Jazz for aficionados

Frogman,

Thanks for posting Romantic Warrior.  Haven't listened to it in a long time and had forgotten how much I liked the album. 

My jazz began with Frank Sinatra, Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner and Louis Armstrong. (when he played more than he sang).  I started playing drums in grade school and by the time I got to high school I was listening to Miles Davis and Frank Zappa. 

Chick Corea, Herbie, and Weather Report exploded, (at least to me) on the scene when I was in high school and because I was living near Seattle I got to hear them live many times.  It was a great time to love music.

One of the many aspects I like about fusion, (and a lot of jazz for that matter) is that the song "develops."  With a lot of pop you know everything about the song in the first 16 bars, maybe 8.  It's one of the reasons I like the Beatles, (and others) so much; their song develop and change throughout.

I have also been blessed with extreme difficulty understanding lyrics.  In other words, I hear the human voice as an instrument. 

I remember one morning listening to Weather Report.  I had been married all of 2 days and my wife and I were still getting to know each other.  It was about 7 in the morning and I've got my stereo playing "Black Market" and was playing along, intensely on a kitchen pot.  It was the nearest instrument. 

Count me in as a member of the "I like fusion" club.

Bob

And we're still married.  29 years this August.

The Fusion Lovers Doth Express Their Love Too Much, methinks.

Cheers

Frogman, why didn't you put my bright yellow doubled knit bell bottomed slacks with the low waist and 2 inch cuffs in your post; I'm sure they fit somewhere.

As I stated before, I no longer make conscious decisions in regard to music, I trust that to my inner soul, so if it doesn't like the music, don't blame me, blame my inner soul. It also told me that "My Spanish Heart" is not the fusion that you have been presenting. The word "fusion" can be used to represent so many different combinations that it's meaning is abstract, vague, and non definitive. Fusion in regard to "My Spanish Heart" could be the fusion of jazz and Spanish music. Fusion that we have been listening to is electronic space music.

Since I owned those bright yellow double knit bell bottomed trousers with (correction) the 3 inch cuffs, I'm sure I had a good reason for buying them, just as I own all these fusion LP's, I'm sure I had a good reason for buying them as well; but at the moment whatever that reason was, it eludes me.

I can not separate those trouser and "Romantic Warrior" they both belong to a time in the past that I can no longer relate to. Those fusion records have not been converted to CD's, nor were they down loaded to the play list like all my favorite records.

The facts speak for themselves, now do you want me to lie and tell how much I like fusion in order to agree with your obsession with fusion?



Enjoy the music.  

***** One of the many aspects I like about fusion, (and a lot of jazz for that matter) is that the song "develops." *****

Interesting.   I always felt just the opposite about Fusion.  Just a collection of unrelated and unconnected sounds.  If it had a beginning, middle and ending, with all the players providing mutual support, if might be considered Jazz.  As it is, O-10 nailed it.   The title of the tunes and the album covers tell you all you need to know.

The Frogman pointed out on one of the JALC clips, how one soloist picked up and continued the theme by repeating the last musical phrase the previous soloist played.  I didn't hear anything  approaching that on the Chick Corea record.  Incoherent.

Cheers

rok,

thank you for your impressions.  Do you feel the same way about Weather Report, Herbie Hancock or Miles Davis during the same time period? 

Just curious, not trying to start a battle.

Bob