J-Fusion Band Dimension Best Live

[dream23dimension]

erotic jazz fusion

[KelbyVu]

I Love You

[JoshuaMorseMusic]

Amazing.

[51362879]

Who's the five fags that voted thumbs down?

[DadGarbage]

they dont rock... they jazz ;D

[BrickFrigid]

Can someone please tell me the name of this song?

[jinsak]

@BrickFrigid The title is "La.di.da Woman". Live at Roppongi PIT INN(Tokyo), 17 Dec 1995.

[EstebanAraque]

EXCELLENT, VERY VERY NICE, WONDERFUL SOUND OF SAX

[Holdsyfan]

OMGGGGG!!!! JAPAN!!! HERE I COME!!! 

[mastersgta1]

This is the most "ballsy" fusion song out there. Fresh, innovative contemporary sound compare to the north american fusion which sound about 20 years old even with the new materials. People need to stop reusing old stuff that's getting stale.

Kudo to the Japanese musicians for making some wonderful innovatioins! Unfortunetly most of us out here don't get to hear it...

[cmccabe07921]

@mastersgta1 there is some great new American jazz fusion. Ever hear of Wayne Krantz?

[mastersgta1]

@cmccabe07921

Chris Potter's old guitar player with the underground? Yeah. But then you run into other problems. His stuff is very complicated... very much like Potter. Unless you have trained ears and are familiar with bebop-like improve it's very hard to follow. When nobody buys your CD then you have no funding...

[cmccabe07921]

@mastersgta1 Might be hard to follow but that doesn't preclude "great" and "new", right? Nor do sales factor into this discussion. Krantz's CD is on his website for anyone to buy. But yeah, it's not as approachable as J-Fusion (note, J-Fusion is not new, either). Holdsworth, my favorite for the last 25 years, is also complicated and not easily approachable for the uninitiated. He has some new material coming out this year or early next that should be good.

[cmccabe07921]

@mastersgta1 Oh yeah, I would also add Alex Machacek to the list of new(ish) and great "Jazz Fusion" type players. Another complicated player but oh so worth it.

[mastersgta1]

@cmccabe07921

Yeah, I personally do enjoy players that can come up with phrases that makes you wonder "what were they smoking?" But then every once in a while I like to go back to something more melodic in nature and seems like all the good players here in NA tend to play really really "out". And all the melodic stuff sounds really cheesy. This one particular song by these guys gets a very good balance. That's why I like them.

[cmccabe07921]

@mastersgta1 I'll go along with that, to an extent (on the "cheesy melodic stuff") but I think the fault lies mostly with the American listening public who seems (generalizing here) less adventurous and open than the Japanese audiences who like everything, it seems. There were bands out there like Tribal Tech and Aquarium Rescue Unit that were fascinatingly fresh and very skilled, but that's not "new" per se. I'm not sure who is truly new exactly. I know there is a lot of stuff "out there".

[TheFigueroa007]

@cmccabe07921 You should also add Guthrie Govan to the new America fusion guitarists list. His only album out, Erotic Cakes is a brilliant masterpiece.

[mastersgta1]

@TheFigueroa007

LOL, Guthrie Govan is British. Yes, his new fusion is excellent! But it didn't come out of America.

[vithaj92]

@mastersgta1 Check out Dave Weckls eariler work, Masterplan, Heads up and Hard Wired, thats some incredibly great fusion.

[PlomiennyJacus]

fuck yes, them crazy japanese!

[CAROLUK]

OMG. i love it!

[Af3r92]

oh my god. I have no words.. incredible..

[MrCelamoi]

Perfect ::)

[RONNSAX]

si a , este saxifonisat esta alnivel de rangel sanborn marienthal a es bueno a podria codearse con ellos a pero bueno es cuestion de gustos

[Zerathul7]

OMG great sound  in my top 5 bands definitely

[OddworldMusic]

it upsets me that the audi quality is all crackled. This deserves more justice.

[mantatnam]

this "j-fusion" is one stupid label....this is groovy music thats all.

[goowa69]

Sooooo fun to listen to!!!!

Fucking awesome band. Diggin it!

[catapei]

what s the name of this keyboard player??

he s the same of greg howe, sakurai and chambers live dvd :D

[hypersonic12]

I'm dying trying to find CD's of these guys. Why does J-Fusion have to be from Japan? :P

[Jcthefluteman]

they're on iTunes, just search 'Dimensions' and all those albums are theirs. unfortunately they haven't released this track on CD... :(

[murdukwatson]

lol Their name is actually "Dimension", J(Jazz)-Fusion is the Genre of music being played.

[hypersonic12]

J-Fusion actually stands for "Japanese Fusion," but it is heavily influenced by jazz.

[51362879]

This is just plain, straight-up cool!

5****!

[Truelight0]

Awesome guys ! good job!

[mastersgta1]

@sonicBlue00

This is "La Di Da Women" from "Fifth Dimension"

[SOLDADODEMONIACO]

i love dimension!!!incredible sax,guitar,drums,keyboards,bas­s!!!!this song is very powerfull

[51362879]

Absolutely right!

[RebornGuitarLearner]

The Japanese are excellent at whatever they put their minds too.

Not that others aren't capable. We all are if only we focus.

But at the same time they almost desperately want to be Western. I wish that they clung more ardently to their own culture and beliefs.

This song, while wonderful and fulfilling to me in every aspect, just has too many qualities of an American/Canadian sound.

Wouldn't it be cool to see a band like this but with more Japanese elements to the song structure?

[CaldeAilis]

And American white Jazz players have to have more country music flavor! Right?

Jokes aside, cutural flavor is always good. But apparently this what they got and what wanted to play, so let them just be themselves.

[RebornGuitarLearner]

Lol. You're absolutely right.

But you must forgive my bigotry. I just observe that the Japanese try to be anything but themselves.

[rantarave]

I honestly think of any great japanese composers or musicians off the top of my head kyle.

[RebornGuitarLearner]

Lol

[loveyoufolks]

You misunderstand Japanese. They (and we) are not trying to be westeners but just to be ourselves, doing what we think is good and cool. Adding intentionally flavor of ethinicity will make them look like a clown.

[RebornGuitarLearner]

And what you think is good and cool just happens to be in a Western image.

Why would adding their ethnicity make them look like a clown? That's unfortunate if you think that about your own culture. I think it would be cool if they did that!

[loveyoufolks]

Adding our own things to something western is good but music or art should be sheer expression of the artist self, so if a Japanese "wants" to express Japanese things in his art, it is good. But if he attempts to gain something original ethnically for applaud from people, it is wrong. Have you ever watched Japanese things in Youtube? We are more original than any other nation, I think. We are doing everything for ourselves not reputation from others.

[HikariNoNanaki]

@RebornGuitarLearner Try out Hiroshima. Maybe you've heard, and I know this comment is over a year old xD

[fusionshredder]

@RebornGuitarLearner I feel you, but jazz and rock were introduced to them by westerners during WWII, nothing like it existed in their country before then; if they combined their native sound to music, we'd end up with more Naruto soundtracks, lol

[Inferno350]

@RebornGuitarLearner Where do you get off saying "they almost desperately want to be Western"? Why does a sound or structure have to be limited by its origins? If you like a type of music you should pursue it regardless of where it comes from or what your country's culture would dictate that you play.

[cmccabe07921]

@Inferno350 u took the words out of my mouth, well said.

[cmccabe07921]

@RebornGuitarLearner I think it's nice to appreciate it for what it is; I'm sure there are bands representative of Japanese cultural and ethnic music. This band has no responsibility on its shoulders to incorporate a traditional sound because of their race. They're clearly picking a genre and they're excelling in it. It's like saying why don't Scottish American kids in a rock band play bagpipes.

[machinsky108]

@RebornGuitarLearner

no offense, but your comment really does rub a lot of people that play music (including myself) the wrong way. would you the majority of japanese people play shamisen or sing noh opera? try not to classify a sound as "american" or "canadian." it is called "FUSION" for a reason.

[RebornGuitarLearner]

@machinsky108 Even Fusion isn't immune to classification and influences. Depending on where the musicians come from, their sound will be affected accordingly by the culture there. All I'm saying is that the Japanese have tried to duplicate Western culture, not just in music, but in pretty well everything. And I find that kind of unfortunate.

[chingchangpingpong]

@RebornGuitarLearner

yes... yours are the words of an obvious outsider. yes, japanese people have their government, economy, and fashion modeled after western culture. not their way of thinking though, if that means anything to you..

[basstax]

@RebornGuitarLearner They make it their own. Everyone jacks everyone else's style. It's music it's for the world not just one country. Your statement is dumb. Yes people take a style and learn it but then they expand upon it.

[carleido]

..che spettacolo!!!

[3e3op88]

These guys are TIGHT!

[mastersgta1]

Very Inspiring! Combine the sophisticated harmony of jazz with the energy of the contemporary rock music and you get this! These guys totally ROCKS!

btw, Sax player has some monster chops... and the guitar guy sure knows how to shred it!

[rantarave]

yeah thats called fusion dumbass rock and jazz.

[mastersgta1]

Not quite, the fusion sound started in the 70's bares very little resemblance to these guys. I personally don't like the word fusion and neither does Michael Brecker...

This is something else, something that totally transcends above the generic term of "fusion".

Ernie Watts, his contemporary stuff has very typical "fusion" sound. Look up "Looking Glass"...

[rantarave]

HAHA this sounds exactly like Video Games no joke.

[vithaj92]

@mastersgta1 I didnt know Michael Brecker didnt like that word. Why? What did he call his own music? I mean the things he played with Casiopea, steps ahead and some of his solo stuff was also very different to the 70's fusion of RTF, Miles and Cobbham.

[CMejenes]

very nice, i like the sax.

[foreverhoper]

nicE!!.

[vergo890]

Yeah, the song 'La-di-da Woman' is also in their album '5th Dimension' which is now available in iTunes.

Out of their 21 albums, my favorite one is probably the 13th Dimension which is the best live recording performance I've ever heard.

[hermandrum]

feel like casiopea... haha

[bill4077]

cool!

[Soldano88]

nice groove,good musicianship.they all work well together.each part makes sense,very musical but still very fun.

[AYREACOUSTICS]

Nice band

[VorsichtFalle]

the guitarist has been heavily inspired by steve vai i think.

[bonjovi88]

more like Steve Lukather

[Johnohpro8]

The saxaphone in a different perspective i've never heard. so cool

my idols :)

so cool

[SENSOUHANTAI]

Whats is the name of this music

[kulamdaparim]

Japaneese-Fusion?

[vithaj92]

@kulamdaparim Yes, it is labeled that way because it often have a rockier or more pop-like feeling to it, compared to western fusion.

[wtfgoohc]

The name of this music is "La-di-da Woman".

[dpunero]

These Guys rock.. They rock !!! Thumbs up ..!!

[alexcisebastian]

tremenda bandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Saxmaster1230]

whos playin keyboards?

[clkao]

the name of keyboardist is 小野塚晃 (Akira Onozuka).

[DelMkVI]

Wow! What a sound - any CDs out yet. This is better than you hear on the radio. Sounds like a hot Morrisey/Mullen track. What year is the sax and which mouthpiece?

[clkao]

it might be taken from a live at 1995/12/17.

the name of Sax. player is 勝田一樹 (Kazuki Katsuta).

they have published 21 albums (include 1 EP),

and 2 DVDs now.

[prabangkara20]

Fuckin' COOL!!!

Amazing music!!!

[drumstick70]

Nice Sound Love it