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Al Garcia: Make It So
by Todd S. Jenkins
Hard-hitting, well-executed fusion from a promising new voice. The arrival of CDs which feature one individual playing most of the instruments tends to give chills to reviewers. Fortunately, Al Garcia breaks the mold by crafting inventive, appealing arrangements that utilize all the sounds he has on hand to good effect. He is a member of the ...
Greg Goodman/Henry Kaiser/Lukas Ligeti: Heavy Meta
by Todd S. Jenkins
Exotic and unpredictable free improvisations from the Bay Area. Henry Kaiser is the best-known voice here, an independently wealthy, endlessly creative guitarist who has worked from San Francisco to Madagascar, Antarctica and back. Hearing him paired in a free trio with piano and drums is a rather unusual experience, but close listening uncovers many deposits of ...
Weather Report: Live and Unreleased
by Todd S. Jenkins
Columbia/Legacy have dug even deeper into their closets and dusted off eighteen excellent live performances by one of fusion's finest units. These tracks, recorded between 1975 and 1983, represent several different lineups of the band whose only permanent members were Shorter and Zawinul. As iffy as some of Weather Report's studio albums were -- too often ...
Mark Stanley: Insect Warriors
by Todd S. Jenkins
Now here’s an odd fish: Mark Stanley presents the barest thread of a musical sci-fi thriller about giant insects trying to take over the world. Mahavishnu meets Zappa in Lovecraft’s game room on this highly unusual but interesting endeavor. The cover art immediately tips us off that this isn’t your ordinary fusion CD. On a comic-book ...
Astrud Gilberto: Jungle
by Todd S. Jenkins
An enchanting new set that is sure to please her longtime fans. Aside from a catastrophic (but thankfully short) sidestep into disco in the mid-70s, Ms. Gilberto has not deviated much from the formula that made her world-famous in the bossa-nova era. Her voice, instantly recognizable from a number of Stan Getz crossover classics, has changed ...
Mahavishnu Project: Live Bootleg
by Todd S. Jenkins
The old soul classic pretty well says it all: “Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby." In this era of repertory projects, from Henry Kaiser and Leo Smith's Yo Miles! to Ken Vandermark's assays of Sun Ra and Albert Ayler, it seems only logical that some die-hard fusion fans would revisit the legacy of John McLaughlin's ...
Jeff Coffin Mu'tet: Go-Round
by Todd S. Jenkins
The Flecktones reedman takes a trip around the world with this stylistically rich brew of original tunes. Jeff Coffin not only continues to turn heads as one of the most impressive saxophonists in modern jazz, he exhibits some amazing compositional skills as well. He seems to draw as much inspiration from avant-garde jazzmen like Dewey Redman ...
Indaba: Something Serious
by Todd S. Jenkins
Visceral, cutting-edge fusion by an Aussie power trio. Indaba is apparently a Bantu pygmy word for “something serious”, an apt name for this hard-hitting band and their debut disc. Commendable chops and crunch aplenty season a fully enjoyable set of original tunes by a band which is sure to make waves in the future. Schipke, Wenham ...
Kriegsmarine: Kriegsmarine
by Todd S. Jenkins
Ah, yes. A pretty good album that’s practically guaranteed to tick people off before they even hear the music. Kriegsmarine is a North Carolina fusion outfit comprised of four talented musicians, three brothers and a friend, who take part in World War II re-enactments on the side. They named their band after the Nazi German Navy ...
Weather Report: Black Market
by Todd S. Jenkins
Another key turning point in the colorful evolution of Weather Report. Around the same time that Alphonso Johnson replaced founding bassist Miroslav Vitous in 1974, the band moved towards a new sound centered around electronic instruments and studio experimentation. The vital funk and soul grooves that Johnson brought into the band helped them pull off that ...
