Early Jazz-Rock Recommendations

[MJBrady]

Coronarias Dans - Visitor 1973 feat. Kenneth Knudsen/Claus Bolling
Ablution - Sweden 1974feat. Janne shaffer/B:jorn Lindh
Abus Dangereux - Bis - 80's band with a pretty sincere 70's fusion appeal
Arti + Mestieri - particularly the Tilt and Giro di valzer per domani lps
Aurora - 1977, archival release of this little know Mahavishnu like band from Texas
Bella Band - a one off band from Italy, left this little gem behind.
Edition Speciale - French band with some hints towards MO and RTF
Eero Koivistoinen - Finnish musician, berklee trained
Electromagnets - 1975 Eric Johnsons fusion past
Energit - Czechoslovakia feat. Lubos Andrst on guitar
Etna, a must have from Italy circa 1975
Fermata, particularly their early stuff.
Fusioon - Spanish band, their name speaks for itself.
Gotic - another spanish band, Essenes is excellent
Gunesh Ensemble - Turkmeni group no rules fusion here.
Iceberg - essential spanish RTF like fusion with tremendous keys and guitar.
Izvir - Yugo band very unique, recently remastered i believe.
Kraan, early stuff
Kornet, mentioned above, good swedish band
Shadowfax - Watercourse Way , no new age here, think MO or Eleventh House
Sloche, canadian band that had two great albums unearthed, must have
Spheroe - Obscure French band 2 good lps
Transit Express - another great French band from the 70's
Volker - 1976, features some great playing Didier Lockwood, Kurt Rust(passport), Patrik Gauthier(Magma)
Vyber Prazsky - Zizen - great Czech band
Visitor 2035, rare, I have only heard lp rips of this, but it is a very solid band indeed.
Caldera - multinational band that is a hybrid of Weather Report meets, RTF, fiery musicianship
Den za Den - another obscure, lp only AFAIK excellent band Yugo
Eider Stellaire - French band, called Zeuhl,but calling it fusion is good too.

More to come later...

[Shadow]

McCoy Tyner - Fly With The Wind
John Abercrombie - Timeless
Pierre Moerlin - Leave It Open
Stomu Yamashta - Raindog

[proggosaurus]

From - "0611" Cat Quarter (Germany/1971)
Good God - Good God (US/1972)
Space Circus - Funky Caravan (Japan/1978)
Space Circus - Fantastic Arrival (Japan/1979)
Master Cylinder - Elsewhere (US/1981)

[Trane]

Did you check out Ian Carr's band Nucleus?

Start with Elastic Rock

Absolutely!!!

And there were a few UK jazzers who dabbled in JR/F already in 68/69, Ian carr wasn't the only one.

[rickmoraz]

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...Caldera - multinational band that is a hybrid of Weather Report meets, RTF, fiery musicianship...

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Indeed. very good description of the group, and absolutely indispensable for fans of both RTF and WR. For a time only the S/T and Sky Islands were available on CD. However, Dreamer was also released earlier this year. If you want Time and Chance for your iTunes you will have to convert from Youtube, where some one had the brilliant idea of uploading all the album.

Ed

[rickmoraz]

Mingo Lewis - Flight Never Ending

[nosebone]

Absolutely!!!

And there were a few UK jazzers who dabbled in JR/F already in 68/69, Ian carr wasn't the only one.

Correct!

Graham Collier
Kenny Wheeler
John Surman
Keith Tippets
Neil Ardley, to name a few more.

[The Wall]

Isotope (Gary Boyle)

[walt]

If

[No Pride]

Joe Chambers with Larry Young-Double Exposure.

Joe Chambers on piano, keyboards and percussion, Larry Young on organ and synth.The track is "Mind Rain".Hip stuff.

That WAS hip, Walt! I didn't know Joe Chambers played piano! Joe, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Husband... what's up with all of these keyboard playing drummers?!

[nnknsh]

Plenty of German / Euro Jazz still not mentioned.
Joachim Kuhn
Rolf Kuhn
Volker Kriegel
Wolfgang Dauner
Philip Catherine
Chris Hinze
Michal Urbaniak
and so on....

[Birdy]

Herbie Hancock---Fat Albert Rotunda/Mwandishi/Crossings
Don Cherry--Brown Rice

[profusion]

Hey, if we list Airto, we should also list Flora Purim, who had some killer early records, quite a lot of fusion in them.

Oh, I completely agree (big fan of Flora), but most of her albums don't seem like what the OP is looking for. To me, her two most killer and intense fusion albums are Open Your Eyes You Can Fly and That's What She Said from 1976-77.

[R_burke]

Not sure if mid seventies counts as early or not, but if it does I nominate Sea Level

[ozric75]

George Russell Orchestra & Bill Evans - Living Time (72)



Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos - Electrum (70)



Hiromasa Suzuki - Rock Joint Biwa / Furukotofumi (1972)

[ozric75]

Eric Kloss - One, Two, Free (72)



Toshiyuki Miyama and His New Herd: Masahiko Sato - Yamataifu (72)



Masabumi Kikuchi - Poo-Sun (70)

[Scrotum Scissor]

Not early, and very little rock but rather a jazz-band-proper-with-some-rock-influence, Albert Mangeldorff's quartet MUMPS' sole release A Matter of Taste from 1977. This was essentially Mangelsdorff leading the John Surman trio (with the latter plus Stu Martin and Barre Phillips), with terrific end results.

I owned this record in the mid-90s, sold it to vast later regret (as with the Elton Dean's Just Us album) - and when I finally caught up with another copy and went to buy it after collecting the dough, it was GONE!!

The influence of this release can still be heard in groups like Orchester 33 1/3 (Austria), The Source (Norway) and the Mitteleuropa Ensemble (Italy).

Don't leave before you get to the groove!

[ozric75]

Yoshiaki Masuo ‎– 24 (70)



Kazumi Watanabe - Infinite (Kazumi Watanabe First) (71)



Pat Martino - Live (72)

[Shadow]

Dave Liebman
Jasper Van't Hof
Wolf
Scope

[Shadow]

Ibliss - Supernova
Gary Boyle
Magma (not the RIO noise band)

[aith01]

Magma (not the RIO noise band)

Which Magma is a RIO noise band?

[Shadow]

Which Magma is a RIO noise band?

The only one most people here know.

[aith01]

The only one most people here know.

Then I assume you're referring to Magma the Zeuhl founders, who are not ROI or a "noise band", and are in fact very much steeped in jazz and especially the music of Coltrane.

Incidentally, I'm curious which other Magma is jazz-rock as I wasn't aware of any others.

[grego]

Circus (UK - 1969)
Laboratorium( Poland)
SBB
Atlantis Transit ( Denmark)
Gasoline Band(UK - not fusion, jazz rock alike BST)

[Scrotum Scissor]

Magma (not the RIO noise band)

Please elaborate as to what "RIO noise" might be, and how Magma are supposed to fit in with that.

Interestingly, with the number of threads on both Rock-In-Opposition and Magma/Zeuhl by contributors with actual insight on these matters, I can't remember ever having read Magma as RIO or RIO as "noise" - so it would be nice to finally be enlightened.

There are, by the way, four other relatively well known Magmas; Rock Duo Magma from Germany (not jazz-rock), a Korean hard rock group, an Argentinian ethnic fusion band and a death metal one from Mexico (I believe). If not that "RIO noise" Magma, which Magma would you recommend the OP?