The Supernova that Was Jazz-Rock Fusion

The long-playing song, sometimes called an "epic," or "suite," or "mesmeric," is one of the defining links between that which purists want to call, separately, "progressive rock music" or "prog." (The other would probably be the continual exploration and experimentation of new possibilities in sound, recording, and engineering that were made possible through an explosion of new electronic technologies and equipments coming to availability in the 1960s and 1970s.) It is here my goal to find and insert the great long-playing songs produced by Jazz-Rock Fusion artists during the "Classic Era" of the founding and development of that which we call Jazz-Rock Fusion, that is, 1966 to about 1979 or 1980. 1. "Prince Of The Sea" - Lenny White -  (100/100)     "Slightly All the Time" - The Soft Machine -  (100)     "Table talk" (12:03) - Out Of Focus -  (100)     "Sorcery 1" - Gateway -  (100)     ...

The music of "Bumpin' on Sunset" perambulates throughout our household, casting a relaxing, hypnotic spell on everybody and everything as my brother blasts Straight Ahead again and again in the Fall of 1974.   Thus, Brian Auger became absorbed into me, helping to reveal to me my innate preferences--the stuff that was conditioned in my DNA for future choice. I did not, however, ever even think to explore other albums of Mr. Auger's creation--until very recently. And now, having heard and integrated Mr. Auger's discography from the 1960s to the end of the 1970s I am so glad for it! I have enjoyed the amazing journey of growth and experimentation that Brian traveled from his start in blues through all of his experiments with folk, jazz, funk and pop-oriented in their purest forms as well as in their most "fused" versions. Why his collaborators rarely get cited for their significant talents and contributions to the evolution of blues, blues-rock, rock, folk,...