"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
1)Chick Corea electik band
2)Tribal Tech
3)UK
4)Allan Holdsworth
5)Return To Forever
Taking talent and music composition into consideration.
Pre 90's top five:
RTF
Dregs
Bruford
Iceberg
Brand X
Post 90's
Tribal Tech
Special Providence
On the Virg/Planet X/Donati
Impact Fuze/Alkotrio
Helmet of Gnats
5 bands are ridiculously not enough, there are way too many.
I too prefer the Weather Report periods whithout Jaco.
I like the periods with Jaco, just prefer the others. They were more 'open'.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Phlox is an excellent newer fusion band.
They remind me of a really agressive & modern Soft Machine.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Easy to omit big contributors on a 5 list! (Magma, Area, VDGG, Fripp/KC, Ornette, Miles Davis, Sonny Sharrock, Holdsworth I.O.U.) ...since recordings are generally the main window available you have for playing along, there's at least some reason behind listing a few that made a big crater or hit new neurons. (Anyone interested in harping on about taxonomic minutiae of what is or is not fusion is welcome to petulantly fire away...w/ any luck maybe you'll dig something mentioned that you haven't checked out yet).
-John McLaughlin (TW Lifetime through MO Birds of Fire)
-Soft Machine (1 through Bundles)
-Fred Frith (Henry Cow Legend through Massacre Funny Valentine)
-Frank Zappa (Hot Rats through Grand Wazoo)
-Weather Report (1st through Sweetnighter)
For sure quite a bit of foundational stuff happened outside the above (or any other) 5 list.
5 more specialized stems, (again w/huge crimes of omission...Kraan, Nova, Brand X, Colosseum, Nucleus, Pekka Pohjola, Association PC...):
-Fermata (1st 2)
-Perigeo (1st 4)
-Sammla (1st 4)
-Tipographica (1st 3)
-X-Legged Sally (1st 3)
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Weather Report
RTF
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Brand X
Jean-Luc Ponty
Maybe not best, but these are all great and worthy of being mentioned at least... SBB is one of the most consistent and longest living instrumental based bands ever, although they're only partly fusion...
SBB
Modry Effect
Jazz Q
Fermata
Iceberg
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