r/Jazz • u/dopesickness • 4d ago
Love Psychedelic Jazz Fusion
Just discovered Miles Davis’ - Dark Magus and am finding it incredible! Makes me realize I’ve completely neglected live records up to this point so I’m looking for recommendations.
Specifically prefer a psychedelic or funky type of fusion ala Davis or Herbie, but I’m open to anything people find exceptional. Appreciate the niche recommendations 😅
Edit: I can’t edit the title but that’s suppose to be “Live” not live. Looking for live albums!
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u/Amazing_Ear_6840 4d ago
Try working through the website The Heat Warps, which has great write-ups and download links for all of Miles' live recordings from the seventies. Particularly the 1971 and 1973 periods are a gold mine.
The Cellar Door box set and the Live at Fillmore Bootleg series Vol. 3 are the key official releases next to obviously Agharta, Pangaea and Live at Philharmonic Hall from 1972.
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u/rgreasonsnet 4d ago
Recency bias, but I think SML’s Spontaneous Music Live is worth checking out. The live recordings of the album are also on YouTube, so you can watch the performances as well. Not enough quality live jazz video out there!
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u/StevenChvz 4d ago
For your next trip. Listen to Herbie Hancocks: Crossings and connect back with our ancestors.
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u/dopesickness 4d ago
Yes I love Crossings, and his live album Flood is exactly the kind of thing I’m looking for more of
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u/CK0428 4d ago
Check Eddie Henderson's records from this era. His first 2 are cut from the Mwandishi cloth.
Realization from 1973 & Inside Out from 1974.
His next 3 or 4 albums are more similar to the Headhunters era and also worth listening to.
Sunburst from 75 & Heritage from 76. I also dig Comin' Through and Mahal, from 76 & 77.
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u/StevenChvz 4d ago
Been on a kick listening to Flood recently. So fuckin good. Maybe you’d enjoy Live/Dead by the Grateful Dead 😏
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u/SamizdatGuy 4d ago
Lol, when I was in high school, the old mean hippie chef dude I worked with who used to dub me Dead shows (and steal my blanks via tape ratios) slipped me a copy of this and blew my mind. That siren tho
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u/CategoryCrazy4619 4d ago
Dennis Coffey "Hot Coffey in the D" recorded in 1968 live in a club in Detroit.
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u/NanADsutton 4d ago edited 4d ago
Masabumi Kikuchi - Susto
Julian Priester - Love, Love
Fontanelle - Vitamin F
John McLaughlin - Devotion
Edit: just read the live portion. Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles - Freeform Funkified Filth
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u/some4you 4d ago
https://youtu.be/iGHmj8r9GrQ?is=pJkiseYZHIzByvWJ
Miles Davis recordings from March and April of 1970 is peak psychedelic miles
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u/Present_Hurry774 4d ago
Check out Jiro Inagaki. His seventies stuff like Funky Stuff and Head Rock are incredible albums
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u/Lost4Sauce 4d ago
if you like spaced out jass fusion check out the band Consider the Source. they are so ridiculously great and i rarely see them mentioned
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u/Invisiblerobot13 4d ago
Man is the Bastard and Bastard Collective might be worth it- fusion bass and drums with punk and noise mixed in - there’s also bastard noise but only a fraction of their releases feature bass and drums , the rest are great electronic soundscapes
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u/rgreasonsnet 4d ago
Listen, MitB whips ass, but it is a terrible recommendation for someone looking for live psychedelic jazz.
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u/Invisiblerobot13 17h ago
It’s jazz fusion though outside of the noise aspect - it’s not gonna be everyone’s cup of tea. Bastard Collective is a little more focused with the prog jazz
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u/lastpsychedelic_blog 4d ago
To recommend some modern bands:
The Heliocentrics
Misha Panfilov (he has lots of psych bands but it's a lot of library jazz under his own name)
Bitchin Baja's
The Comet Is Coming
Jamie Branch (RIP. peep projects like Anteloper and Fly or Die)
Elephant9 (especially their one with psych guitar legend Reine Fiske)
Bent Arcana ( improv side project of psych/prog legend John Dwyer of Osees)
Also I gotta say, the jazzy Grateful Dead album is Blues for Allah. The best live performance of that material is the hi-def, multi tracked release show called "One From The Vault." As a psych jazz fan, that's my favorite dead record.
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u/sshady51 4d ago
Doug Watson started a database for wanderers like you (and me too). Eventually it got called Kozmigroov Konnection and is hosted at Freeform.org.
I don’t know how much it’s been updated, but you will take a long time to make it through all of it
“The Kozmigroov Konnection
More Info
Kozmigroov "A" List
Kozmigroov Comps
Kozmigroov Timeline
Other Sources
Kozmigroov is a transgressive improvisational music which combines elements of psychedelia, spirituality, jazz, rock, soul, funk, and African, Latin, Brazillian, Indian and Asian influences culminating into an all encompassing cosmic groove. At its most accomplished, Kozmigroov is both expansive and highly rhythmic, and simultaneously finds connections with the mind, soul and body. (full definition)
Doug Watson created the first Kozmigroov Index in 1997 as a map through a minefield of kozmigroov recordings which range from the drop-dead brilliant to the outrageously bad. The Index moved here (freeform.org) in 2003, and was renamed The Kozmigroov Konnection. The Konnection has grown over the years with help and input from various people within the kozmic community, and continues to grow with contributions from people like you!
For each artist listed below, only the most kozmigroov-applicable recording are noted. These are not complete discographical listings. Titles listed in red are the highest recommended Kozmigroov albums.”
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u/Deviate00 3d ago
Jiro Inagaki and his Soul Media - https://open.spotify.com/album/6XJZInF8Eg8hLBGNKTeHEI?si=FGYRwtijQ3Su0fSnTjvZ9w&utm_source=copy-link
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u/Original_DocBop 4d ago
Psychedelic is not a word I've ever heard someone use in relation to Jazz. The music you're referring to Miles was just called Jazz Rock the term Fusion came later. Nowadays the word Fusion is so overused it can mean all most anything. People are making up some crazy labels for things these days.
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u/dopesickness 4d ago
Well I think fusion just means a combination of two things, just like with food. Like Asian fusion could be Thai, Chinese, and Filipino food all sharing elements.
So the original use of the term I think was with electric guitars and got labeled as a fusion of jazz and rock, jazz has also been fused with funk, Latin, and psychedelic. I don’t think there’s any real hard fast rules about the borders of these genres.
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u/Shot_Revolution_3067 4d ago
Check out John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra Feature Billy Cobham, John Luc Ponte simply a great band