TEN ESSENTIAL JAZZ ROCK ALBUMS | Must Haves!!
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Mike Stern‘s Solo on Fat Time is the greatest guitar solo ever. In deed. Thank you for saying this.
Scary solo right after Miles''s scary solo.
I do think Evans' intense soprano solo is one of the greatest ever also ! 💥❣️
Yes indeed,after seeing Miles Davis live in Chicago,@Grant Park,60,000+people were there,in 1983 with Marcus Miller, afterward I was telling everyone about his guitar player Mike Stern, who in this concert in Chicago went off,just jar dropping! I agree, "Fat Time" was one of the greatest guitar solos.
Yea man, what a lineup Marcus Miller, Mike Stern, Bill Evans with Miles 83 he would later get Scofield. But I preferred the We Want Miles band.
I have not heard it but I can't believe it surpasses almost any solo by Joe Pass--but maybe you are talking only "jazz-rock" genre? How about the Larry Carlton solo on Kid Charlemagne (if you will allow that is jazz-rock)? Your thoughts are welcome!
Another fine list, Andy. 3 things:
1. I gotta put a plug in for Sonny Sharrock's Ask the Ages, wth Sonny on guitar, Charnette Moffett on bass, Pharaoh Sanders on saxophone and Elvis Jones on drums (!!!), it's like Hendrix playing with Coltrane. Gorgeous ballads and epic rocking jazz improv. Incredible.
2. Also, I saw Mike Stern play a small club on Christopher Street in the West Village in the early 90s and he was ferocious. Memorable!
3. I love Allan Holdsworth's Atavachron. What a high point of the 80s! It's the secret jazz sister of Rush's Grace Under Pressure. Cold War paranoia, synthesizers, giant toms.
Feel better soon!
Was listening to that yesterday, absolutely mindblowing, one of the great fusion albums. They are all dead now...
Sharrock tips always welcome because sometimes he delivers crude blues I don't like. Thanks!
Ask the ages is spiritual...a masterpiece...in my top ten albums 🎉🎉🎉
My favourite music is Stern, Sco, Metheny from the 80s and 90s...but love watching 😊
Great list, but what I like input is Jean Luc Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean.
Another gem!. You're killing my budget. Thanks for getting out of bed, and feel better.
Beautiful selection Andy with all the guitar gods Stern, Khan, Holdsworth, Scofield... Still Warm is one of my all time favorites, cheers!!!
Hey man loving your videos, didn't realize you were the drummer for law of three! unreal chops!
If you could in future post the albums mentioned in the description , would be helpful for reference sake. Thanks mate!
Again great post. Fantastic post. Keep it up. Very on point and love your humor
Nice choice of Life and Times for Billy. I must give a shout out to 'Magic' as a cracking album as well. His next album as far as I recall was, Simplicity of Expression, which I never really cared for but thinking it was a one off (grab for commercial popularity) I purchased B.C but was disappointed again. That's when me and Billy Cobham parted company. As for the name of the Jan Hammer group, Billy said in an interview regarding the problems that beset M.O. 1: 'If I learned anything, it was to make sure your band is named after you'. Maybe Jan had the same idea. :)
Nice exploratory episode. Could use more so I can search out new sounds and musicians.
As a 70 year old fan of the genre this took me back to Miles’ electric albums, Memphis Underground, etc.
Thanks - made my day
It is interesting to note the driving influence drummers had -White, Cobham, Wiliams.
We used to blow people out of the room with Tony Williams’ Emergency. Big refrigerator horn-loaded speakers playing terrifying music.
I know two classical guitarist and they both like Allan Holdsworth.
i will be a new subscriber.
I think I once read Ndugu was recording another album at the same studio Weather Report was at when they began working on Tale Spinnin’, they were in between drummers at the time, asked Ndugu to do it and bam 💥 the rest is history, if true that’s pretty phenomenal to think the drumming is almost completely off the cuff
Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷Best narrative presenter for me! Keep the good work Andy 😂💜🥁💯
The Simon Phillips story is great! Being a Jeff Beck fan, I love "There & Back" and actually one of my favorite songs is the gentle, haunting "The Final Peace". It's a rare song with a Beck co-writing credit and it features just the Guv'nor and keyboardist Tony Hymas. As a teen/young man, that song was used as background music for a concert calendar segment on a local rock FM station. I feel my blood pressure go down and the heartbeats slow to a nice relaxing pace whenever I hear the magical Beck volume swells and bends with Tony's atmospheric synth acting as a cloud under Jeff's soaring sounds.
Had me until the Holdsworth choice. Just never did it for me.
But you brought it back with Venusian Summer, and then Laswell.
As you do.
It's why I remain subscribed. You'll occasionally have a daft pick, but you always pull through with gold in the end, Andy.
Holdsworth a daft pick?..🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄... okay you can go back to listening to Taylor Swift 🙄🙄
Thanks so much for this, Andy; I really enjoy these
recommendations, which are always good, so when you bring up any albums that I haven't heard, it always gives me something to go seek out and experience; thanks always for your effort with these videos, and your other entertaining content.
Get well !!
If not done already, it will be nice to hear about Latin jazz and Latin jazz fusion, bands such as Irakere, Gato Barbieri, Caldera, Santana, Ray Barreto, Tito Puente, etc. 👍
Add in Azteca and Malo!
Life and Times is just raw….its amazing….
I haven’t included the obvious ones like Mahavishnu, Corea, Weather Report, Hancock, Bruford, Zappa, Metheny, Coryell.
Brand X - Live
Soft Machine - Bundles
Eberhard Weber - The Following Morning
Colosseum II - Wardance
Gary Burton - Passengers
Oregon - Out of the Woods
Jack DeJohnette - New Rags
Jerry Goodman - On the Future of Aviation
Moose Loose - Elgen er los [Norwegians]
John Abercrombie - While We’re Young
Niacin - Deep
Mention: Uzeb
A great lineup of must have jazz rock albums.
Laswell is also one of my favorites. Check out Tabla Beat Science or Praxis. Last Exist is also an amazing band. Same with power trio Massacre.
Miles, Santana and Bill Laswell... All the music I ever really needed!
1970’s “Dreams” is fantastic.
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Soft Machine, Collesium, Keef Hartley, Keith Tippet, Frank Zappa to name but a few. No top ten mention????
I love the memory serves album, but somehow I didn't know about the Bill Laswell basslines album.. somewhere along the line I missed it when I was younger .. I'm going to have to check that out for sure because I always enjoyed Material .. I really like Bill Laswell .. sorry to hear he has health issues.
a pizzaesque album cover, through and through! thanks for another great video!
Thank you for introducing me to Jan Hammer’s “Don’t You Know.” It’s haunted me ever since I listened to it. Jan’s music has a way of doing this to me, as its effect is not unlike “Escape” off of Jeff Beck’s ‘80s LP Flash. “Escape” is Jan’s only contribution but it’s the standout for me, even more than “People Get Ready.”
Andy, I recall quite well the publicity for Eddie Van Halen to produce his hero Allan Holdsworth’s new album Road Games in 1983. Warner Brothers were on board and the studio was booked and everything was a go until Eddie and Valerie Bertinelli decided to get married and go on their honeymoon leaving all those guys in the lurch. Don Landee was the only person who could get it recorded and they decided to make it a mini-album aka EP. It’s still great but Allan was devastated when he found out EVH wasn’t coming and then Allan signed with Enigma for Metal Fatigue (1985)
I have Miles Davis’ albums. I have a Weather Report album. I have Lenny White albums. I have Bill Laswell albums. I have a Jan Hammer album. I have Jeff Beck albums. How come I do not have any of these albums? What is wrong with me?
Are Jazz Rock and Fusion the same music?
Thanks and get well soon.
Thank you!
David Sancious &TONE = (TRUE STORIES ) & (THE Next STEP )
Alex Ligertwood was the vocalist with the Santana Band for more than 1 decade.
Andy, additionally: Tony Smith sings also on the famous album “Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group”. Greetings from Brazil! PS.: I saw both Tony and Fernando Saunders as members of John McLaughlin’s One Truth Band in my hometown, Porto Alegre, in 1979. Electric Dreams Tour.
Tail Spinnin', Weather Report 1975
We Want Miles, Miles Davies 1982
Modern Times, Steve Khan 1982
Road Games, Allan Holdsworth 1983
Big City, Lenny White 1977
Still Warm, John Scofield 1986
Life And Times, Billy Cobham 1976
Basslines, Bill Laswell 1983
There And Back, Jeff Beck 1980
Melodies, Jan Hammer 1977
I bought that Stanley Clarke LP at the Norfolk NEX...as I was getting in to Jazz. Had I heard of SC? No...the album cover was just CAF & I loved that he played electric & URB. A Classic/iconic Jazz Fusion album in every sense. I bought NO MYSTERY, BIRDS OF FIRE, & MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER soon after. Kudos to the whoever the Gov't employee/buyer was at that time. I assume they were a reader of DOWNBEAT. ;-)
I think you knocked it out of the park again Andy most of those albums I don't have except of course Jeff Beck my own everything he's got up to get to our shop and I bought them as they were released so they're all first pressings he is extremely my go to Jazz rock guitarist and as far as Jan Hammer I'm ashamed to say I don't own any solo albums by them what I do have is him playing with Jeff Beck band Al Di Meola bloody brilliant as you all say on the other side of the pond thanks again and I am definitely going to be keeping my eyes open for more of these albums hope you get the feeling better and I was a little shocked that you all eat pizza over there I thought that's why I was Americans are fat
“Just got up and had a packet of prawn cocktail crisps “ 😂 great line
Ah....at last....Tale Spining!!! Big City....superb!!! My favourite later day Miles....We Want Miles.... plus Still Warm, Life and Times, Road Games, There and Back.....so many of my personal favourites....
BTW as well as working with Brian Auger, Alex Ligertwood sang and played guitar with Santana for many years.....
Love the Geoff Love in the background....I love his Western Themes album tho....😂 Get well soon....keep taking the tablets!!!
I also like Observations and reflections…
This is a good run down Andy - not the ones you've talked about a trillion times before (you need to keep a list 😀) - only jesting my friend.
I certainly didn't click on this video expecting to hear an Allan Holdsworth album described as pizza-esque
It is Psychodelic, it Rocks, has Violin, it is improvised, lots of Blue Notes and is my Desert Island Record:
Odysee by James Blood Ulmer with Warren Benbow and Charles Burnham.
Not only great Jazzrock but also the quintessential Americana Record and one of the best Records of the 80ties and more importantly of all Times.
Every Household needs it on CD, Vinyl and as Download.
It cures all Diseases and makes you listen and dance at the same Time.
(And No! I am not paid to write this)
Im still waiting for the ten best porn soundtracks from the 70s
Schizophonic by Robben Ford.
Not kidding 😉
hard to judge when people were watching 2/3 minutes at a time
@@colinburroughs9871 Having five , six moments where the film really starts sure does not help.
Get well Andy!!
Crikey, I've got that LP behind you. And the Stanley Clarke. Then nothing!
Thank You!
"We want Miles" one of Miles Davis greatest albums.
Incredible list. I'm ashamed to say that after 52 years of drumming and music, I've never listened to Jan Hammer's Melodies. A bit embarrassing for me. I'm downloading it straight away.
"The burning one is Between the Thighs" is a rather interesting sentence.
There is good Canterbury fusion in the 60s.
bill evans is a sax player? i thought he played piano?
I appreciate the original intention of Weather Report to always solo and never solo”, coming out of the acid-tinged, open-ended approach of Miles and others. Obviously this sometimes worked beautifully in a kind of synergy but as often as not,(even by Zawinul’s estimation) resulted in live performances that fell into endless noodling eventually failing to coalesce into anything memorable. So I was disappointed to see
Them Move towards more structured composition. In the end it lead to their best albums.
Hey! What about (God help me) Andrew Lloyd Webber - Variations?
There, I said it. Reason is, it was that album that kick started the whole thing off for me - just hooked me and set me forth on the eternal quest for Music That Sounds Weird, But Strangely Satisfying.
Surely worth a mention?
To further explain, quite why I do not know...this was the first of 15 ingrown toenails between ages 14-26 which I had procedures to remove them. To remove them they numb your big toe by sticking a needle directly into the top of it and on both sides of the base. After they do it, they stick a toothpick wrapped in cloth coated with acid to kill the nails base on each side. Well after 15 attempts the roots finally died and I haven't had one in 30 years. But I still occasionally listen to Jazz Rock. It's like phantom pain.
Hiromi Time Control is a great album.
I'm not sure how you can define "Jazz Rock" as a distinct genre. Jazz may be the river that runs through it, but this list meanders into Fusion, Prog, Funk, and some have no connection to Rock. Granted, this is Andy's list from his British Prog drummer perspective. There are many American Rock bands and albums that are clearly Jazz oriented Rock, and stretch back to the 60s. Out of Sight and Sound by The Free Spirits, Metal Man Has Lost His Wings by Captain Beefheart, Hot Rats by Frank Zappa, Chicago Transit Authority, by Chicago, Caravanserai by Santana, and Uncle Meat by the Mothers of Invention to name a few.
Of course, this video should include the safety warning "no ethnic flattened third notes were harmed during the making of this film"!
I think Astral Weeks is a good genre bender that might be a bit overrated.
Burnt the bloody pizza......
"Sounds like The Police playing jazz rock with no singing!" A strong endorsement considering the playing skills of the Police. Sting was of course a good singer too but maybe not a jazz singer.
50 minutes to learn what are your top ten choices? Come on, some of us have a life you know. Just please print the list and get on with it.
ua-cam.com/video/20q7IAs_v8M/v-deo.html Jan Hammer Group - Don't You Know (Even Longer Edit)
Brian Auger is one of my all time heroes and definitely a candidate for a full retrospective video Andy???
I sent him a message. I would love to interview the man. Massively underated
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer One way in is via his son Karma who seems to manage his affairs, I corresponded with him a bit a while back. Yes Brian is utterly irrepressible, a force of nature, and he really made the Hammond cool for a new era with his particular harmonic approach. Loved that Jubilee record and gig he did with Klaus Doldinger. On that note, if you haven’t already, Klaus and Passport is another monster body of fusion deserving of review? And people rave about ELP but they should check out Brian’s album Streetnoise for some serious prog Hammond! I have a weakness for the Trinity as it featured Gary Boyle, he of Isotope fame, another favourite of mine.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer And whilst I am blathering, I take it from your recent video that you too are a Ray Gomez fan? I loved him from the early days and religiously sought out every recording and video I could of him. My favourites are of course Narada’s Garden of Love Light album and also the live Stanley Clarke album with the incredible Gerry Brown on drums. I tracked down his ad hoc manager some years ago, she is a lady in New York, and periodically she would update me on Ray’s battle with his ongoing demons. We both lived in hope for new music, but sadly it seems we have to treasure his old recordings instead. Maybe Ray could be a subject of a video review too? Cheers🤘🏻
Both Augner and Carr are fantastic.
Great idea!
Jeff Beck's There and Back, I bought that when it came out, wonderful!
JOHN SCOFIELD BLUE MATTER & LOUD JAZZ ***** ***** / Gino' Vannelli =BROTHER TO BROTHER WHOLE LP ********** !! !!
Love the Simon Phillips story. Gret minds
Way back in 1981 i went to see Al di Meola in the Hamersmith Odeon with Steve Gadd expected on drums. However Gadd was ill and with the shortest of notice Simon Phillips stepped in. Absolutely nailed it ..i'll never forget seeing the set up , a red twin bass drum Tama kit ... Simon Phillips is way up there ...
Great to hear Lenny White getting some love.
Feel better Andy
Venusian Summer is as cool of a record as that phase of fusion cooked up
Lenny White is such an insane drummer and a great composer as well. I've got to get more of his work.
uberjam is my current fave scofield band/project,where he mainly plays a telecaster in a funky/bluesy/jazzy style ,differnt from his chorusy sound,theres 2 uberjam albums if i remember
LENNY WHITE GROUP = ASTRAL PIRATES LP
John Martyn "Live at Leeds"
Danny Thompson on the bass
John Stevens on drums
Outside in
Fluid
Staggering
Free
Don't you guys know 'nuffin?
Existentially yours.......
Bill Laswell is a great underrated musician.
I promoted him 1988 in Zürich with Ronald Shannon Jackson and James Blood Ulmer (available on Bandstand) so he can’t be underrated!
Sure his Records with Herbie Hancock are Electro Boogie and Funk and no Jazzrock Fusion but I think he made a lot of Dough!
I know I sound like an idiot saying this, but can you please make a video explaining exactly what the difference is between JAZZ ROCK and FUSION.
I second that.
@@misterknightowlandco Hello!
@@SpookeyRuben howdy!
my take is that jazz rock contained a fair share of vocals (think of bands such as Colosseum, Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears etc) whilst fusion was a lot more instrumental and perhaps a little more experimental and a little less melodic (think of Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles etc) but let Andy explain this perhaps better than i can.
@@JosiMorreale Why’d he put Weather Report on this list tho? - i’d say Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Deep Purple are Jazz Rock: bluesy, groovy, fiery rock w/ vocals -- Anything w/ fusion chords should be classified as FUSION. I think Andy’s WAY OFF here. TBH.
John Scofield =BLUE MATTER & LOUD JAZZ !! !!***** *****
I didn’t know jazz rock was a thing ( how ignorant of me ) , I just think of frank zappa when I hear the phrase
Melodies is an awful album
yes,there and back is the end of a trilogy,not as strong as the 2 before it,but still a bloody great album
Ah Stanley Clarke, the greatest one-off line-up!!!! Total masterpiece!!
Billy Connors!!!!!!
And Journey to love
Great to see Still Warm getting some love….ive always said it should be taught in every music school. Great vid …thanks Andy
...any album with Don Grolnick is a keeper.
Stanley Clarke solo Lp's were lambasted back in the day, arguably even worse than the Ron Carter, Richard Davis, Jaco Pastorius solo efforts, to name some more mainstream characters. Vitous made some fine ones on ECM, seems tricky for bass players to lead units !
Stanley Clarke, Journey to Love, School Days...masterpieces
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer School Days was arguably the nadir, it used to be tough to sell it for 29 cents, now with the hipster buyers you can get 2$ for it. It is archetypal light fusion - a note in search of a purpose!
Great choices! The Simon Phillips story is priceless. I didn’t see Jan Hammer / Melodies or Bill Laswell / Basslines coming - - Wonderful well informed selections.
Oh, and feel better!
The Eyewitness early albums are a must...all 3 LPs are framed on my wall. IIRC, not a Japanese-only release. BLADES is US, MODERN TIMES is the import.
ROADGAMES, another killer. "Water On The Brain"???? Insane.
Im 64years old was listening to most of this music in the 8th grade ✌️
Same here Kent! 👍
I feel like Jazz-Rock was more or less burned out by the 80's. I would have picked a completely different ten, mostly from 1974 to 1980. That's the beauty if personal lists.
Well done 👏, amazing episode , day begins with Stanley Clarke breathing 🔥 on his S/T album , breathtaking stuff ❤
I wanna see the BLACK PiZZA...... better than the Black page??!@#!?!?
I was wondering if you were going to single out Jan's Moog solo in "Who Are They" and then....ah, you did. I still think that you are having us on about that album, but that track is on my desert Island imaginary compilation.
Another fun video, especially the "Space Boogie" anecdote.
Good video Andy, I've never heard of Allan Holdsworth until I subscribed to your channel. I do remember seeing Road Games but not picking it up. Jeff Berlin lives in my city of Nashville, I ought to look him since I'm a bassist also.
Tailspinning is my fav WR record! I listen to it more than any other by them. B/w the thighs is totally burning just as you said! (Burning thighs…😉)
Good to hear about some of the less talked about stuff. Impeccable selection. Hope you get back to top form soon Andy.
Indeed. And I, too, agree that blackened pizza is a real issue that needs to be heard more.
13:10 hilarious. I can totally relate to this, when I was teaching large course during the pandemic and my daughter came in asking whatever. (Great list!).
IMHO
Placebo, Secret Oyster, Nucleus, Weather report, Out of focus, Missus Beastly, Pekka Pohjola, Return to forever, Brainchild( brass rock), Passport, Solution, Sunbirds, Emergency, Sahara, Brand X, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, If, Subject ESQ, Catapilla ...
I first heard Ndugu on Jean-Luc Ponty's album Upon The Wings of Music. Very powerful and creative drumming indeed! And yes, he also played on Michael Jackson's classic Billy Jean.
To viewers outside of the UK, a packet of prawn and cocktail crisps is traditional medicine in the Midlands of England.
German Jazz Rock is the best in the classic era -70s - followed by the Scandinavians. Check it out if you don´t believe. But here is a list of ssuggestions more "world-open" (omg.. :)
- Miles Davis - Get up with it
- Pat Metheny Group - Travels
- Thomas Almqvist - The Journey
- Osamu Kitajima - Osamu
- Danny Gottlieb - Aquamarine
- Energit - s/t
- Yutaka - s/t
- Greg Foat - The Mage
- Scope - Scope II (1974)
- Embryo - Embryo´s Rache
Cheers!
4:43 they mentioned you on their podcast when discussing Van Morrison . Tim said that he's gonna have a word with his drummer who thinks that astral weeks is the worst album of all time
Small note on the first version of the Jan Hammer Group (still with Jerry Goodman): Dough Rauch was the bassist withTony Smith already on drums.
That’s Stanley Clarke album is dynamite! ❤ The Williams drumming is propulsive…
Question, @andyedwards,... what's your definition of "Jazz Rock"? Thinking: John Abercrombie's "Getting There"; Elements (Mark Egan & Danny Gottlieb); all three Bill Connors solo recordings. You didn't define what you called "Jazz Rock",... :-(
I mean,... REALLY, @andyedwards... You couldn't even TRY to voice, and speak in another person's character? With respect to you playing someone else's kit?
Lopsy Lu I must have played that song hundreds of times over the years, it has something in the feel of it. I wonder if Freeway Jam was inspired by this track.