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Name: Shattered
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Subject: Jazz Fusion, guitarists, Mick Taylor
Date: Monday, August 13, 2018
Time: 11:09:05 AM
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Jazz Fusion, guitarists, Mick Taylor

Back in the late '70s I fell in love with the Jazz Fusion genre. Believe me that floodgate was opened wide!

Drugs was the main influence, and we felt it was all the musicians' main influence too, therefore speaking our lingo. (Hey we were young.🙄 And besides, that music is great for the head.) And we were frustrated with FM commercial rock radio increasingly stinking up the place which helped gravitate me to the Jazz Fusion direction.

The legendary group Weather Report was one of my earliest favorites.

But it was most important to me to have plenty of guitar in the music. Wild crazy guitar. John McLaughlin with his group The Mahavishnu Orchestra was #1 on my list. The first incarnation of the group (1971–1974) had a most powerful personnel. Here's their smokin' 1971 album The Inner Mounting Flame. Whoa baby!! (Pete Townsend once purchased a guitar from a young John McLaughlin when JM was working in a guitar shop in England. It's in Townsend's auto-bio.).

Chick Corea's group Return To Forever also had an amazing guitarist, a then 19 year old Al Di Meola (and Stanley Clarke on bass!) Their most successful album is Romantic Warrior (1976). This is the classic lineup.

These 4 guys actually reunited in 2008!! I love reunions. Corea and Stanley Clarke were the only constant members of RTF, but this incarnation was the longest, and best, with Lenny White on drums, and Di Meola on guitar. Wow!

These days Chick Corea has his Chick Corea Elektric Band with another phenom on guitar Jamie Glaser.

My hero Mick Taylor released his first solo album in 1979, a time when musically all I wanted to KNOW was Jazz Fusion. Well guess what. Taylor included that genre on his album, and it was great >===> Spanish/A Minor. And two years later the Stones had "Slave" on Tattoo You. Loved it.

So many awesome guitar players. The Becks', the Claptons'.......

It's all subjective of course, and everybody's mileage varies. For me, MT remains my favorite. As great as all those other guys are, Taylor, to me, plays most from the heart. He has wonderful improv ability. Yeah, Di Meola is awesome, but he's too technical. He's too -- I don't know -- textbook(?) Where's the heart?

Yeah I enjoy all those technical guys, great great music for sure, but I most enjoy music from the heart, and Taylor's the man for me. Just my humble opinion of course. 😉

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