Fusion - CD Reviews (474)
When it comes to the Golden Age of fusion, let's get arbitrary: 1968-1974. Many speak with reverence of Miles, Gary Burton, Larry Coryell, the (original) Mahavishnu Orch…
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Recorded in 1996 for the obscure Audioimage record label, now remastered and reissued by a prominent rock-fusion entity, this recording conveys master bassist and stick …
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Dave Milne has an incredible story about how he practically willed himself back to good health from a debilitating illness to place himself back on the music scen…
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Si Hayden is a one-man band, composing entire songs on an acoustic guitar playing both lead and rhythm parts. It never occurred to me that I would enjoy compositions wit…
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Stanley Clarke has long been considered a musical genius and his new CD The Toys Of Men only serves to enhance that notion. The composer and musician extraordinai…
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Innovative bassist Stanley Clarke’s much anticipated solo album is designed with the emotive aspects of war in mind. And it’s a multifaceted brew, spanning tidbits of hi…
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Back in the late ‘70s, jazz-fusion and jazz-rock advocates would have greatly anticipated a recorded collaboration between Allan Holdsworth (gtr), Jaco Pastorius (b) and…
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In retrospect, the 1970s got a bad rap -- sure, there was Viet Nam, Nixon, disco, gas shortages, and really bad TV, but there was an awful lot of musical creativity goin…
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Recorded live at a Jakarta, Indonesia venue, descriptors for this unique jazz-fusion outfit might sound something like; clever, impressionistic, artful and positively in…
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Ausin-based The Chris Vestre Group delivers its second album with a regretfully apt title. Suburban Life. Suburban Life has 15 solid tunes and some excitin…
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As a connoisseur of jazz and as an individual who critiques hundreds of albums per year, I have come to realize that jazz is a mosaic tapestry that is filled with artist…
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Dr. Draw, a pop violinist, looks too young to actually be a doctor. Eugene Draw is a fine violinist. He has released a new CD, Adagio and with the mastery of a surge…
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Co-founder of the jazz-fusion ensemble Tribal Tech, Gary Willis has blossomed into one of the finest post-Jaco bassists and has few peers in the business. On this…
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David Joel, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader, has released a new CD Spiral Sky. A studio album that is produced by Joel and Derrick Graves, who is also the sound…
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Steve Smith and Vital Information have been on the fusion scene now for over 20 years, serving up a different and diverse flavor of their creativity with each project. T…
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Joe Zawinul, the keyboardist/composer and founder of the fusion supergroup, Weather Report, revisits some of the group’s great hits in a 15-piece big-band setting and do…
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35 Days in May is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and arranger Jeff Kaye, who garners the assistance of trumpeter Jim Kiser, saxophonist Paul Carr and oth…
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Led by all-universe drummer Steve Smith, this quartet has been a major force within jazz-fusion circles amid shifting personnel since the 80s. With the band’s latest eff…
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These separately packaged DVDs provide a glimpse of influential jazz & rock drummer Bill Bruford’s jazz-fusion outfit Earthworks and its transformation of style, sound a…
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The initial concepts and strategy for this band was born in New Orleans. Then, of course, Hurricane Katrina threw a proverbial wrench in the works. Long story short, the…
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