Blockbuster Jazz Fusion Acts of the 1970s

ooh. top three are lifetime, headhunters, and mahavishnu, but honestly i spent the most time listening to mahavishnu (+ the first headhunters album).

This is tough.

mahavishnu or herbie hancock/headhunters

Need to hear more Lifetime. Of the stuff I am familiar with it's Hancock.

Forgot to leave an "other" button, although it's hard to think of another band that belongs with these.

yeah, there are the brecker bros., and minor bands like brand x and the eleventh house, but i can't think of any other blockbusters.

although the brecker bros. sold way more records than lifetime, i'm guessing

I'm going to assume the Hancock option includes pre-Head-Hunters stuff like Crossings and Sextant, so that.

Definitely Mahavishnu for me. Just picked up The Trident Sessions last week, so it may just be because I've been on a huge kick lately.

i've heard some lifetime and it sounds awesome, same w/headhunters...

don't think i've heard the "good" weather report but i really hate heavy weather....

but yeah i've listened to the 1st 2 mahavishnu records so much and really really love them

I wanted to vote for Tower Of Power, but I guess they don't count as fusion.

this is impossible btw

trident sessions is awesome.

lifetime always seems like such a great idea (tony williams playing rock! garage fusion!) but it never stuck in my head, although it's been a few years since i heard any. now i want to hear some.

I don't care much for Weather Report or Return To Forever, to fusiony. Will check out some Lifetime to make my vote more scientific but I'm pretty sure it comes down to Hancock in the end.

guitar hero/rock band should add some return to forever tracks.

no spyro gyra, no credibility

i've heard some lifetime and it sounds awesome, same w/headhunters...
don't think i've heard the "good" weather report but i really hate heavy weather....
but yeah i've listened to the 1st 2 mahavishnu records so much and really really love them
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try this one, matt!

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but i mean i voted for lifetime

Hancock's Mwandishi albums stomp all over the Headhunters stuff (except the Japan-only live album, Flood). But I'll probably vote Mahavishnu.

Anybody else heard the bootlegs of the McLaughlin/Santana band (feat. Larry Young) that toured the U.S. in 1973, after Love Devotion Surrender came out. Pretty great stuff.

69, i really LOVE joe zawinul's pre weather report solo s/t album, is early weather report in the same vein (it's almost the same dudes)

wow did i love this compilation in high school:

http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Fusion-Vol-Various-Artists/dp/B0000033WY

voted herbie/headhunters. thanks to ilm I've done a major rediscovery on hancock's fusion lps over the last year. and the bennie maupin-led headhunters rocked.

"I'm going to assume the Hancock option includes pre-Head-Hunters stuff like Crossings and Sextant, so that."

What he said.

But King Crimson is better than all of them.

I know labels ain't cool and all, but King Crimson is more prog rock than jazz fusion.

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Tony Williams Lifetime and Mahavishnu only have 2 albums that I listen to and I listen to more Weather Report, admittedly I have a large capacity for jazz-fusion-cheese, than all of the other options. Something says to me Herbie, but on the other hand, despite Mahavishnu not having all that much that I like, I like the stuff I like so much taht I'm going to go for them. Haven't actually heard more than one or two tracks of Return to forever.

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