Fusion - CD Reviews (474)
There are some musical structures in their purest forms that are just far too awesome for words. The total experience that is Stanley Clarke & friends is such a structur…
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I had the pleasure of reviewing Akinyele’s Black Magic - The Cyber Jazz Experience. I find that album to be a better production, although I suppose it can be sa…
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Richard Hart, veteran jazz guitarist, incorporates highly dynamic and innovative grooves for his latest studio album Fearless Shores. Hart’s musical style is diverse…
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Of all the bands that made the news/broke the mold/made the biggest splashes in the heyday/glory days of the first wave of Fusion (1969-1974), the UK outfit Soft Machine…
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Jazz guitarist Richard Hart has devised new concoctions for fusion buffs by developing dynamic interactions of cool jazz elements, hard-bop motifs, smooth funk grooves, …
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Caution: Read this whole review before deciding whether to buy this CD. "The project 'Around Jaco’.... has a density of its own.... " Thus states the promotional materia…
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Like many performers of the fusion/free jazz ilk, The Daniele Cavallanti Electric Unit composes music that enables them to indulge in their personalized idioms and indiv…
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Veteran bass guitarist Daniel Lucca’s album Cruise Control is one of the best jazz fusion albums you will ever pick up. Lucca has fused jazz and rock so beautiful…
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Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Jam Camp is a heavy laden, guitar-driven, no nonsense, collective force. Their latest CD, Jam Camp Live!, is a brilliant showc…
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I wasn’t quite sure what to make of David Wright’s Dajinosaurus CD. The cover art consists of a goofy canine mug shot, the credits are cluttered with production…
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Revered Southern California session guitarist Michael Landau has performed with a who’s who of pop, rock and jazz musicians. He steps out on his own with other notable a…
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Fabled guitar hero and bandleader Carlos Santana was always in a class of his own. As a guitar stylist, his influence and singular technique warrants no additional elabo…
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Every so often, an album like Hectic Watermelon’s The Great American Road Trip comes along to give me hope that jazz-rock fusion hasn’t collapsed like a poorly-…
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Franc O’Shea is a UK-based electric bassist and composer who has immersed himself in the diverse worlds of Flamenco, jazz and Middle Eastern/North African ethnic music. …
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It should come as no surprise to any "Jazz Cat" that Canada has been producing tons of incredible new progressive jazz bands and Unicorn Records has been responsible for…
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Homing - A Feeling in Nine Parts is the latest collection of highly appealing, completely instrumental compositions of indeterminate genre from J. A. Granelli a…
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The biggest treat for a music reviewer is to receive a really good CD by a musician or group that you are not at all familiar with. Fabien Degryse’s CD titled, prosaical…
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This latest offering from one of jazz fusion’s most illustrious and accomplished guitarists is chock full of the style that has made him such a powerful and mesmerizing phe…
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Strunz and Farah have proved time and again why they are widely regarded as pioneers and the epitome of world acoustic fusion and intriguing diversity. They have been toget…
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Carlos Santana is most notably the most recognized name in rock history. His contributions to the genres of rock, R&B, pop, fusion jazz and Latin music are phenomenal. I…
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