My Favorite Long-Playing Jazz-Rock Fusion Songs of the "Classic Era," 1966-1979

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.

"Song title" - Artist Name - (score on the Fishscales)
"Prince Of The Sea" - Lenny White - (100/100)
"Slightly All the Time" - The Soft Machine - (100)
"Table talk" - Out Of Focus - (100)
"Sorcery 1" - Gateway - (100)
"Every Step of the Way" - Santana - (100)

"Sea Song" - Pat Metheny - (100)

"Also Sprach Zarathustra" - Deodato - (100)

"Край Родной / Native Land" - Фирюза (Firyuza) - (100)

"Splat" - Nucleus - (100)

"Little Sunflower" - Freddie Hubbard (feat. Al Jarreau) - (100)

"Inspirations Of Love" - The New Tony Williams Lifetime - (100)

"The Sahara of Snow, Pts. 1 & 2" - Bruford - (100)  

"Actual Proof" - Herbie Hancock - (98.75)

"The Szuite" - Hermann Szobel - (98)

"Pori 72" - Jazz Q - (98)
"Images/Eternal Worlds/Epilogue" - Julian Priester - (97.5)

"Pieseň z hôľ (Song From Ridges)" - Fermáta - (97.5)

"One Word" - The Mahavishnu Orchestra - (97.5)

"The Life Divine" - Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - (97.5)

"Seifenblasenleiden" - Exil - (97.5)

"The Romantic Warrior" - Return to Forever - (97)

"Silver Bird Is Heading For The Sun" - Terje Rypdal - (96.667)

"Paprika Plains" - Joni Mitchell - (96.667)

"The Lovers" - Les McCann - (96.5)

"Indian Lady" - The Don Ellis Orchestra - (96.43)

"The Mad Hatter Rhapsody" - Chick Corea - (96.25)

"Driftwood" - Nova - (96.25)

"500 Miles High" - Return To Forever - (96.25)

"Devotion" - John McLaughlin - (96.25)

"Variations for Trumpet" - The Don Ellis Orchestra - (96.25)

"The Traitor" - Herbie Hancock - (96.25)

"Piece For Banjo And Kazoo" - Charlie Mariano - (96.25)

"Opus 5" - The Don Ellis Orchestra - (96.25)

"Dear Alice" - Chick Corea - (96)

"Articolazioni" - Arti E Mestieri - (96)
"T. on a White Horse" - Eberhard Weber - (96)

"In the Dead of Night" suite - UK - (96)

"Return to Forever" - Chick Corea - (96)

"Boogie Woogie Waltz" - Weather Report - (96)

"Song To The Pharoah Kings" - Return to Forever - (95.833)

"Travelling, Pts 1 & 2" - Joachim Kühn - (95.625)

"Pamiec w Kamein Wasta" - SBB - (95)

"Huascaran I" - Fermáta - (95)

"Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" - Jean-Luc Ponty - (95)

"Unity" - Chris Hinze Combination - (95)

"Vision Is a Naked Sword" - The Mahavishnu Orchestra - (95)

"Solarization: Solarization/Second Phase/Crescent Sun/Voyage/Solarization-Recapitulation" - Billy Cobham - (95)

"Typhareth (Beauté)" - Zao - (95)

"Butterfly" - Herbie Hancock - (95)
"Moana I" - Eberhard Weber - (95)

"Zanzibar" - Volker Kriegel - (95)

"Wizard (Musical Impressions Of J.R.R. Tolkein's Unforgettable Mage, Gandalf From "The Lord Of The Rings")" - Matrix - (95)

"Water Torture" - Herbie Hancock - (95)
"W Kolysce Dioni Twych (Ojcu)" - SBB - (95)

"Orientation" - The Don Ellis Orchestra - (95)

"You'll Know When You Get There" - Herbie Hancock - (95)

"Why Should I Lend You Mine" - Brand X - (95)

"Inside Out" - Eddie Henderson - (95)

"Narodziny" - Extra Ball - (95)

"Emergency" - Tony Williams Lifetime - (95)

"Tsajama" - Out Of Focus - (95)

"Sly" - Herbie Hancock - (95)

"In Tangier/Paradise Beach" - Herbie Mann - (95)

"Samba Song" - Chic Corea - (95)

"Camara" - Édition Spéciale - (95)

"When I Met My Wondergirl" - Jukka Hauru - (95)

"Dance Lunatic" - Ex Ovo Pro - (95)

"Life Suite" - Stanley Clarke - (94.58)

"Mind Movie" - Secret Oyster - (94.375)

"Ban-Ban Caliban" - The Soft Machine - (94.375)

"Seriously Deep"  Eberhard Weber - (94.29)

"Aurora Borealis" - Jukka Tolonen - (94)

"Xingu" - Stomu Yamash'ta - (94)

"Episode (Santiago 11. 9. 73)" - Jukka Hauru - (94)

"Moody Modes" - Billy Cobham - (94)

"Sangria For Three" - Tony Williams Lifetime - (94)

"Z Ktorych Krwi Frew Moja" - SBB - (93.75)

"Djinji" - Marion Brown - (93.75)

"New York City" - Miroslav Vitous - (93.75)

"Prologue/Rainbow One" - Neil Ardley - (93.75)

"Spaces (Infinite)" - Larry Coryell - (93.75)

"Friends" - Chick Corea - (93.75)

"Wrong Is Right" - Larry Coryell - (93.75)

"Land of the Midnight Sun" - Al Di Meola - (93.75)

"Hello Your Quietness (Islands)" - Larry Young - (93.75)

"More About D" - Volker Kriegel - (93.75)

"Waka / Jawaka" - Frank Zappa - (93.75)
"Saxophonie" - Ex Vitae - (93.333)

"Let Us Go into the House of the Lord" - Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - (93.33)

"The Emperor" - Donald Byrd - (93.333)

"Slums on Wheels" - Volker Kriegel - (93.33)

"Deliverance" - John Lee & Gerry Brown - (93.33)

"C.T.6" - Dedalus - (93.33)

"Opening" - Gateway - (92.5)

"Sleeping Giant" - Herbie Hancock - (92.5)

"Prologue/Love, Love" - Julian Priester - (92.5)

"Sea Of Tranquility" - Billy Cobham - (92.5)

"Astral Dreams" - Atmospheres - (92.5)

"Scorpio-Libra" - Eddie Henderson - (92.5)

"Out-Bloody-Rageous" - The Soft Machine - (92.5)

"Purple" - Miroslav Vitous - (92.5)

"Beginning Again" - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - (92.5)

"Nothing Again" - Missus Beastly - (92.5)

"Angel Watch" - Jan Akkerman - (92.5)

"The Muffin Talks Back" - Billy Cobham - (92.5)

"Keep Your Soul Together" - Freddie Hubbard - (92.5)

"Alegries Del Mediterrani" - Iceberg - (92.5)

"Vashkar" - Jaco Pastorius / Pat Metheny / Bruce Ditmas / Paul Bley - (92.5)

"Shamal" - Gong - (92.5)

"Hazard Profile" - The Soft Machine - (92.22)

"Prince and The Sea" - Lenny White - (92)

"Eyes That Can See In The Dark" - Eberhard Weber - (92)

"Hypertension (Hypertenze)" - Modry Efekt (Blue Effect) - (92.0)

"Ostinato (for Angela)" - Herbie Hancock - (92)

"Myror I Köket" - Berits Halsband - (92)

"Pięciobój nowoczesny" - Laboratorium - (91.875)

"No Motion Picture" - Eberhard Weber - (91.875)

"Call to Higher Consciousness" - Larry Coryell - (91.875)

"Alleycat" - Nucleus - (91.667)

"Batuki" - Buster Williams - (91.667)

"Son of Sky Dive" - Freddie Hubbard - (91.6667)

"Boucle d'or" - Bedjabetch - (91.6667)

"Festival Rock / Use the Bridge" - From - (91.43)

"Spectrum" - Tony Williams Lifetime - (91.25)

"Brigitte" - Freddie Hubbard - (91.25)

"Perpetuum II" - Fermáta - (91.25)

"Stratus" - Billy Cobham - (91.25)

"Baraka Sasa" - Freddie Hubbard - (91.25)

"Struggle Of The Sea Turtle" - Jean-Luc Ponty - (91.25)

"Sometime Ago / La Fiesta" - Chick Corea - (91.111)

"The Duel of The Jester and The Tyrant (Parts I & II)" - Return to Forever - (91)

"W Kolysce Dloni Twych (Ojcu)" - SBB - (91)
"Huchen 55, C" - Out Of Focus - (91)

"Wasting Time" - Zyma - (91)

"Povo" - Freddie Hubbard - (91)

"L.S.B." - Out Of Focus - (90.71)

"Leprechaun's Dream" - Chick Corea - (90.667)
"Wassilissa" - Mother Gong * (90.5)

"Imaginary Voyage" - Jean-Luc Ponty - (90.1875)

"Chameleon" - Herbie Hancock - (90)

"Sound Pieces" - Michał Urbaniak Group - (90)

"Slight Touch Of Hepatitis" - Toto Blanke - (90)

"125th Street Congress" - Weather Report - (90)

"The Torture Never Stops" - Frank Zappa - (90)
"Silent Feet" - Eberhard Weber - (90)

"Basic Laws" - Miroslav Vitous - (90)

"Sea Journey" - Stanley Clarke - (90)

"Snakehips Dream" - Nucleus - (90)

"Oceanus" - Ralph Towner - (90)

"Xibaba" - Donald Byrd - (90)

"Khalid of Space, Part Two (Welcome)" - Larry Young - (90)

"Rainbow Seven/Epilogue" - Neil Ardley - (90)

"Gypsy Queen" - Larry Coryell - (90)

"Bumpin' On Sunset" - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - (90)

"Càntics de la carn" - Iceberg - (90)

"Valse De La Mort" - Abraxis - (90)

"Flame-Sky" - Santana - (90)

"Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Parts 1-4" - Stanley Clarke - (90)

"Lungs" - John Abercrombie - (90)

"Theme 3: Rites Of Man" - Ian Carr's Nucleus - (90)

"Huchen 55, B" - Out Of Focus - (90)

"The World of Genius Hans" - Moving Gelatine Plates - (90)

"Space Guerilla" - Missus Beastly - (90)

"Turkish Bath" - The Don Ellis Orchestra - (90)

"Alive And Kicking" - Nucleus - (90)

"Sanctuary" - Miles Davis - (90)

"B.M." - Moose Loose - (90)

"Night Games" - Nova - (90)

"Percolations, Part 1 + Part 2" - Gong - (90)

"Clea" - Matrix - (90)

"Light as a Feather" - Return To Forever - (90)

"Vento, Pioggia e Sole" - Perigeo - (90)

"Chris" - Larry Coryell - (90)

"Spirit Level" - Nucleus - (90)

"A Huchen 55" - Out Of Focus - (90)

"Hidden Shadows" - Herbie Hancock - (90)

"Mechelwind" - Aera - (90)

"Total Eclipse" - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - (90)

"Oasis" - Nucleus - (90)

"Mandarine" - Ex Vitae - (90)

"Black Cards" - Out Of Focus - (90)

"Hit The P. Tit" - Association P.C. - (90)

"Destiny's Children" - Freddie Hubbard - (90)

"One Way" - Stomu Yamash'ta - (90)

"Naxos" - Ian Carr with Nucleus - (90)

"Mujer Extrana (Strange Lady)" - David Axelrod - (90)

"Macho" - Gábor Szábo - (90)

"Deliverance" - Chris Hinze Combination - (90)

"That's Very Easy" - Out Of Focus - (90)

"This Dream" - Freddie Hubbard - (90)