Pick one jazz-rock / fusion track

[Svetonio]

Just pick up one jazz-rock / fusion track, regardless of whether it's your lifetime favourite, or just the first one that comes to mind. It doesn't matter whether the track is old or new, vocally or instrumental, long or short, more or less progressive, but keep in mind - only one. No lists.


As my lifetime favourite fusion track, I pick Song To The Pharoah Kings by Return To Forever, from their Where Have I Known You Before the album from 1974.






Great and long Minimoog intro, amazing & outwordly atmosphere, astonishing Minimoog and Fender Rhodes electric piano in interplay with dynamic rhythm section and guitar. And it's interesting that this song was one of the first fusion songs that I heard as a kid, actually a year after the album was released, and Song To The Pharoah Kings is still to be my favourite fusion track to this day.

[mogrooves]

[JJ88]

'Vuelta Abajo', Tony Williams Lifetime. Red hot!

[mike_hunt]

[The Dark Elf]

I'll give you a couple, just to be difficult:

[Zeuhlmate]

[jkleban]

Mr ELF....

Amazing coincidence.... I was driving home from the SUPERMARKET with my wife yesterday and starting humming the intro. I haven't heard this song in 40 years... I knew it was BECK but had no idea what song it was and all I could remember was that riff...

This is a twilight zone moment for me.

Thanks for posting this song.

Jim

PS - and Mr Beck has to have one big callus on his right thumb.

[jkleban]

My favorite has to be "What is Hip" by Tower or Power......

Jim

[Scrotum Scissor]

Curt Cress kickin' zum zerius AZZ - German style.

[tormato]

https://youtu.be/C0ImE4Tesz8

[progeezer]

New York - Dreams

[BobM]

Caldera - Himalaya (1979)

[Levgan]

[YESHEAD777]

I got two:
Allan Holdsworth- Metal Fatigue
Chick corea elektric band-Charged Particles

[Jubal]

[markwoll]

Can't do it. Deep rabbit hole of no escape.

[chalkpie]

PS - listen to the drum pattern at around 6:30 on.....absolutely phenomenal. Aynsley Dunbar.

[Reid]

[Firth]

[rapidfirerob]

[ThomasKDye]

"Killer" -- because Gary Moore just KILLS it.

[proggosaurus]

Solution - Chappaqua (Cordon Bleu/1975)

[GuitarGeek]

Side two of In A Silent Way. I don't care if it's an editing trick, but I love that groove that Tony plays on it. And I love the way he breaks the tension when he finally breaks out of that groove and starts playing a "normal" part toward the end of the piece. And I also love the fact that the end of the track is the same recording as the beginning of the track.

[Mister Triscuits]

[FrippWire]

Mahavishnu Orchestra / Eternity's Breath, Parts 1 & 2 (7:59 of pure spiritual firepower).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB6dFl-UiBg