JAZZ FUSION FANS? What are your favoriteTracks/LPs?

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David Sancious made several really good ones in the70's. I especially like "Transformation".

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3 hours ago, Digi&Analog Fan said:

Neil Larsen and David Sancious being mentioned is quite a surprise. Both not that well known outside of Fusion circles despite Sancious being the opening act for Bruce Springsteen a multitude of time back then and Neil's guitarist Buzz Feiten doing stints sitting in with the Paul Schaefer band on the old David Letterman Show, back when it was on. Both of those artists are great. The jamming interplay between Larsen's keyboards and Feitens guitar work could be right up there with guitarists  Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, of the southern rock group The Allman Brothers. All of Neil Larsen's albums are consistently good, although some are a little more favorite than others. Probably his albums with his group Full Moon get the most play personally after Jungle Fever, which I was turned onto by the old High Fidelity Magazine Music Reviews, rightly calling it an underground Fusion classic. The playlist of the Jazz Fusion radio show that came on once weekly always included among others; Al Jarrau, Spyro Gyra, Cedar Walton, Ronnie Laws, Matrix, Mark Almond, Chuck Mangione, The Dregs, The Crusaders (formerly The Jazz Crusaders), Bill Burford, Stanley Clarke, Mike Manieri, and Tom Scott, who also did occasional stints with the house band on the old Letterman Show. At least two of his albums with his group the L.A. Express are classics: Tom Cat and the one with the close up album cover of a woman's mid section wearing a belt buckle. His riffs with electric guitarist Robben Ford are wonderful. An artist whose long discography I have a feeling I should investigate even further. 

Sancious was actually in the E-Street Band. "The Wild, the Innocent..." would not have been the same without him. He left the band during the recording of "Born to Run". Has had a big career as a session musician for lots of big name artists. 

Thought of another: British band "Colosseum" was an early blues/rock/jazz fusion band.