Jeff Beck – With The Jan Hammer Group: Live

Jeff Beck – With The Jan Hammer Group: Live

Third chapter in Beck’s adventure in Jazz-rock land, this live album is probably his best (at least IMHO) and certainly an improvement of the preceding ultra-technical Wired and the too fusion-esque Blow By Blow. Indeed, this third try is probably the best...
Weather Report – Heavy Weather

Weather Report – Heavy Weather

Weather Report’s biggest-selling album is that ideal thing, a popular and artistic success — and for the same reasons. For one thing, Joe Zawinul revealed an unexpectedly potent commercial streak for the first time since his Cannonball Adderley days,...
Santana – Borboletta

Santana – Borboletta

Starting on the same birdsong and sheep herd landscapes than its inspiration (but written by jazz-rock great Airto Moreira), you just know you will be in for another superb Santana ride as right after the intro, the first few mid-eastern scales of Canto De Flores...
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire

Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire

Most of what we now recognize as Jazz Rock Fusion dates back to the first two albums by John McLaughlin’s MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, which ought to be enough reason to locate either on that (sadly, not very remote) Prog Archives plateau of certified five- star...
Jean-Luc Ponty – Aurora

Jean-Luc Ponty – Aurora

This 1975 high-powered fusion differs surprisingly little from the music that Jean-Luc Ponty has mostly played throughout the 1980s and ’90s. The violinist’s quintet (which includes guitarist Darryl Stuermer, keyboardist Patrice Rushen, bassist Tom Fowler...