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I recognise that one! Oh no! Wishing you a quick recovery.

Frank Gambale, Stuart Hamm, Steve Smith – Show Me What You Can Do... (Tone Center, 1998) For some reason, in the late nineties world of fusion, power trios became the real deal. This one could have been better than it was. Just Too Much guitar.

Hafez Modirzadeh - Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi, 2012)

That's really sad news.

What's this one like?

Those were classics of the genre of whatever the hell it was Verve was doing in the 90s. Is no-one mentioning the Schlippenbach trio for piano, saxophone and drums? Likewise Yosuke Yamashita's stuff from the 1970s.

Gary Chandler – Outlook (Eastbound, 1972)

Is this a record or just a way of referring to the "Blue Note Boogaloo" phenomenon?

Roscoe Mitchell – Dots - Pieces For Percussion And Woodwinds (Wide Hive, 2021)

Larry Carlton – Larry Carlton (MCA, 1988)

He's great on this. At the end of the day, loving jazz is all about recognising and enjoying networks of great musicians. It's a great thrill to suddenly scratch through and see a whole network whom you had never recognised. Realising that you already knew some of them and that there's more to discover yet.

Niacin - High Bias (Stretch, 1998) This is the first one I've heard that I've actually really very enjoyed. It's like Dr. Lonnie Smith mixed with Gentle Giant. There's actual rhythm too, which is more than I can say for Tribal Tech.

In can’t believe we are on 1987 already.

Clare Fischer – First Time Out (Pacific, 1962) That seems to be the Canadian cover. It has another different psychedelic cover on the original. sounds worth checking out.

Just chanced upon this thread. Some great reminisces here.

Just got caught listening to this by another adult. Mortified.

Utan Misstankar by Gilbert Holmström’s Kvintett

The Square - S.P.O.R.T.S. (CBS, 1986) I mean, this one is probably too likeable to qualify for this thread. Some tunes are as little as 20% guitar solo. From the point of view of 1980s fusion, I am not sure whether anything with less than 45% guitar solo per track even counts as music.

Red Holloway – Red Soul (Prestige, 1966) Now on this excellent record: Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O - Umdali (MHHH, 2021)

You mentioned them in another thread. I see he's on Phantom Navigator. Is there any records from that group itself?

I mean, the bass playing's great. Not so much the rhythm section as an entity though - it is very lockstep. But it's really a record for Scott Henderson, who is just not to my taste. I'm currently having a restorative bath of Phil Upchurch to revivify the senses.

Scott Henderson, Gary Willis, Tribal Tech – Illicit (1992) I asked Reddit to recommend some great fusion records and this is what I got. I can't believe that anyone who doesn't teach bass guitar could get into this record. It is very... arid music. I like the fake PMRC sticker. Best thing about the record.

I certainly prefer him to Micallef, who is just a YouTube grifter in my opinion. Shep's a real dude in a weird living room talking about records he likes, whilst his wife ans awkward stepson try to stay out of view.

He needs to wash his hair. Seriously.

Do you think it was all just at the behest of the record company then? Surely Hancock had been having enough hits that if he had not wanted to play acoustic stuff he would not have done it. I never met the guy, but I assumed that playing VSOP and those creaky acoustic records he's chunked out since the late 1970s was something he wanted to do. Shorter is a different story, because, after a similarly creaky start he did at least put a band together and take stuff in a direction. Anyway, Volume 2 was cool. Nice to hear Tyner and McLean like that.