Wednesday, December 23, 2020

My Highest Rated 21st Century Jazz-Rock Fusion Releases

I am by no means an expert in this area--and it can be evidenced from the list below that I have not listened to all albums that might qualify as Jazz-Rock Fusion or Jazz Fusion albums, but the sub-genre is not dead. Below I have listed the top-rated albums of the 21st Century (according to my personal metric ratings system).


THE MASTERPIECES:

 1. UNAKA PRONG Salinity Now! * (2018) = 96.25

2. MONOBODY Raytracing * (2018) = 95.88

3. ANTOINE FAFARD Ad Perpetuum (2014) - 94.0

4. UTOPIANISTI The Third Frontier (2016) - 93.33 

5. JAGA JAZZIST Starfire (2015) - 93.33

6. KBB Lost and Found (2000) - 92.59


THE MINOR MASTERPIECES:

7. HIROMI'S SONICBLOOM Time Control (2007) - 92.22
8. BIG BAD WOLF Pond Life (2017) - 91.0
9. DOMINA CATRINA LEE Songs from the Breastbone Drum (2010) - 90.90
10. UZVA Ouma (2006) - 90.0
11. FARMERS MARKET Surfin' USSR (2008) (5 stars)
12. JAM IT! Following the Unknown (2015) - 90.0

PEKKA POHJOLA Views * (2001) - 90.0


EXCELLENT J-R FUSION:

PAT METHENY GROUP Speaking of Now (2002) - 89.65
ANTOINE FAFARD Sphére (2016) - 88.42
JAGA JAZZIST A Livingroom Hush (2001) - 88.25
WILDFLOWERS Season 2 (2020) - 87.86
DRAW THE SKY Humanity (2017) - 87.50
UNAKA PRONG Adult Contemporary (2017) * - 86.67


VERY GOOD JAZZ-ROCK FUSION RELEASES:

ROBERT JÜRJENDAL Simple Past/Lihtminevik (2017) - 86.50
PAT METHENY GROUP The Way Up (2005) - 86.25
ODD OUTFIT ^(Up/Down) (2017) - 86.25
PAT METHENY From This Place (2020) * - 85.64
SVETAMUZIKA Present Simple (2015) - 85.60
OUTER LIMITS Stromatolite (2007) * - 84.54
PANZERPAPPA Pestrottedans (2016) - 84.29



GOOD JAZZ-ROCK FUSION RELEASES:

SPACESHIP Traveler (2016) - 83.33
FAT SPARROW Fat Sparrow (2015) - 82.73 
DOMINIQUE VANTOMME Dominique Vantomme (2018) - 82.65
PERIDONI Jade (2017) - 82.50
JAGA JAZZIST One-Armed Bandit (2010) - 81.11



As-Yet Incomplete Reviews:
JAN GARBAREK In Praise of Dreams (2004)
SYRINX Qualia (2008) (4 stars)
AL DI MEOLA Flesh on Flesh (2003) 
JOHN ZORN The Garden of Earthly Delights (2017)
ANTOINE FAFARD Proto Mundi (2017) (4 stars)  
PATRICK GRANT A Sequence of Waves (Twelve Stories and a Dream) (2017)
DISSONANT DISTANCE Dissonant Distance (2018)
ADAM HOLZMAN Truth Decay (2018)



* Indicates: Probably Not True Jazz-Rock Fusion
EARTHWORKS The Sound of Surprise * (2001) - 91.66
KOOP Waltz for Koop * (2001) - 90.0
KAMASI WASHINGTON The Epic * (2015)
JAGA JAZZIST (2020) 
 





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