Elegant Gypsy

Older album but very hot & well worth the entr more...0 points

Older album but very hot & well worth the entry fee if you are not familiar with this guitarist!0 points

Larry & Lee

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Fire Wire

Japanese pressing of larry's first solo album in t more...0 points

Japanese pressing of larry's first solo album in two years is scheduled to include an exclusive bonus track. Bluebird. 2005.0 points

Smoke 'N' Mirrors

As comfortable as guitarist Lee Ritenour has alway more...0 points

As comfortable as guitarist Lee Ritenour has always been in the smooth jazz format, he has strived to go beyond it with his embrace of world music and serious jazz stylists including Wes Montgomery. <i>Smoke 'N' Mirrors</i> is a characteristic production in gathering up a sizable cast of contemporary cronies including Patrice Rushen, Dave Grusin, Richard Bona and Abraham Laboriel, but Ritenour's involvement in South African and Brazilian music and his emphasis on acoustic guitar give it a fresh identit...0 points

The Guitar Trio

This was only the second recording for the Guitar more...0 points

This was only the second recording for the Guitar Trio, coming a full 16 years after 1980's <i>Friday Night in San Francisco</i>, but it's a fitting sequel. Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, and John McLaughlin once again demonstrate extraordinary virtuosity, accelerated runs tumbling over one another until identities blur. Repeated listening, however, starts to focus on the subtle differences in nuance, especially in the compositions. Though DeLucia grew up in a tradition of Spanish flamenco guitar, Brazili...0 points

Anthology

It's no wonder that some of the college students a more...0 points

It's no wonder that some of the college students and twentysomething youngsters who have given free jazz a shot in the arm are revisiting the fusion movement (sometimes simultaneously, as with Medeski Martin & Wood). The music reflects all the impetuousness and energy of youth and combines it with the technical maturity that can match the most seasoned avant-garde improviser. If there was such a thing as a pure fusion musician, it was the 21-year-old Al Di Meola at the start of this two-CD compi...0 points

Bitches Brew

The revolution was recorded: in 1969 <i>Bitc more...0 points

The revolution was recorded: in 1969 <i>Bitches Brew</i> sent a shiver through a country already quaking. It was a recording whose very sound, production methods, album-cover art, and two-LP length all signaled that jazz could never be the same. Over three days anger, confusion, and exhilaration had reigned in the studio, and the sonic themes, scraps, grooves, and sheer will and emotion that resulted were percolated and edited into an astonishingly organic work. <i>This</i> Miles Davis wasn't merely presentin...0 points

Weather Report

Weather Report's 1971 debut album defined the spir more...0 points

Weather Report's 1971 debut album defined the spirit of fusion--restlessly creative, eager to explore new sonic landscapes, and aware that there was a new audience out there eager to share in the discoveries. It's no accident that four of the five original band members--keyboardist Joe Zawinul, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Miroslav Vitous, and percussionist Airto Moriera--had played with the godfather of fusion, Miles Davis. Drummer Alphonse Mouzon brought a tireless propulsive force into...0 points

I Sing the Body Electric

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Return to Forever

The soul of fusion lies not in the barrage of note more...0 points

The soul of fusion lies not in the barrage of note clusters played through overdriven amplifiers but in the arresting beauty of <i>Return to Forever</i>'s lucid vision of music without boundaries. The stunningly virtuosic pianist Chick Corea had already gone through an exploration of free jazz with <i>Circle</i>, tutelage in the Miles Davis Academy of New Electric Music and the soul-searching of "Piano Improvisations" when he arrived at his most brilliant conception. Corea and bassist Stanley Clarke fly throu...0 points

Di Meola/Clarke/Ponty - Live at Montreux 1994

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Stanley Clarke

Remastered reissue of the jazz/funk drummer's 2nd more...0 points

Remastered reissue of the jazz/funk drummer's 2nd album originally released in 1974. Sony.0 points

The Essential John McLaughlin

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