Jazz for aficionados

Each post of frogman is like a small jazz masterclass ...😊

Thanks ... It help my ears/brain  to listen differently and approach a musician as Davis with more understanding than just my mere  uninformed "taste" ...

Music is also ethic and knowledge not only esthetic, each musician embody an ethical,esthetical and a knowledge perspective inherited from his time which he contribute to transform ...

my thanks to you frogman...

Each post of frogman is like a small jazz masterclass 

Yes, indeed!  

@frogman 

Thanks for taking the time to go into this topic in more depth. What you say makes sense.

As a guitar player, I understand the significance of modes.

Perhaps Fusion is itself too broad a term because as time went on, the genre changed quite a bit. Now that we’re into this topic, I’m not even sure when Fusion started. Is "Extrapolation" Fusion? What about "Odyssey of Iska" or "Mountain in the Clouds" or the first version of RTR w/ F. Purim? Or, are these transitional, occupying a hazy territory somewhere between Jazz and Fusion?

The above albums sound very different, to my ears, than say "School Days" , "Splendido Hotel" or "In Search of a Dream". These albums are much slicker, more Funk and Rock influenced, with a more overt emphasis on dazzling chops and "tunes" based on (to me) often monotonous riffs/ostinatos rather actual chord changes.

BTW, the "Lifetime" album I referred to was not the one with larry Young and Johnny Mac. It was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DZccr0dzWE

I just finisher to listening to many albums of Manu Katché a drummer ...

The musicians who he attracted are very good ...

None of these 8 albums were bad... I pick only jazz albums .... Katché make other collaborations in many genres ...

We often think here in this thread about musician creativity and influence , who is the best at sax or trumpet etc ...

These are esthetical thoughts about creativity ...

our tastes evaluation  about creativity and esthetic  for each of us about any albums  can vary ...

But there is also healing effects which are specific to our own metabolism and habit ...Which effects are not evaluated as  esthetical factors ....

This explain why some music appears just good or bad for some and not for others ...

Katche music is very relaxing jazz to me ... 😊

@stuartk 

BTW, the "Lifetime" album I referred to was not the one with larry Young and Johnny Mac. It was this:

That is a really good album. Totally different then his later Tony Williams Lifetime Band. But as thefrogman said you can hear the direction Tony is headed for.