Spacey Jazz Fusion/Funk Wanted

[wishface]

I posted this on Talkbass

 

I'm enjoying Return to Forever right now, along with Santana.

 

I love music that has song titles that sound like science fiction and mixed with a spacey sound and a positive vibe. Good bass work is always a plus.

 

I have Mahavishnu. Don't really count Weather Report. Pharaoh Sanders is rea.ly itneresting, but when he overblows I kinda tune out. 

 

Love that spacey synth sound though

[TheGreek]

Have you tried Ozric Tentacles???

[wishface]

4 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Have you tried Ozric Tentacles???

Why yes, yes I have. Should really have considered that. I have their works and enjoy them mightily. They are more dub than jazz funk though. 

[Burns-bass]

Gong might fit the bill here. Brand X too. 

[visog]

Well building your RTF, their most funk album is definitely 'No Mystery'... 'Dayride' is a trip in itself...

[Raslee]

Have you checked out Miles Davis’s fusion like Agharta or On the Corner, Live evil. Gongs Shamal album.  Also check the Inside from way out - Beastie Boys (instrumental stuff). Some good Headhunters stuff too, Thrust should lube your funk gland 😎

[SpondonBassed]

 

Edited August 16, 2019 by SpondonBassed

[wishface]

1 hour ago, Raslee said:

Have you checked out Miles Davis’s fusion like Agharta or On the Corner, Live evil. Gongs Shamal album.  Also check the Inside from way out - Beastie Boys (instrumental stuff). Some good Headhunters stuff too, Thrust should lube your funk gland 😎

I've never really listend to Miles Davis.

[Raslee]

1 hour ago, wishface said:

I've never really listend to Miles Davis.

You’re gonna love his funky fusion jamming then 😊. I find B’itchesBrew a bit intense but Agharta is a personal favourite. 

Edited August 16, 2019 by Raslee

[Bilbo]

Jean Luc Ponty did some great stuff. Billy Cobham. Larry Coryell's Spaces. Soft Machine. Al Dimeola's early solo stuff. There's loads of this stuff out there. 

[wishface]

16 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

 

That's some tasty stuff. Shame it's impossible to find anywhere else

[SpondonBassed]

2 hours ago, wishface said:

That's some tasty stuff. Shame it's impossible to find anywhere else

It turned me on at age sixteen.

I'm sorry I don't have the LP any more.  It was purely because of the cover art that I made the purchase.  It took me a while to realise that it was not an image of a spacecraft!  I wore out my cassette copy too so the link above was a fortunate find.  Even at that quality, it is better than my worn out copy.

Toefunk is my favourite track out of the album but the whole thing is a trip.  Have fun unscrambling the reverse speech bit.

[ebassuk]

Have a listen to Jeff Beck Wired and Blow by Blow truly classic jazz/funk/rock

[wishface]

2 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

It turned me on at age sixteen.

I'm sorry I don't have the LP any more.  It was purely because of the cover art that I made the purchase.  It took me a while to realise that it was not an image of a spacecraft!  I wore out my cassette copy too so the link above was a fortunate find.  Even at that quality, it is better than my worn out copy.

Toefunk is my favourite track out of the album but the whole thing is a trip.  Have fun unscrambling the reverse speech bit.

 Actually i preferred the spacier stuff, tbh. Some nice bass playing. 

[Raslee]

I’m liking this a lot 😊

22 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

 

 

[timhiggins]

3 of my faves as well as lots of the above choices 

Edited August 17, 2019 by timhiggins

[itu]

DiMeola: Tour de force (live)

Jeff Beck: Wired

CAB: any record

A. Holdsworth: Metal fatigue

Manring: Thonk

Tribal tech, Bruford...

As an extra, I have to share this link with you. A Finnish composer and a bassist extraordinaire, Mr. Pekka Pohjola:

 

[SpondonBassed]

7 hours ago, wishface said:

That's some tasty stuff. Shame it's impossible to find anywhere else

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/4281019?ev=rb

From https://centraldoprog.blogspot.com/2017/12/visitor-2035-visitor-2035-1978-lp.html

"VISITOR 2035 were a short-lived band based in the UK, with the Irishman John Mason and Craig Pruess , an American residing in UK since 1973. Mason is renowned as a member of the Irish top-notch outfit Fruup; Pruess performed with Mike Oldfield and did arrangements for music of Sarah Brightman, Def Leppard and Massive attack, among many others.
The band self-released 'Cain! A Modern Mystery Play' in 1976, and released the self-titled album in 1978 for the German label Hansa.
The music of Visitor 2035 is heavily rooted in fusion, on the Weather Report/ Return to Forever side, with omnipresent symphonic elements and eerie spacey keyboard textures in Skywhale/ Flight vein. It's recommended to fans of music which is stepping out of the fusion realm, as well as to all fans of good music."

Edited August 17, 2019 by SpondonBassed

[knirirr]

Wikipedia claims that this album "is sometimes considered to have started the jazz fusion genre":

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

ER!

 

[jazzmanb]

Les clay pool gets quite dirty and funky and spacey at times with Primus 

Try jillys on smack 

Also the band he has with Julian Lennon 

[BreadBin]

1 hour ago, jazzmanb said:

Also the band he has with Julian Lennon 

The Claypool Lennon Delirium - excellent stuff 👍

[odysseus]

If you fancy something a bit more trippy, along the Ozrics vein.. try Shpongle. There's a couple of live sets on YouTube as well as albums. ☺️

[KevB]

Steve Hillage and Dave Stewart performing as 'Khan'

 

[Old Man Riva]

Been posted on here before, but absolutely no harm in posting it again!

Something a bit more recent that you may like...