Rank Your Top Five All-Time Fusion Bands.

[Liquid Tension]

Are these considered fusion???

Morglbl
Helborg/lane/sipe
7 for 4
Shane Theriot
Phlox
Ohm
Naikaku
Kotebel

[BobM]

Hmmm, only 5 ... in no particular order then (yes, I cheated and I can;t count)

Tribal Tech
Weather Report/Zawinul Syndicate
Bruford
Brand X
Jean Luc Ponty
Happy The Man

[interbellum]

Shit, I already listed them in the 5 prog band thread.

Stop musical segregation!

"Crafty Hands" from Happy The Man also has so much fusion and progressive rock in it, I wouldn't want to choose. Bruford and David Sancious also and what about "Romantic Warrior" from Return To Forever and Kenso.

[jkelman]

W

Spyro Gyra
Dreams (Cobham, Breckers).

Without wanting to pick nits, Dreams was more a jazz-rock group,which is different than fusion. It was a bunch of jazzes (for the most part...) that wanted to play rock music. More s slightly jazzier alternative to similar bands of the time including Chicago, If, etc...

That said, still a great group. Rosters club and I saw them in a very small (75-seat) venue called Le Hibou at the time of the second album, where bassist Doug Lubahan and Abercrombie were gone, replaced by Will Lee and Bob Mann. I think cobham was also gone but who replaced him? Can't recall. Still they were terrific.

[Genital Giant]

Weather Report
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Return to Forever
Bruford
Dixie Dregs

[progholio]

Aw, come on, no love for the Jeff Beck fusion period (Wired, Blow By Blow, There and Back, Live w/Jan Hammer)?

gotta throw Cobham's Spectrum in there too, love those rock guitar players.

[bill g]

Pekka Pohjola
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Jean Luc Ponty
Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Passport

Thats my next 5 right there!

[wideopenears]

Weather Report, all eras, and I see someone put Zawinul Syndicate out there too, so, yeah....
Mahavishnu Orchestra, esp. Mark II (Visions...), though the first and even the 80's incarnation score high with me.
Chick Corea Elektric Band, leaving out Light Years.....
Return to Forever--both early (Latin/Acoustic) and later (pyrotechnic), the final big band incarnation less so....
Steps/Steps Ahead--just because no one's mentioned them, and they're fuckin' GREAT!!!

[No Pride]

Aw, come on, no love for the Jeff Beck fusion period (Wired, Blow By Blow, There and Back, Live w/Jan Hammer)?

I'm sure there's love for those albums amongst us fusion fans. Maybe if it was "top 6;" certainly if it was "top 10."

[BobM]

OK, so my next 5 then would be (still can't count)

Steps Ahead
Caldera
Brecker Brothers
RTF
Full Circle
David Sancious
UK
Mahivishnu Orch

[hightea]

Pierre moerlen's gong
Weather report
Mahivishnu orch
Return to forever
Brand x

[mellotron storm]

Miles Davis
Mahavishnu Orchestra
One Shot
Terje Rypdal
Nucleus
Herbie Hancock

[2steves]

Bruford
Return to Forever
David Sancious
Brand X
Weather Report

[Dave (in MA)]

Rypdal, Bruford, Aarset, WR, Brand X, Ponty

Oh crap, that's 6.

[rapidfirerob]

Brand X
RTF
Weather Report
Dregs
Ponty

[PeterG]

Cardiacs
The Sea Nymphs
Spratley's Japs
Mr & Mrs Smith & Mr Drake
Stars in Battledress

[Reid]

I'm No.1, muthafuckers! Let's get this shit straight.

[perpetual strange]

Weather Report
Jean-Luc Ponty
Brand X
Pierre Moerlin's Gong
Kenso

[Christopher Henry]

Snarky Puppy

Seriously?!

[wideopenears]

I think Snarky Puppy is one of the best live bands ever, myself. But I have a hard time calling them "Fusion." Still....fucking incredible band, especially live.

[Galactic Bulldozer]

David Sancious
Lenny White
Jan Hammer
Allan Holdsworth
Billy Cobham
... and supporting band

[ProgUK]

[QUOTE=Christopher Henry;419160]Seriously?!

Stone cold serious

[aquelarre]

Weather Report ( with Jaco )
Return to Forever
Billy Cobham
MAhavishnu Orchestra
Miles Davis

[Trane]

Weather Report ( with Jaco )

I bef-g to differ...

I much prefer the Vitous or A Johnson eras... and in some ways , even the Bailey-era...

When with Jacon I found the band's albums a little too much "all over the place" and not at all cohesive (on top of that Zawie's choice of synth in that era were not the best (for my ears, that is)

Jaco was an outstanding bassist, but he overdid almost everything he played with WR (I'm not so adamant on his other contributions and solo albums). Knowing howthe band functioned (Zawie the tyranic emperor and Shorter the inamovible heir), I'm surpeised Zawie stuck with Jaco so long...

[Scrotum Scissor]

RTF
Mahavishnu Orch
Musica Urbana
Sonny Sharrock (Ask the Ages, his only fusion input)
One Shot