The Supernova that Was Jazz-Rock Fusion

- Chick Corea / Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann, Hubert Laws, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Gary Burton, Return to Forever, self/solo - Jozef Skrzek / Niemen, SBB - Tomás Berka / Fermáta, Pavol Hammel - Joachim Kühn / Rolf Kühn, self, Association P.C., Toto Blanke, Jan Akkerman - Mike Ratledge / The Soft Machine - Karl Jenkins / Nucleus, The Soft Machine, Adiemus - Larry Young (Khalid Yasin) / organist on Emergency! Love Devotion Surrender , Venusian Summer , Lawrence of Newark and Spaceballs - Lonnie Liston Smith - Brain Auger - Dave Stewart / Egg, Kahn, Hatfield And The North, National Health, Bruford - Rainer Brüninghaus / Eberhard Weber, ECM - Wlodek Gulgowski / self, Michal Urbaniak - Alan Pasqua / The New Tony Williams Lifetime, Eddie Money, Bob Dylan, Santana, Allan Holdsworth - Ann Ballester / Édition Spécial - Harold "Ivory" Williams / MFSB, Miles Davis, Michal Urbaniak - Japser Van't Hoff / Association P.C., Lol Coxhill, Chris ...

Some argue that Allan Holdsworth is the pre-eminent musical genius over the past 60 years. I know that he lived in a musical universe of his own creation, a mathematical world that he alone practiced in a language that he alone created. I know that the first time I became aware of the existence and genius of Allan was in 1978 when the first Bruford album came out. His playing leapt out of the grooves immediately, both stupefying me and annoying me for the extreme unorthodoxy of both his sound and his scales. But it was the UK album that really sealed my respect and awe, and "Sahara in the Snow" from the second Bruford album that sealed my undying curiosity--the drive that kept me buying his albums and the albums on which he appeared through the 1980s. Most everything I'm disclosing in the list and reviews below are made possible by the access to all of the world's music that the Internet has provided me in the past 15 years. Only in the last two years had I ever heard...