Searching for Fender Rhodes in Jazz or Fusion

cannonball adderley quintet-mercy mercy mercy(live at the club)....one of the greatest of all time.

Really like Zawinul w/ Adderly too. Ahmad Jamal Outertime Innerspace is great, same goes for most of George Duke's early 70's stuff on MPS. The work he did w/ Zappa (Grand Wazoo, Blessed Relief for one) is cool too. The Mwandishi, Herbie Hancock (Complete Warner Bros. Recordings) 2cd set gets you 3 of his funkier records (all w/ Fender Rhodes). The Italian band Perigeo, especially on Genealogia, (1974) has some excellent electric piano on it that really sticks in your head.

When you say you're stuck in the 70's I assume you're talking Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock and such. Lots of distorted Rhodes there. Or you could mean Joe Sample and George Duke and their like, with that funky Rhodes sound. Or Jan Hammer, or Bob James ... each with their own genre to be sure.

Brings back a lot of memories. Nope, not a lot of that around these days. The Rhodes was one of the instruments of choice for a while there, to be sure. Then of course there was the Wurlitzer too, with it's own sound (I owned one of those).

Enjoy,
Bob

Bob, what I find most interesting is that the Rhodes, along with the Hammond B3 and the Mini Moog are ALL on the way back. Restored Rhodes pianos are selling for more than when they were new. A LOT more. A Hammond B3 with say....a Leslie 760? Over $8000.00 in today's market. I sold my B3 in 1983 for $1200 and I was begging the person to take it!

Once again, digital just can't reproduce all of the wonderful gentle nuances that the older keyboards had to offer. I presently own a Yamaha P-120 88 note keyboard. Although the voicings are incredibly realistic, they still don't sound like the real McCoy.

At least not like my last 1966 Rhodes 73 Stage with TUBES, or my Leslie and Hammond with TUBES.

Hmmm..... Technology........what a joke.

Chick Corea's "Light as a Feather" is one of THE classic jazz/fusion albums with Rhodes. Also Freddy Hubbard's "Red Clay" with Herbie playing Rhodes (& organ on 1 track). Two of the best jazz, or jazz fusion albums from the early 70's!