Santanainner mounting flame by Mahvishnue OrchFriend Ship by John McLaughlin-- im not sure thats the title of the LP.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Portland1 Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 One of my favorite guitarists at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 3shiftgtr Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Well you asked about stuff to play...stuff to get you started....Stuff that's no too hard to play...Tunes that a rock musician can play and understand with a little work. Jeff Beck - Led Boots, Blue Wind, Freeway Jam Pat Metheney - Phase Dance, Unity Village John Scofield - Wabash, Chank, Herbie Hancock - These tunes were done as jazz, but folks play them as funk and funky rock tunes - Watermelon Man, Cantaloupe Island, and Maiden Voyage Eric Johnson - Manhattan Miles Davis - It is also real common to take these tunes and make em funky or rocked out - So What, Jean Pierre, Impressions (actually a Coltrane tune) And here's an obscure pick, try Jing Chi's Hong Kong Incident (With Robben Ford, Vinnie Coliauta, and Jimmy Haslip). It's a great riff based fusion tune. Also check out tunes by Soulive - their changes in their stuff is jazz, but not too crazy, and found in a lot of R&B stuff, so fairly easy to figure out. And EARLY Galactic, too. And when it comes to listening, fuze headz still listen to DISCS. Here's a sampling of disc titles that are considered standard listening. There's more, but this'll gitcha started: John Scofield - Blue Matter Pat Metheney - Travels Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue, 16 Men of Tain, or anything really.... John Mcglaughlin - Mahavishnu Orchestra/Inner Mounting Flame, or most anything really... Mike Stern - Play, These Times Yellowjackets - Yellowjackets Dixie Dregs - What If Shawn Lane - Personae Al DiMeola - Land of the Rising Sun and with Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior Bruford - One Of A Kind Tribal Tech - Illicit Larry Carlton - Larry Calton Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes Screaming Headless Torsos - Screaming Headless Torsos Players like Bill Frisell, Charlie Hunter, Greg Howe, Brett Garsed, and all the others mentioned in the posts by everybody else here will give you plenty to listen to. Fusion music gets a bad rap, but it's mostly from folks who just don't get it. At it's best, it is full of genius level creativity, brilliant musicianship, and intense interplay during improvisation, and amazing attention to detail. Fuze heads are few and far between, so there is virtually noconsideration for the market, keeping the genre pretty much industry bull{censored} free. LONG LIVE THE FUZE!!!!!!!:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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