Quote Originally Posted by -Jar-
To me WAY too much fusion suffers from being too nice and pretty. I like it when jazz musicians make a real attempt at rocking and getting ugly and sweaty, and not creating some kind of sleep inducing muzak. But I'm not a fusion expert by a long shot... so take that for what it's worth.

-jar
Well, I'm no fusion expert either. I've been interested in the musicians that played for Miles Davis during his "electric" period who then formed their own jazz/rock fusion bands.

It's amazing just how many musicians did this.

Anyway, they certainly got ugly on that Emergency recording. I was really looking forward to getting this and when I finally heard it I was very disappointed. Incidently, the follow-up to this, Turn It Over, is even worse. Just awful. So have a go at this one too, Mason. You'd probably like it.

I suppose Weather Report could fit into your "nice and pretty" catagory. I've only listened to Heavy Weather which was released in 1977 and contained their biggest hit "Birdland". A pretty good tune really but the rest of that album didn't do anything for me. I would like to check out their earlier releases though, primarily the first one.

Darren