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    Andy is a drummer, producer and educator. He has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant and played on classic prog albums by Frost and IQ.
    As a drum clinician he has played with Terry Bozzio, Kenny Aronoff, Thomas Lang, Marco Minneman and Mike Portnoy.
    He also teaches drums privately and at Kidderminster College

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  • @dbarker7794
    @dbarker7794 11 місяців тому +2

    What a great year it was!
    Good list. I bought most of these albums. Thanks for the memories.

  • @herculesrockefeller8969
    @herculesrockefeller8969 Рік тому +5

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, for mentioning SWEETNIGHTER! This is my favorite WR album, no doubt, I loved it the first time I heard it, and still love it 45 years later. It's great driving on the freeway at night, and you're just cruising.
    Thanks also for mentioning Terje Rypdal, he doesn't get talked about enough, neither does Coryell, or Bill Conners.
    Also, Sextant, and his "Mwandishi" period (all the black guys were adopting African names at this time, like Mganga, Jabali, etc.), is great, and "Flood", "Thrust", really adventurous. Also feature a great funk guitarist, Wah-Wah Watson!, if you watch him on UA-cam, he is so tasty and cool.

  • @stefanredin854
    @stefanredin854 Рік тому +2

    Excellent analysis Andy👍❤️

  • @kcydm9725
    @kcydm9725 Рік тому +4

    Yes Terje Rypdal !!!
    Perfect list and yes a video about ECM and Fusion, could be really interesting.

  • @timhays332
    @timhays332 Рік тому +4

    Saw Mahavishnu very early on in Waterville Maine - just before their debut in NYC. Kind of a warm up gig - early 1971. I was a 17 year old bassist into blues/rock and was blown away! Changed me, and I did go on to a music career, btw, in a touring funk/dance band. At that seminal gig in the Waterville Armory, I did manage to even sneak backstage - John M was actually pissed at the crowd, who were expecting blues, and heard the future - and had no idea how to react to it.

  • @nkkado
    @nkkado 6 місяців тому +1

    So good!!! Thanks for pointing out the urbaniak albums (I count future talk by Urszula as a personal top 10 fusion favorites.) And the synopsis on m.o. is dead-on

  • @syn707
    @syn707 Рік тому

    Beautifully done Andy. Looking forward to this weeks output.

  • @JackJenningsGuitarist
    @JackJenningsGuitarist Рік тому +1

    Really excellent video especially the summary at the end. You've talked about the foundation of Mahavishnu before but this time was particularly brilliant in bringing the whole picture together.

  • @arnaudb.7669
    @arnaudb.7669 Рік тому +3

    1- Mahavishnu Orchestra : Birds of Fire
    2- Area : Arbeit Macht Frei
    3- Julian Priester : Love, Love
    4- Return to Forever : Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
    5- Herbie Hancock : Head Hunters
    6- Soft Machine : Seven
    7- Billy Cobham : Spectrum
    8- McLaughlin/Santana : Love Devotion Surrender
    9- Weather Report : Sweetnighter
    10- Santana : Welcome
    Keep up the good work Andy!

    • @bennievargas2673
      @bennievargas2673 Рік тому

      Thanks. I didn't want to have to skip ahead to find them

    • @arnaudb.7669
      @arnaudb.7669 Рік тому

      @@bennievargas2673 it s not Andy's list ;o)

    • @ramoncardinali
      @ramoncardinali Рік тому

      Arbeit Macht Frei is perhaps my favorite of 1973. Super explosive band with amazing vocals.

    • @arnaudb.7669
      @arnaudb.7669 Рік тому +1

      @@ramoncardinali absolutely agree.

  • @Dex619
    @Dex619 6 місяців тому

    I thought I was the only one that knew about Terje Rypdal. What a great album. Thanks for turning others on to it. I hope they can find it.

  • @kzustang
    @kzustang Рік тому +1

    Hey all, couldn't get on time for the chat. Sorry for missing out. Great video!

  • @richfrank8540
    @richfrank8540 Рік тому +1

    Thanks, Andy. Love your channel. One of your best ever posts. Never knew John M took Miles to see the Monterey Pop film, which introduced Miles to Hendrix!

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      John said this in an interview...

    • @richfrank8540
      @richfrank8540 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer I had the pleasure of meeting John once in the late 1970s backstage before a jaw dropping Shakti show. He was very gracious. But I've only seen him twice again -- during the Electric Guitarist tour and Belo Horizonte tour (at Carnegie Hall). A pity I was too young to see the original Mahavishnu Orch live.

  • @matthewjachimiec
    @matthewjachimiec Рік тому +1

    Great video! Your channel has only continued to deepen my love for jazz-rock fusion.
    P.S. Just remember LINda McCartney playing a GLOCKenspiel and you’ll be set! 😁

  • @johannhauffman323
    @johannhauffman323 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for all you do Andy.
    You put a fear in me when you had on list “Between Nothingness & Eternity”.
    I thought Birds of Fire might be forgotten.
    I think it was at this time the compositions and the conceptual vision of John and Billy came together. I feel this was the time they were really really having fun.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley Рік тому +3

    Great list. Nobody talks about Terje Rypdal, I had that album and a couple others from the Norwegian guitarist the seventies.

  • @kevincorrigan7893
    @kevincorrigan7893 Рік тому +2

    Now I want to hear the Ferrets playing Abstract Jazz Noise. :D Thanks for the rundown and for the recommendation of that first Terje Rypdal. I listened to Terje in high school but it was his later ECM recordings. Great vide.

    • @doctorpatient519
      @doctorpatient519 Рік тому

      Abstract Jazz Noise you seek?
      Borbetomagus: electric guitar, sax and sax and effects

  • @johncleary6126
    @johncleary6126 Рік тому +2

    Alladdin Sane by David Bowie for me.The title track,Time and Lady Grinning Soul is of the highest art.Mike Garson's piano work is outstanding and very jazz.Great vid once again Andy

  • @Pcrimson1
    @Pcrimson1 Рік тому +1

    Wow! Thanks Andy. This is an eduction for me. The only album on this list I honestly knew was Spectrum. I have a lot to listen to. I knew many of the names, but never listened to them. I have a lot of exploring to do, thanks for starting the path...

    • @Pcrimson1
      @Pcrimson1 Рік тому

      Guess what came in the mail today. Between Nothingness & Eternity. I love it! It reminds me of other fusion albums, but WILDER. Unfortunately, I will have to listen to it mostly in the car. The wife can only handle Metheny and Luc Ponty. I'll put it on right after Gentle Giant, another band too extreme for her...

  • @interstellaroverdriven6450
    @interstellaroverdriven6450 Рік тому +5

    Michael White's "The Land of Spirit and Light" is not only one of the absolute best jazz fusion albums of 1973 but is one of the most underrated in the entire jazz world. For those that may not be familiar: a synergistic cross section of Mahavishnu Orchestra (sans the electrical fire power), Zappa-esque classical & avant-garde, with a healthy dose of the spiritual jazz Pharoah Sanders was doing around the time of 'Thembi'. Upon reexamination this morning it goes to the top of my list. A must listen.

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      Fantastic albim of spiritual jazz, but not sure there is much Rock on there...

    • @interstellaroverdriven6450
      @interstellaroverdriven6450 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer Cecil McBee's continuously pulsating rhythmic basslines and Bob King's classical guitar flourishes are far more "rock" than anything found on 'Sweetnighter", which in addition to being absolutely brilliant is more hip hop/trance than anything rock, especially the standout tracks Boogie Woogie & 125th.

  • @VincentBautista365
    @VincentBautista365 Рік тому +1

    I own and love 8 out of the 10 albums you chose! I think I heard Terje Rydal's "What Comes After" once? I need to go back and listen to it. Michal Urbaniak's "Fusion" is new to me. I just found it on Spotify and will give it a listen today! I enjoy your channel immensely. I love the education and humor you bring to your channel.

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +2

      Check out Fusion III too...one of the greatest fusion albums ever recorded.

    • @VincentBautista365
      @VincentBautista365 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer Will do! Thanks, Andy.

  • @brianshank1419
    @brianshank1419 Рік тому +1

    Andy, I discovered your channel within the last month or so, and absolutely cannot stop watching your videos! Your commentary on music is extremely insightful. You've also successfully introduced me to jazz fusion, which I'm still learning about. Do you consider Tommy Bolin's solo work like "Flying Fingers" jazz fusion? If you haven't already, I would love to hear your thoughts about his solo work in a future video. In any event, thank you for all that you do, and be well! Cheers!

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      Yes...and check out TB on Spectrum by Billy Cobham and on Mind Transplant by Alphonse Mouzon

  • @Cowcodude
    @Cowcodude Рік тому +1

    Well, I just went out and grabbed that MIchal Urbaniak album.
    Saw it at the local record shop yesterday and thought it looked questionable, lo and behold it turns up in this video.
    Thanks for the tip!

  • @matthewjachimiec
    @matthewjachimiec Рік тому +2

    Honorable mention: Countdown to Ecstasy by the great Steely Dan- the first Dan record I ever heard, the record that made me obsessed with Steely Dan, and perhaps still my favorite record of theirs

  • @davidstafford9921
    @davidstafford9921 Рік тому +2

    I really enjoyed your insight into the history of Mahavishnu Orchestra. My first exposure was "Birds of Fire" when it was first released. I think I was 15. My friend and I (both musicians, btw) had read an incredible review in Down Beat Magazine, so naturally we had to find out what all the excitement was about. We got the record and listened to it together. Within two minutes we realized we'd entered some other universe where music worked quite differently. We were absolutely stunned. That album, along with "Inner Mounting Flame" and "Between Nothingness & Eternity," changed forever the way I think about music. By the way, the most climactic guitar solo ever performed must be McLaughlin's on "Sister Andrea" on "Between Nothingness & Eternity." It's clearly an impressive solo, but what really makes it work is the entire band working toward a tremendous crescendo at the end of the solo. Listen to it with this in mind and see if you agree. Cheers, Andy!

    • @pjjmsn
      @pjjmsn Рік тому

      I agree. I know what you mean when you said you entered another universe. Mahavishnu showed me a new universe bith inside and outside of me.

  • @Spock105
    @Spock105 Рік тому +1

    Will surely check them out . Only have 3 from this list .
    Others I have are from Spyro Gyra , Bruford , Annette Peacock,Al di Meola, Airto Moreira , McLaughlin & Brand X .

  • @flame-sky7148
    @flame-sky7148 10 місяців тому +2

    Really like your list, I would only include Santana’s Welcome album in 1973 on the list which includes Flame Sky. I agree The Life Divine is the pinnacle of jazz fusion and Flame Sky is almost there.

  • @lupcokotevski2907
    @lupcokotevski2907 Рік тому +2

    I have the vinyl of the debut album of 19 year old Finnish guitar virtuoso Jukka Tolonen, Tolonen! (1971). Well worth a listen. He is also an excellent pianist which was his first instrument.

  • @rk41gator
    @rk41gator Рік тому +2

    Love 'Welcome'. I think my niece borrowed it. Need to call it up and listen to it again! But 'Birds of Fire' is one of my favorite albums.

  • @devereauxclandestine1272
    @devereauxclandestine1272 Рік тому +1

    Great video Andy. Good to see Terje getting some appreciation! But most importantly please accept my deepest apologies for bringing up 'Space Jazz' on your RTF video. Rest assured I have mended my ways and no such atrocities will be committed in the future. No matter how funny they are.😁

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      Thank you for that. It inspired that silly rant here which pepped this video up...

    • @devereauxclandestine1272
      @devereauxclandestine1272 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer That was a top notch rant from a 'Space Jazz' survivor'!

  • @jeffwambold1196
    @jeffwambold1196 Рік тому +1

    great analysis.. was my fav band when i was 19 still the best music ever made

  • @visog
    @visog Рік тому +1

    That is the most specific title on UA-cam - looking forward to it.

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому +1

    In 71 the Mahavishnu simply blew us all away. They had just a tad of radio play as FM radio came into play. Pretty much every musician had to contemplate their musical direction after seeing the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I saw Weather Report in 1973 at the Whiskey a Go Go, Sweetnighter lineup and they blew the house down.

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому

    Yes, please play the gosh-darn albums, thank you very much.

  • @zootallures6470
    @zootallures6470 Рік тому +3

    The two guitar solos on Life Divine just blow your mind. Amazing track.
    And I agree, Dream is the peak of their work.

    • @tonypeake467
      @tonypeake467 Рік тому

      On the money there Zoot. I would also refer you to "Tribute to Jack Johnson" a top ten selection of the late great Jeff Beck RIP, who coincidentally has one of my top 10 fusion albums "Wired" and "Devotion" by McLaughlin

    • @zootallures6470
      @zootallures6470 Рік тому

      @@tonypeake467 Wired is my favorite Jeff Beck album.
      I like Devotion for the input of… Larry Young 😉 but sometimes I find in too “dark.”

    • @pjjmsn
      @pjjmsn Рік тому

      What is amazing too is how different the styles are. Of my friends only I liked Mclaughlin's more. They prefered Carlos. It sounds like they are playing totally different scales.

    • @zootallures6470
      @zootallures6470 Рік тому +1

      @@pjjmsn Santana's solo is brilliant but I have always considered it as a "warm up" [mine] for McLaughlin's solo. 😂

  • @philjm3103
    @philjm3103 Рік тому +3

    Andy, Terje Rypdal is absolutely not obscure for me - I'm a huge fan and love loads of his stuff. He's never faltered, his latest album "Conspiracy" is awesome.

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      I meant that particular album is obscure

    • @philjm3103
      @philjm3103 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer you're right, but that's always been one of my favourite TR albums. There's an obscure youtuber called Jeff who was instrumental in getting me into TR. I'll post a link. ua-cam.com/video/Y2UIB3Sv1co/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/5MsVCr1I0Lo/v-deo.html

  • @samuelbrown2147
    @samuelbrown2147 11 місяців тому +1

    Must admit you are very right about space jazz my god

  • @goodknight37
    @goodknight37 Рік тому +1

    We’ll, I’m off to listen to Space Jazz🚀

  • @mariusz7733
    @mariusz7733 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for mentioning Urbaniak 👃

  • @ks4545
    @ks4545 Рік тому +1

    Steamed What Comes After. Then bought it. Thanks for that one! Now back to the rest of the video...

  • @FernandoPosse-nf5wy
    @FernandoPosse-nf5wy 3 дні тому

    Deodato"s Prelude and Two, Passport Looking Thru, Dedalus, Perigeo, Jukka Tolonen, Secret Oyster first album,

  • @doctorpatient519
    @doctorpatient519 Рік тому +2

    may I offer that the Tony Williams Lifetime -- started in '69 -- with Tony, McLaughlin and Larry Young, swinging, rocking out and improvising, paved the way for the Mahavishnu configurations that followed
    in NYC, WRVR (I originally wrote WKCR, which still is Columbia University's station) was the only full time jazz station and around '72 they were playing Rypdal's amazing "Silver Bird" and Michael Urbaniak (oor-BAHN-ee-ak) -"Good Times, Bad Times" regularly

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      Of course this is obvious but negates other parts of this story. Have you heard JM's contributions to Escalator Over The Hill...from 1969-70 this sounds much closer to Mahavishnu. And it is a mistake to think the sound came from JM completely. The rest of the band played a huge part.

    • @doctorpatient519
      @doctorpatient519 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer thank you, Sir for your reply ... I'll certainly check out your "Escalator" reference ... I still go back to the first 2 Lifetime albums for their power and rawness ... there are parts where you can hear JM's guitar signal (ground fault) humming and actually disconnecting in the midst of the furious ensemble work

    • @markcapofari8419
      @markcapofari8419 Рік тому

      And we can recall when RVR went off the air suddenly and were spinning the radio dials - asking each other what happened
      Les Davis and others knew their music and ushered us along

    • @doctorpatient519
      @doctorpatient519 Рік тому

      @@markcapofari8419 Mark- (sorry, Andy-I realize we're way off the Jazz-Rock theme here) thnx for filling in that blank in my mind of the evening host's name, Les Davis, who also broadcast some great live shows on their air ... if I may, do you recall the daytime host, Ed Beech, with his "Just Jazz" show? ... the great music he played would fill the electronics shop I was working at during that early 70s period ... he opened my ears to Tatum, Monk, Dolphy, Coryell and a whole bunch of important stuff

  • @philjm3103
    @philjm3103 Рік тому +1

    Andy, I've been loving and listening to Tutu for 35 years or more but have never, until now, checked out the violin player on that album, Urbaniak....thanks for the tip - I've discovered Constellation Live!

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      Check out Fusion III one of the greatest fusion albums ever

    • @philjm3103
      @philjm3103 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer I'm listening to it as I'm typing!

  • @GravyDaveNewson
    @GravyDaveNewson Рік тому +1

    one of my school friends had Hymn of the 7th Galaxy when we were at school. It was the only JazzRock album I had ever heard of at the time, I couldn't listen to it then and wish I had now.

  • @LuisSilva-yu6ty
    @LuisSilva-yu6ty Рік тому +1

    I agree 100%.
    Fusion lll is a Jazz-Rock/Fusion masterpiece.

  • @erikheddergott5514
    @erikheddergott5514 11 місяців тому +1

    I prefer every Guitar Loaded Miles Davis Records from 1969 to 1975 over all Jazz Rock Albums from the same Time, with the Exception of the first two Records of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the first 3 of Tony Williams Livetime. Those Guitars really rock my Brain, Soul and the Legs.

  • @samuelbrown2147
    @samuelbrown2147 11 місяців тому +1

    Last ten minutes of this are very important

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  11 місяців тому

      I often try to drop something alittle heavier at the end of my videos so that the real musos know to stick to the end...it doesn't always happen though. I make these videos up on the spot, know planning, and I'm hoping that something reveals itself by the end I did not consider before as that is quite exciting to document

  • @martinbroten9467
    @martinbroten9467 Рік тому +1

    I'm not saying that I disagree with the 1973 premise (I would never...), but my favorite jazz-rock year was 1976. That summer, before I started college, and I remember listening to nothing but "Romantic Warrior", "Wired", "Black Market" and "Unorthodox Behavior" - all released in '76. Fusion sort of drove off a cliff after that, but man what a year...

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      This is true with Fusion. As I say, Fusion was a bit later than prog

  • @paulcowham2095
    @paulcowham2095 Рік тому +1

    Another great video, thanks Andy :). Ps; lovely jumper, did you used to be a knitwear model as a child?

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      When I watched this video I thought I looked like a German submarine captain...ua-cam.com/video/kYz2nPE0BCk/v-deo.html

  • @pauldenby878
    @pauldenby878 Рік тому +1

    I did exactly what you told me to do.. dropped everything and went and listened to Space Jazz.. I need this in my life now!! I feel like a door has been opened (I am no longer alone in the universe). I feel cleansed

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому

      Clean like Chick, Stanley and John Travolta...

    • @richfrank8540
      @richfrank8540 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer If only they'd had prog mustaches at the time of this recording the power of the Space Jazz concept would have been more apparent!

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому +2

    The Last Fun Fact Ever: Jan Hammer is, in the word of the Hip, a Monster. I watched him from 20 feet away in Santa Monica in 1972 and he took us (like the entire band did) to another dimension. Watching (with the eyes) the Mahavishnu while their music separated your molecules convinced us that we had transported to another planet with this impossible band.

    • @pjjmsn
      @pjjmsn Рік тому

      I know what you mean!

  • @olliepops1124
    @olliepops1124 9 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic video, Andy. What do you think about the 73 album Les McCann release entitled Layers? I think it could be called a fusion album, no I’d make a stronger case for his release from two or three years earlier, Invitation To Openness, but Layers seems like it’s fusion to my ears.

  • @onsenkuma1979
    @onsenkuma1979 Рік тому +2

    Nice call Andy, on Terje Rypdal's 'What Comes After' and also Herbie Hancock's 'Sextant' (which I much prefer to 'Headhunters'). Another breakthrough ECM album from '73 is Eberhard Weber's 'The Colours of Chloe' - the first in a consecutive series of great albums that culminated in the extraordinary 'Fluid Rustle' (one of my top 10 ECM albums of all time). Honourable mentions also to Gary Burton 'The New Quartet' and Oregon 'Distant Hills' (jazz fusion sans the 'rock' element)...

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      Fluid Rustle...one of my top 10 albums. I did consider Chloe but thought it was not really jazz rock. EW creates his own brand of orchestral jazz. Burton and Oregon could well have made this list.

    • @olliepops1124
      @olliepops1124 9 місяців тому

      I am so with you about Sextant >Head Hunters. I could never figure out the Head Hunters adoration. Actually Head Hunters is the only Herbie solo album I don’t care for until probably the 1984 release of Sound-System. I could understand people stopping one album/year before that, but I actually have a lot of love for 1983’s Future Shock lol 🤷‍♂️

  • @narosgmbh5916
    @narosgmbh5916 Рік тому +4

    The 73 steely dan CTE has to be mentioned as a great jazzrock/rockjazz album

    • @interstellaroverdriven6450
      @interstellaroverdriven6450 Рік тому +1

      Great thing about that album is that they are loose enough to really sprawl out & jam but still tight as fuck. Gold Teeth and Boston Rag especially! And King of the World is one of the most terrifying songs ever written. Hard to pick between this and Royal Scam as my favourite!

  • @syn707
    @syn707 Рік тому +1

    McLauFFlin….thank you, Andy!. Make it easy on yourself.

  • @gregoryg3256
    @gregoryg3256 Рік тому +1

    🌠 Good List..I would put Spectrum as #1 on my list..but #2 isn't bad..I've gotta dive deeper into mahavishnu...& chameleon..is a classic , along with Stratus..& your very knowledge able... U ROCK⭐

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому

    Fun Things to Do: Play the album that Andy speaks of, from YT, as he talks.

  • @alternativepreacher4516
    @alternativepreacher4516 Рік тому +5

    Closer to funk I guess , but I love Fela Kuti's Gentleman.

    • @naderzekrya5238
      @naderzekrya5238 Рік тому +2

      That was a little unexpected but man, yeah absolutely!

    • @ganazby
      @ganazby Рік тому +2

      Agreed.

  • @davestephens6421
    @davestephens6421 Рік тому +2

    Well done Andy!!! Yes...Birds Of Fire and Spectrum defined the vocabulary...... I remember listening to both over and over again when they came out.....totally changed my life and then thru J Mc I started delving into Miles' back catalogue.....a truly life changing period of my life!!
    Interestingly very few people mention the period of Chick and Stanley when they performed with Stan Getz. Chick was writing for the band and performing material that would be played by the first incarnation of RTF. Some great videos on UA-cam of this band with Tony Williams on drums. I think that this is a very important period and also says a lot about Getz encouraging Chick...

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      You are correct, one of the great formations of the seventies.

  • @ganazby
    @ganazby Рік тому +1

    You really need to interview John.

  • @TheEleatic
    @TheEleatic Рік тому +1

    Lively and fascinating.

  • @GravyDaveNewson
    @GravyDaveNewson Рік тому +2

    King Crimson also toured with Aerosmith around that time. Fripp described them as a 'dreadful big willy band'. That's the funniest and truest thing he ever said.

  • @allangrant2713
    @allangrant2713 Рік тому +1

    What about British Jazz Rock of the 70s, 2 of my Favs Isotope and Gary Boyle and Brand X they are the main guys for me its amazing how as the years go by no-one speaks about British Jazz Rock its a pity as the Americans get most of the plaudits, but most quality Rock of all types the Brits RULE SUPREME. Come on Andy give us an EXCELLENT 60min show and educate us all, With Thanks

  • @pedrohorta6266
    @pedrohorta6266 Рік тому +1

    Such a great list, Andy!!! It's funny, because you're right, Miles Davis was often guilty for taking credit for other bandmates' songs (e.g., W. Shorter wrote so much of their 60s stuff), but according to John McLaughlin himself, it was Miles who nudged him to go solo. Apparently, John was happy to stay in Miles' band and didn't want to leave, content to maybe even doing Jack Johnson Part 2: Jack's Revenge, but no, Miles knew when/how to nuture REAL talent. Without that "nudge", maybe we would've never gotten Birds of Fire... Ironically, after John left Miles, after On the Corner, Miles' output would never be as grounbreaking or as "tight". One of my absolute favorite Miles/John McLaughlin moments is on the track "Go Ahead John" from Big Fun. The real credit here should go to Teo Macero, Miles' seminal producer, who did all that crazy fururistic tape splicing/looping "musique concrète" stuff, but specifically on this track-- that INSANE stereo panning on Jack DeJohnette's schizophrenic drumming, but also all that filtering and layering on both John's and Miles' solos-- John's solo here is one of the heaviest moments in guitar history. Newcomers to this track, listening to this track in headphones is a must. SO ahead of it's time. It's proto jungle/drum n bass/EDM. You should do a video on Teo. He's the George Martin of Jazz.

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      I agree with all that but JM was never in Miles' band, he only guested. His band was Lifetime. That didn't work because of band management and I now think it was artistically flawed too. Miles put JM in touch with new management and the rest is history

    • @pedrohorta6266
      @pedrohorta6266 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer Yes... that sounds right actually.

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому

    Another Fun Fact: the piano throughout Christo Redentor (Donald Byrd, A New Perspective), played by Herbie, is the most awesome minor blues piano ever recorded.

  • @DragoonOfTheMist
    @DragoonOfTheMist Рік тому +2

    Andy, great video.
    Don't know if you will be seeing this, but I just found out about a new Album from the trap artist Lil Yachty called Lets Start here. The guy basically transitioned from a rapper to a Pink Floyd/Tame Impala inspired rock album, albeit with the same autotune vocals. Its not as proggy as To Pimp A Butterfly, but few things are. It would be interesting to see your thoughts on it.

    • @interstellaroverdriven6450
      @interstellaroverdriven6450 Рік тому

      That sounds wildly intruiging! Are you a Run the Jewels/Killer Mike/EL-P fan by chance?

    • @DragoonOfTheMist
      @DragoonOfTheMist Рік тому

      @@interstellaroverdriven6450 Heard of them, but never ventured that far into their work. I know RTJ sampled that Gentle Giant song, Knots.
      Any reccomendations?

    • @interstellaroverdriven6450
      @interstellaroverdriven6450 Рік тому +1

      @@DragoonOfTheMist EL-P's 'Cancer 4 Cure' is a masterpiece, especially if you like spacey prog like Gong, Hillage, T-Dream and 'Sextant' era Herbie Hancock. The first two RTJ albums are really really excellent as well and follow a similar production style. Extremely hard to find is Killer Mike's 'R.A.P. Music' but it is also excellent. Hope you enjoy!

    • @DragoonOfTheMist
      @DragoonOfTheMist Рік тому

      @@interstellaroverdriven6450 Will do!

  • @Fontsman
    @Fontsman Рік тому +1

    Johnny Mac. Sorted!😀😀

  • @rk41gator
    @rk41gator Рік тому +1

    Weather Report was the best concert I have ever attended (except for Genesis)!

  • @peterbrickley6041
    @peterbrickley6041 Рік тому

    Can you do the best guitar , synthesizer space prog LPs from 70s? No vocals ..

  • @ganazby
    @ganazby Рік тому +1

    You’re pronouncing it 100% correctly, Andy: Ma-Glock-Lin (phonetically). I’m Irish. I know these things.

    • @PerryPapanier
      @PerryPapanier Рік тому

      Yeah but he is pronouncing DeJohnette wrong. Haha But that's ok as long as Andy is making these videos I'll be watching them.

  • @GravyDaveNewson
    @GravyDaveNewson Рік тому +1

    his friends call him Mac ;)

  • @douglasanderson8636
    @douglasanderson8636 Рік тому +1

    Sextant also has the coolest cover ever...just to be shallow.

  • @interstellaroverdriven6450
    @interstellaroverdriven6450 Рік тому +2

    Joe Henderson 'Multiple' deserves some respect here!

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      I did listen to that one for this video. Great album, but is it fusion?

    • @interstellaroverdriven6450
      @interstellaroverdriven6450 Рік тому +1

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer Hmmmmm. In retrospect I feel the same way about this album as I do McCoy Tyner's "Song for My Lady" and Michael White's "The Land of Spirit and Light". Same could be said for Pharoah Sanders' "Village of the Pharoahs" as well. I hear so much going on beyond jazz that I question the very genre I am listening to and the futility of even applying labels to music at all. I guess I classify these masterpieces as world fusion. Perhaps these exemplify the impact that fusion is having on more traditional jazz artists and helping them to expand their boundaries considerably.

  • @TheGenreman
    @TheGenreman Рік тому +1

    Sweetnighter is my favourite weather report album

  • @garyhitchcock3828
    @garyhitchcock3828 Рік тому

    Brand X Unorthodox Behaviour (1976) Morocon Roll (77) or their Product album (1979) all excellent JR albums

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому

    Fun Fact: Space Jazz is Xenu's fave album.

  • @rwaynewedgeworth3909
    @rwaynewedgeworth3909 5 місяців тому +1

    You good❤

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому

    New internet meme: Don't go there for the solos, go there for the disco!

  • @grahamhowes6904
    @grahamhowes6904 Рік тому +1

    Weather Report 830 - yes best jazz rock ever … but no Hatfield and the North?

  • @braveswin1
    @braveswin1 Рік тому +1

    You crack me up with the plea for us to go listen to Space Jazz. It's kinda like when you find expired milk in the fridge and you call your wife over and say, "This milk smells bad. Smell it." And then she smells it! Hell no, I'm not going to go listen to Space Jazz. I'll take your word for it.

  • @bennievargas2673
    @bennievargas2673 Рік тому +1

    Best Coltrane covers I've heard:

  • @csillasenviczky1726
    @csillasenviczky1726 Рік тому +1

    Deodato 2 the best of 1973

  • @bennievargas2673
    @bennievargas2673 Рік тому +1

    la fiesta by rtf is anything but lite

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому

    The Last Fun Fact, I Promise: I can play guitar like mister MacLocklin for 2.7 seconds at a time.

  • @martinbroten9467
    @martinbroten9467 Рік тому +2

    There's a video on here You Tube where John Mclaughlin pronounces his name as "Ma-gloff-lin". Seems your original pronunciation was correct. ua-cam.com/video/E639RwijZmo/v-deo.html

    • @naderzekrya5238
      @naderzekrya5238 Рік тому +1

      Thanks for that! This is a relief for me too, have always pronounced using "f" sound

  • @martinbravey6444
    @martinbravey6444 Рік тому +2

    I had a quick listen to 'Space Jazz' and yes, it is dire. But, for me, the accolade for worst spiritual jazz album must go to 'Journey to the East' by one time bassist Bill Plummer (& the Cosmic Brotherhood). I actually bought this album in the early 70s - it was probably in a bargain bin, I liked the cover (still do) and I was into all things eastern. Is was also on the Impulse! label, for goodness sake. Then I took it home and played it - Oh my giddy aunt! WTF is this? Despite its awfulness, it is one of the most prized pieces in my vinyl collection. Check it out if you dare - ua-cam.com/video/IAmEYGqgaLE/v-deo.html

    • @davidbennett2339
      @davidbennett2339 Рік тому +1

      Big thumbs up, very enlightening.

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      I like the Bill Plumber album....

    • @martinbravey6444
      @martinbravey6444 Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer You do? So do I, in a perverse way. Superficially it resembles Alice Coltrane's wonderful 'Journey in Satchidananda', but with Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins on top of it. Nice!

  • @contrabandivory
    @contrabandivory Рік тому +1

    Linda McCartney playing a glockenspiel. I like your pronunciation a little more

  • @MisterWondrous
    @MisterWondrous Рік тому +1

    So it is Terhay and not Terzh Rypdol, thank you. I will quit making a fool of myself when I speak his name. Urbaniak I knew only because my gf at the time was in the record bidniz.
    LDS by MO rather S&M is a beast. Cobham's opening minute on Life Divine is, to me, to most impressive piece of drumming I have heard, before or since. The guitars are equally brilliant. I heard side two once though I often replay Life Divine. Once made a video with that title.
    "Fuzak"...what a great term for moribund, dead theatre, fusion. Thanks for Sweetnighter. Will be new to me, as is too much of their work. I owned Heavy Weather, and saw them in the '80s, only weeks before or after seeing Renaissance/Al Dimeola, in the same venue in Charlotte, NC. I've stolen drum licks from Teentown. Shh...
    Please do review the L. Ron Hubbard "Space Jazz" thing. Blown away that Chick would have been taken in. Or Stan. My only connection with Chick, however, is most memorable. I was walking on the lawn of a great estate in leafy suburban Massachusetts, which is now called the DeCordova Museum, when I heard music coming from the wood. I followed it and found Chick and Gary Burton jamming away at a little amphitheatre that was created amid nature. There were people sitting on little benches and the air was sweet with medicinal smoke.
    I've seen John and Carlos separately, and when I saw Carlos, Eric walked on, and they played a long spiritual piece. John I saw at Berklee playing duets with a beautiful young Chinese girl on piano to a small intimate audience. Don't remember her name sadly. Great show today. Took many notes and shared it on the fb. May peace and warmth return to the world. Cheers!

    • @AndyEdwardsDrummer
      @AndyEdwardsDrummer  Рік тому +1

      Some tales there....

    • @zootallures6470
      @zootallures6470 Рік тому +1

      Terye Ripdal would be the closest.

    • @MisterWondrous
      @MisterWondrous Рік тому

      @@AndyEdwardsDrummer In Charlotte, in the American South, at that time, I was about the only one who had or listened to Prog or Fusion, but I always figured the future would be its friend.

  • @tommonk7651
    @tommonk7651 Рік тому +2

    Mc Gloff Lin.... 😁

    • @naderzekrya5238
      @naderzekrya5238 Рік тому

      Actually I say "Mc Kloff Lin"...! 😁

    • @tommonk7651
      @tommonk7651 Рік тому

      @@naderzekrya5238 Or maybe "Mc Loff Lin".... 😁😁

    • @naderzekrya5238
      @naderzekrya5238 Рік тому

      @@tommonk7651 that's the one yes! 👍

  • @kzustang
    @kzustang Рік тому +1

    I prefer to say the names of people the way they pronounce it themselves.

  • @brendaveselich3086
    @brendaveselich3086 Рік тому +1

    Angelina Jordan has an album coming out this year, she will be at the top of this list.

  • @bennievargas2673
    @bennievargas2673 Рік тому +1

    I think John calls himself McLaughlin (the wrong way) . He's not Scottish.

  • @elbib2446
    @elbib2446 Рік тому +1

    its actually pronounced terry,i call him terge for years

    • @zootallures6470
      @zootallures6470 Рік тому

      If you type "terje" in Google Translate, Norwegian to Norwegian you will hear the correct pronunciation.

    • @elbib2446
      @elbib2446 Рік тому

      @@zootallures6470 im just going on what a scandanavian fusion fan i met in spain told me,i asked if he was into terge,my pronunciation,and he said oh you mean terry

    • @zootallures6470
      @zootallures6470 Рік тому

      @@elbib2446 👍
      [I could be a Scandinavian fusion fan too]
      - when you meet yet another Norwegian person, could be a hip-hop fan, just ask about the pronunciation.

    • @elbib2446
      @elbib2446 Рік тому

      @@zootallures6470 i shall,ill also ask if he has a sense of humour

    • @bennievargas2673
      @bennievargas2673 Рік тому +1

      Turgid

  • @ericarmstrong6540
    @ericarmstrong6540 Рік тому +1

    Space Jazz sounds awful. I need to check it out.

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 Рік тому +1

    2023 is the year of the practical downfall of Scientology, by the way.