Fusion - Any Recommendations?

I don't think anyone really read about area. Everyone is just recommending random jazz-fusion bands. Everything I've read about them so far has compared them to Soft Machine with highly left-wing Socialist and Communist lyrics which is about the furthest thing from Fourplay and The Yellow Jackets that I can possibly think of.

a top 10 list:

passport: hand-made or infinity machine or cross-collateral (3 classics of their 20 plus albums)

weather report: sweetnighter or i sing the body electric (out there)

miles davis: in a silent way (it qualifies);honorable mention-hall of fame

friendship: that is the album & group name--great!--a top line-up together for this one album--has ernie watts on sax, played with the stones, it's a winner.

the section: fork it over: a rare fusion album by the band that backs jackson brown & james taylor...it's great (they put out two studio albums and one live one; fork it over is the best of the bunch)

too much thinking...enjoy...brad

best italian fusion group--you are right-they have their own flavor--check out 'Goblin'

I second Klaus Doldinger and Passport. Every thing they have done is exceptional,I have them all on Vinyl. Iguacu,Earthborn,Ataraxia are some of my favorites. I prefer his recordings that were in the middle of their catalog. I would reccommend Earthborn because on this album klaus finaly lets his sax back into the front of the music where the moog had seemed to replace his chops in previous records of this period.

synthfreek - it's ok that people are just listing random jazz fusion bands - that's what i was looking for. i wouldn't expect anyone else to be like Area. they're pretty unique. the fact that they have high left-win socialist and/or communist lyrics means almost nothing to me anyway since they sing in Italian, but it sure SOUNDS cool...