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FUSION-THE-COLOR-PURPLE-XTRA

Date: 06 Aug 2025
By: dave hogerty
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Miami Beach

“Purple House”
Prince
2004 — Power of Soul (A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix)
((( * )))

 

“California Purples”
Chicago Transit Authority

1971 — Live at Carnegie Hall
((( xtra )))

 

Blood Sweat and Tears
Tower of Power
Electric Flag
Pacific Gas & Electric

PURPLE PLAYLIST

As the electric guitar pushed the saxophone to second chair in the Rock N Roll movement of the 1950s, twenty five years later, it was the synthesizers and the electric keyboards that took the lead in shaping the sound emerging from the collision between Jazz  and Rock musics, but the Electric Guitar remained a Lead Instrument in a new genre, becoming known as “Fusion.” Electric Jazz, or Jazz Rock. 

“Without the electric guitar, there would be no ‘Fusion.’

— Lenny White (Bitches Brew, Return to Forever) Drums

“Purple Haze“
Jimi Hendrix
1967 — Are You Experienced
((( Psychedelic )))

vgs.

Cosmic Messenger (Jean-Luc Ponty)
Cosmic Strut (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Cosmic Slop (Funkadelic)
Cosmic Indigo (Lenny White)
Cosmic Hug (Global Noize)
Cosmik Debris (Frank Zappa)

JAZZIZ THE ART OF NOISE
JAZZIZ (VISUAL ARTISTS)
MUSIC.COM (MAGAZINE)

JAZZIZ (ART FOR YOUR EARS)
JAZZIZ (20th ANNIVERSARY)
JAZZIZ (COVERS)
MUSIC.COM (MAGAZINE)

The Holy Trinity of Jazz
When Jazz met the electric guitar

The Holy Trinity of Rock
When the Blues got Hard

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Pink Floyd
Blue Oyster Cult (Astronomy)
Yellowjackets
Agent Orange
Green Day
King Crimson

Cosmic Records
Jean-Luc Ponty
Imaginary Voyage
Blow By Blow 
Stormbringer
Steve Khan
Yellowjackets
Larry Carlton
Lee Ritenour
George Benson
CTI (Creed Taylor Inc.)
Crusaders
Stuff
Sea Level
Spyro Gyra
Earth Wind & Fire
Funkadelic
Parliament
P-Funk
Contact
Carl Sagan‘s Cosmic Message In A Bottle 
1977 — Voyager
nasa.gov
Jules Verne
Christopher Columbus
Neil Armstrong
Juan Ponce de Leon
Mel Fisher

1978 — Disco Fever (Sucks?)
Elton John
Bee Gees
Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
Studio 54 (Movie)
Paradise Garage (Larry Levan)
“The Loft” (David Mancuso)
Rick James v. Ron Carter
The Last Poets
Gil Scott-Heron

Hip-Hop Happens
1979 —

THE ORIGINAL SUGAR HILL RHYTHM SECTION
Skip “Little Axe” McDonald (guitar)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
Keith LeBlanc (drums)
Living Colour
Tack>>Head
Little Axe (Skip McDonald)
Bernard Fowler (vocals)
Back to Fla.
1970s?
GAINESVILLE SCREAMING (1972)
INNOVATION, DISASTER, AND MURDER (1980)
JUST SAY GO TO MTV, AND NASA’S RETURN TO SPACE (1981)
JUST SAY NO TO EVERTHING (1982)
SATURDAY IN THE PARK (1982)
GOING TO NEW YORK (1983)
1980s — Just Say No
1980 — Ronald Reagan
1981 — Shuttle
1982 — No Nukes
NYC Central Park June 12, 1982
“No Sell Out” (Malcolm X)

1983 — 12″ Single
w/ Betty Shabazz (Malcolm’s widow)
((( Hip-Hop’s Original Beat )))

Keith LeBlanc

1984 — BEAT STREET, Herbie Hancock Sound-System,Keith LeBlanc (“King Of The Beat”) “NO SELL OUT” (Malcolm X) vs. Sugar Hill Records (Joe and Sylvia Robinson vs. Keith with Betty Shabazz).

Living Colour
1985 — Live Aid
Mick Jagger & Tina Turner
Farm Aid
We Are The World
Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones
Artists United Against Apartheid
Miami Vice
Adrian Sherwood, On-U Sound
Fat’s Comet,
Gary Clail
Mark Stewart
Bernard Meets Mick w/Bill Laswell
She’s The Boss.
Jeff Beck Flash
w/ Jimmy Hall, Rod Stewart, Nile Rodgers,Carmine Appice, and Arthur Baker (Producer) 
1986 — Jeff BeckFlashJan Hammer, Simon Phillips, Doug Wimbish, Steve Lukather, (TOKYO)
1987 — Living Colour Vivid, Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction, Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien
1988 — The Young Americans
The Second Coming of Mick
Primitive Cool  (The Brothers of Sodom)

1989 —

1990 —

“ObliGhetto”
1991 — A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
((( LISTEN )))

 

Alan Lomax

Muddy Waters w/ Rolling Stones
@ The Checkerboard Lounge (Chicago)
November 22, 1981 — In the middle of their American Tour, The Rolling Stones arrived three days early and did a three-night stand at Chicago’s Rosemont Horizon Hotel, before the scheduled show that weekend.

— Checkerboard Lounge

Long influenced by the Chicago blues, the band paid a visit to Buddy Guy’s club the Checkerboard Lounge to see the legendary bluesman perform. It didn’t take long before Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Ian Stewart were joining in on stage and later Buddy Guy and Lefty Dizz also played their part.

It was a unique occasion that was fortunately captured on camera.
Now, restored from the original footage and with sound mixed and mastered by Bob Clearmountain, this amazing blues night is being made available in an official release for the first time.

 

Herbie Hancock

“Time Passages”
Al Stewart
Peter White (guitar)
((( year of the cat )))

 

“Feel Like Flying”
Gino Vanelli
Jimmy Haslip (bass guitar)
((( Vocal Fusion )))

 

“The River Must Flow”
Gino Vanelli
Jimmy Haslip (bass guitar)
((( Vocal Fusion )))

 

 

“South California Purples“
Chicago
1969 — Chicago Transit Authority
((( Rock Horns )))

Terry Kath

Chicago

Blood Sweat and Tears
Tower of Power
Electric Flag
Pacific Gas & Electric

b.lue
THE COLOR PURPLE
POST APOCALYPTIC BLUES
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN (PG1)
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN (PG2) YARDBIRDS
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN (PG3) ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN (PG4) TIMELINE
THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN (PG5) DEVIL MUSIC
BLUE (GUITAR)
GUITAR LIST #1 (ELECTRIC EVOLUTION)
GUITAR LIST #2 (SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL)

•SURFING WITH THE ALIEN / GO WEST (1989)

 

 

“The Freaks Come Out at Night”
Whodini
1984 — Afrika Baambaata, Rick James, and Pat Benatar Connection. An Electronic, Hip-Hop, Funk, Punk, and Rock N Roll Collision for a New Wave.
((( hip-hop rising )))

Edgar Winter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The Story Of Willie”
King Missile (downtown nyc)
((( >>> )))

1989 — Bill Hicks
Viciously Honest ( “American Screamer” )
“The Gospel According To Bill Hicks” (GQ)

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[ Blue ] 

cont’d #2

“The Color Purple”
Rainbow
Before the Rainbow was Gay
((( Voyagers)))