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Jazz fusion
Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s from a mixture of elements of jazz such as its focus on improvisation with the rhythms and grooves of funk and R&B; and the beats and heavily amplified electric instruments and electronic...
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Where Have I Known You Before
Where Have I Known You Before is the fourth album by seminal Jazz-Rock Fusion band Return to Forever.
While the style of music has not changed much since the previous album, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, important changes have taken place in the band...
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- 1974
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Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat
Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. is the first demo by American nu metal band Slipknot. Released on October 31, 1996, the album was limited to production of 1,000 copies. The band originally self-distributed copies, but went on to release remaining units...
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- Jul 13, 1997
The Sun Don't Lie
The Sun Don't Lie is an album by Marcus Miller, released in 1993, belonging to the jazz rock genre.
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- 1993
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Suddenly
Suddenly is an album by Marcus Miller. The jazz rock album was released in 1983.
The album was re-released in 1999.
All tracks composed by Marcus Miller; except where indicated
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- 1983
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Abraxas
Abraxas is the second album by Santana, the Latin rock n' roll group led by guitarist Carlos Santana. Consolidating their live success at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and the interest generated by their first album the band took some time to...
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- Sep 1970
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine is the fourth album by The Police, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). Much of the material in this album was inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine, which also provided the title.
The cover art for Ghost in...
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- Oct 2, 1981
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- 2,468.2 s (41.137 min )
Bitches Brew
Bitches Brew is a studio double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in April 1970 on Columbia Records. The album continued Davis' experimentation of electric instruments previously featured on his critically acclaimed In a Silent Way album....
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- Apr 1970
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- 2,822 s (47.03 min )
Junta
Junta is Phish's first studio venture, recorded and released in 1988 but not officially hitting stores until May 8, 1989. The album was later released on October 26, 1992 by Elektra Records. It contains symphonic-like epics, large-scale...
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- 1988
Head Hunters
Head Hunters is the twelfth album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 on Columbia Records. The album is a key release in Hancock's career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz fusion. It was ranked as number 498 in the book version of Rolling...
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- Oct 13, 1973
The Grand Wazoo
The Grand Wazoo is a 1972 jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa. Composed and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence following his assault in London, the album, along with its "twin brother" Waka/Jawaka, represent Zappa's foray into big band...
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- Dec 1972
A Live One
A Live One is a live album by Phish. It was released on June 27, 1995 by Elektra Records and was the band's first live release, and the only "traditional" live album, mixing songs from several different shows into one composite set. The album was...
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Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat, released in 1969, is the soundtrack to The Mothers of Invention's long-delayed film of the same name; the front cover, designed by Cal Schenkel, included the words "(Most of the Music from the Mother's [sic] Movie of the Same Name Which...
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- Jun 1969
In the Court of the Crimson King
In the Court of the Crimson King (an observation by King Crimson) is the 1969 debut album by the British progressive rock group King Crimson. The album reached #3 on the British charts. The album is certified gold in the United States.
The album is...
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- Oct 12, 1969
Secrets of the Beehive
Secrets of the Beehive is the third solo album of David Sylvian, which was released in 1987. Produced by Steve Nye and David Sylvian, the album features Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Torn, Mark Isham and Steve Jansen among others.
All tracks composed by...
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- 1987
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- 2,435.267 s (40.58778 min )
Inspiration
Inspiration - Colors & Reflections is the sixth album by Azeri jazz artist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh. The album was released in 2000 with the sales of over 800.000 copies worldwide.
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- 2000
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- 4,697 s (78.28 min )
Lizard
Lizard is the third album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1970. It was the second recorded by a transitional line-up of the group that never had the opportunity to perform live, following In the Wake of Poseidon. This would be the...
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- Dec 1970
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- 2,562.56 s (42.7093 min )
Charlie Hunter Trio
Charlie Hunter Trio is a 1993 (see 1993 in music) album by jazz musician Charlie Hunter.
This self-titled debut album was recorded on Les Claypool's, Prawn Song record label.
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- 1993
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- 2,903.693 s (48.39488 min )
The Chicago Transit Authority
The Chicago Transit Authority is the eponymous debut album by the Chicago-based rock band The Chicago Transit Authority, who would later be known as Chicago. It was recorded and released in 1969.
Upon the band's 1967 inception, they were initially...
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- Apr 28, 1969
Chicago
Chicago II is the second album by Chicago-based rock band Chicago. It was released in 1970 after the band had shortened its name from The Chicago Transit Authority after releasing their same-titled debut album the previous year.
Although the...
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- Jan 26, 1970
One of a Kind
One of a Kind is an album by the British band Bruford. It was released in 1979 and is a collection of progressive melodies with much jazz exploration, in style that can be defined within the limits of jazz fusion. The group led by drummer Bill...
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- 1979
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- 2,841.013 s (47.35022 min )
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Bing, Bing, Bing!
Bing, Bing, Bing! is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by jazz musician Charlie Hunter. This was his first album for the Blue Note label and features his 8-string guitar.
The cover is a retro homage to Horace Parlan's 1960 album, Speakin' My Piece....
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- 1995
Fictitious Sports
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason fronted the group who made the one-off self-titled album Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports in May 1981 in the UK and US, this being Mason's first major work outside of Pink Floyd. However, the album is considered by many a...
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- 1981
The Lillywhite Sessions
The Lillywhite Sessions (LWS) is a collection of songs recorded by Dave Matthews Band in 1999 and 2000 and produced by Steve Lillywhite. The songs, recorded by the band as a follow-up to their 1998 album Before These Crowded Streets, were ultimately...
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- 4,179 s (69.65 min )
Waka/Jawaka
Waka/Jawaka is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 1972. The album is the jazz-influenced precursor to The Grand Wazoo, and, as the front cover indicates, sequel of sorts to 1969's Hot Rats. Miles Davis's Bitches Brew-era influence is readily...
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- Jul 5, 1972
Fillmore East - June 1971
Fillmore East – June 1971 is a live album by The Mothers, released in 1971.
This was a live concept-like album. It was a quick peek behind the curtain of the life of a rock band on the road as narrated by Frank Zappa, and contains many thematic...
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- Jun 1971
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life is a double disc live album by Frank Zappa, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). The album was one of three to be recorded during the 1988 world tour, along with Broadway the Hard Way and Make a Jazz Noise...
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Ennea
Ennea was the second album by jazz-rock fusion band Chase. It did not repeat the commercial success of their debut album, mostly due to the lack of a top 40 hit and the extended suite to Greek Mythology on side 2, which lacked the "commercial appeal...
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- 1972
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Chicago at Carnegie Hall
Chicago at Carnegie Hall is the first live album by American band Chicago and was initially released in 1971 as a four LP vinyl box set on Columbia Records. It was also available for a time as two separate 2-record sets.
While touring in support of...
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- Oct 25, 1971
Kamakiriad
Kamakiriad is the second solo album by Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen, released in 1993. It was his first collaboration with Steely Dan partner Walter Becker, who produced the album, since 1980. The album is a futuristic optimistic 8 song-cycle...
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- May 24, 1993
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- 3,031.827 s (50.53045 min )
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Over-Nite Sensation
Over-Nite Sensation is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). It was recorded in March – June 1973 at these studios: Bolic Sound in Inglewood, Whitney, in Glendale, and Paramount in Los Angeles. The album was released in both...
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- Sep 7, 1973
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 is a live album by Frank Zappa. Despite the subtitle "The Helsinki Concert," the album is not one complete concert, but was, in fact, assembled from two (and possibly three) different concerts performed in...
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- Oct 25, 1988
Jaco Pastorius
This self-titled album was Pastorius' solo debut and was originally released in 1976. The disc begins with a cover version of Miles Davis' "Donna Lee" and includes eight other tracks. The album is a popular choice among fans of jazz.
"Donna Lee"
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- Aug 1976
Birds of Fire
Birds of Fire is Mahavishnu Orchestra's second studio album released in 1973. It is the last one performed by the original Mahavishnu Orchestra line-up, before Jean-Luc Ponty replaced Jerry Goodman on violin and Narada Michael Walden replaced Billy...
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- 1972
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- 2,431.267 s (40.52112 min )
The Inner Mounting Flame
The Inner Mounting Flame is Mahavishnu Orchestra's first studio album, released in 1971.
The back cover of the LP features a poem entitled "Aspiration" by Sri Chinmoy.
A remastered version of the album, on CD, was released in 1998 by Sony Music...
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- Aug 1971
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- 2,796.293 s (46.60488 min )
Rough and Ready
Rough and Ready is the third album by The Jeff Beck Group and the first of two by the second Jeff Beck Group. Released in 1971, it featured more of a Jazz, Soul and R&B; edge to counter Beck's lead guitar. Beck contributed more tracks on Rough and...
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- Oct 1971
Free Fall
Free Fall is a studio album by the jazz fusion band Dixie Dregs, released in 1977.
All songs written by Steve Morse.
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- May 27, 1977
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- 2,505.2 s (41.753 min )
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What If
What If is a studio album by the jazz fusion band Dixie Dregs, released in 1978.
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- Mar 1978
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- 2,408.627 s (40.14378 min )
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Gradually Going Tornado
Gradually Going Tornado is the third and final studio album by Bruford. It was co-produced by Weather Report collaborator Ron Malo and released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). In contrast to the band's previous all-instrumental effort, it included...
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- 1980
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Filles de Kilimanjaro
Filles de Kilimanjaro (French: "Girls of Kilimanjaro") is a jazz album by Miles Davis. It was recorded in June and September 1968, and Columbia Records released the album in 1969. The June sessions featured Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock...
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- 1968
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- 3,392.893 s (56.54822 min )
One Size Fits All
One Size Fits All is a 1975 rock album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It is the last Zappa album to be recorded with The Mothers of Invention. A special four-channel Quadraphonic version of the album was prepared and advertised, but...
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- Jun 25, 1975
Miles in the Sky
Miles in the Sky is an album recorded in January and May 1968 by the Miles Davis quintet. It is notable for the first use of electric piano and electric guitar on an issued recording by Davis, a foreshadowing of his move into fusion music over the...
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- 1968
In a Silent Way
In a Silent Way is a 1969 album by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Although previous Davis records and live performances had already begun the shift to jazz fusion, In a Silent Way featured a full-blown electric approach. For this and other reasons, it...
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- Oct 1969
A Tribute to Jack Johnson
A Tribute to Jack Johnson is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released February 24, 1971 on Columbia Records. It was recorded as the soundtrack for a documentary by Bill Cayton about the heavyweight world champion boxer Jack Johnson.
The...
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- Feb 24, 1971
Get Up with It
Get Up With It is an album collecting tracks recorded between 1970 and 1974 by Miles Davis. Released on November 22, 1974 as a double LP, it was Davis' last studio album before five years of retirement from music.
"He Loved Him Madly" is a half-hour...
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- Nov 22, 1974
Running Time:
- 7,432 s (123.9 min )
Big Fun
Big Fun is a double album of tracks recorded between 1969 and 1972 by Miles Davis and his band. It was released on April 19, 1974 as a double LP. Largely ignored on its original release, its expanded 2000 reissue has led to a belated reevaluation....
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- Apr 19, 1974
John Barleycorn Must Die
John Barleycorn Must Die is an album by the English rock band Traffic, released on Island Records in the United Kingdom, and United Artists in the United States, catalogue UAS 5504. It peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200, their highest charting album...
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- Jul 1970
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- 2,076 s (34.6 min )
N.E.W.S
N.E.W.S is a 2003 instrumental jazz fusion/funk album by Prince containing four tracks of fourteen minutes duration each. Recorded at Prince's Paisley Park Studios over a single day, the album was initially available through Prince's NPG Music Club...
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- Jul 22, 2003
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is a 1971 album by English rock band Traffic. As with other Traffic albums, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys featured different forms and offshoots of rock including jazz rock, progressive rock, as well as classic...
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- Nov 1971
Running Time:
- 2,422.827 s (40.38045 min )
Miles Gurtu
Miles_Gurtu (2004) is the fourth album by Robert Miles, the second he independently recorded and produced. Created with Indian jazz percussionist Trilok Gurtu, the result was a mix of their very disparate styles.
Miles_Gurtu expanded Robert Miles' ...
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- Feb 10, 2004
Third
Third is a 1970 double LP by Soft Machine, with each side of the original vinyl consisting of a single long composition. Its music explores the emerging jazz fusion of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which was released in the same...
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- Jun 6, 1970
Running Time:
- 4,522.293 s (75.37155 min )
Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory
Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, released in 1973, was the sixth studio album by English rock band Traffic. It followed their 1971 hit The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and contained only five songs. Shoot Out, while achieving poorer reviews than...
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- Jan 1973
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment was released in 1998 by Liquid Tension Experiment through Magna Carta. The group is formed by John Petrucci (guitars), Mike Portnoy (drums), Tony Levin (bass, Chapman stick), and Jordan Rudess (keyboard). The album was...
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- Mar 10, 1998
Running Time:
- 4,444.333 s (74.07222 min )
Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Liquid Tension Experiment 2 is the second album by the band Liquid Tension Experiment. The tracks were largely improvised with little rehearsal, and there are no vocals.
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- Jun 15, 1999
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- 4,439.76 s (73.996 min )
Moonlighting
Moonlighting is the debut album by contemporary jazz ensemble The Rippingtons. Recorded in July/August 1986, it featured the cut "She Likes to Watch," which has gone on to become one of the band's signature songs. The album was initially released by...
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- 1986
Return to Forever
Return to Forever is a jazz fusion album by Chick Corea, simultaneously functioning as the debut album by the band of the same name. Unlike later albums by the group, it was released by the ECM label and produced by Manfred Eicher. The album was not...
Release Date:
- 1972
Running Time:
- 2,811.8 s (46.863 min )
M²
M is a 2001 album by Marcus Miller, and the winner of the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
All tracks composed by Marcus Miller; except where indicated
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- May 8, 2001
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 is a double disc collection of live recordings by Frank Zappa. Disc one comprises performances by the Mothers of Invention spanning the period from 1965 to 1969. Disc two comprises performances from the...
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- Jun 1992
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 is the last of six double disc collection volumes of live performances by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988. All of the material on Disc one has a sexual theme. It was released on October 23, 1992 ...
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- Oct 23, 1992
