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Top Jazz-Rock Fusion Recordings

by Douglas Groothuis
April 27, 2021

The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from extinction. Sometime in the 1960s, rock had eclipsed jazz in popularity in America, and many jazz aficionados were none too happy about ...

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Birds of Fire

By Mahavishnu Orchestra

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Birds of Fire; Miles Beyond; Celestial Terrestrial Commuters; Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love; Thousand Island Park; Hope; One Word; Sanctuary; Open Country Joy; Resolution

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Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire

Read "Birds of Fire" reviewed by Walter Kolosky

by Walter Kolosky
November 16, 2002

In 1973, hard rock ruled the universe. But Birds of Fire , a pure instrumental jazz-rock album, managed to crack into the Billboard Top 20 Rock Charts. This was unheard of. And so was the music. Birds of Fire advanced fusion into the modern age, a mere year after the band's The Inner ...

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Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire

Read "Birds Of Fire" reviewed by Alan Brooks

by Alan Brooks
April 1, 2001

This review is a brief track-by-track survey of Mahavishnu Orchestra's BIRDS OF FIRE ('73). The title track, which commences the album, opens with cymbal, electric twelve string guitar, and synthesizer; then the bass and violin enter, playing the same ostinato. The machinegun speed 12(?) note guitar-violin duet that follows is the shrieking bird, and though 'blistering' ...

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The Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire

Read "Birds Of Fire" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
December 1, 2000

First off, I shall quote my earliest, “first impressions”, upon receiving this remastered re-release, as a special pre-release demo copy,“WOW!, WOW! and WOW! Superb redo of this classic! This sounds as good as I had hoped it would. Grab it as soon as it is ready for release. Levels are way up, great separation ...

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Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire

Read "Birds Of Fire" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins

by Todd S. Jenkins
September 1, 2000

For years it's been said around punk circles that the Velvet Underground's first album only sold a thousand copies, but everyone who bought the album went out and formed a band. The Mahavishnu Orchestra's second album, Birds Of Fire, was equally instrumental in building the popularity of fusion, but along the way it went gold and ...