Furious jazz rock?
 

I'm looking for some hard rock that incorporates jazz elements/organs/keyboards and drumming styles and time signatures. A good reference point would be early Grand Funk Railroad and "Black Friday", "Do It Again" by Steely Dan...recommends? basically a ton of groove.

Steely Dan & GFR...furious jazz rock...really?

well to me. Haha. If you have better ideas I'm all ears. I've been listening to metal my whole life. My tastes are maturing I suppose. And apparently you like The Residents. So I will value your suggestions highly!

I think the Allman Brothers really get sold short in the jazz influenced rock department

Definitely Niacin - YouTube - Niacin - Barbarian @ The Gate , Dennis Chambers band - YouTube - Extraction ~Proto Cosmos~ 2003 , Return to Forever has some crazy jazz fusion stuff - YouTube - Return To Forever (w/Bill Connors) 1974 , also Weather Report - YouTube - Palladium by Weather Report , Cherry Five (nowadays called Goblin, maybe more prog rock than jazz fusion, but hey, still great) - YouTube - Country Grave-yard - Cherry Five
That's for now, if you want more stuff, just say, jazz fusion is THE genre for me.

Erm, well, if you like jazz & metal, and want a "furious combination" of the two:

Cynic - Focus
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Gorguts - Obscura

The gorguts release reminds me of Mingus.

I've heard all those bands but I'm going to get back into them. Biggest problem I have with them is the guitar tone (hard to carry over a distorted metal tone into expressive jazz) and it's lacking in the keyboard department. But it's all great stuff and thanks for jogging my memory about it.

I'd really recommend Kayo Dot's Choirs of the Eye, some post-rock with jazz elements.


This is good to know. I'm always looking out for dark/heavy jazz

With Gorguts, keep in mind their early stuff is traditional DM but their later stuff is where they got weird...

Anyways, I forgot Painkiller. Painkiller is John Zorn on sax/some vox, Bill Laswell on bass, and Mick Harris on drums & some programing. I'm not familiar with Bill Laswell, but John Zorn brings his saxophone, and Mick Harris - ex Napalm Death - brings his Grindcore and Dub inclinations to the fold. "Guts of a Virgin" is my favorite album by them.

Eh, I like a lot of old school metal, so I tend to look past the instruments being used and to how they're being used. Further, I think if a band can recreate a jazz experience using the same instruments Chuck Berry used.... well, that's all the more amazing.

Not familiar with Laswell? For shame ;)

Furious jazz rock ye say????
Here be all ye need!


:) Love that video

Though I guess some might be soft and want their more accessible stuff :( :p: