Fusion (album)

Fusion
Studio album by Jimmy Giuffre
Released	1961
Recorded	March 3, 1961 Olmstead Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz, West Coast jazz, cool jazz, third stream, chamber jazz
Label	Verve Records, reissued by ECM, 1992
Producer	Creed Taylor
Jimmy Giuffre chronology
The Jimmy Giuffre Quartet in Person (1960) Fusion (1961) Thesis (1961)

Fusion is a 1961 album by the Jimmy Giuffre 3.^[1]

The trio on the recording was Giuffre's second drummerless group. He said at the time that the trio was “searching for a free sense of tonality and form”.^[2]

It was remastered, remixed and re-released by ECM in 1992 as a double-album with the trio's other 1961-Verve recording, Thesis (with three previously unissued tracks from the August sessions).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "The debut recording by Jimmy Giuffre's new trio was as startling a new development in Giuffre's music as it was in jazz... The elegance and grace of this album didn't set the American jazz world on fire as Free Fall would the next year, but it did set up further textural and architectural possibilities for the trio's next album, Thesis".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Jesus Maria" (Carla Bley) – 6:17
2. "Emphasis" – 4:18
3. "In the Mornings Out There" (Carla Bley) – 6:54
4. "Scootin' About – 3:39
5. "Cry, Want" – 5:13
6. "Brief Hesitation" – 4:19
7. "Venture" – 4:00
8. "Afternoon" – 5:15
9. "Trudgin'" – 4:33

All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre except as indicated.

Personnel

• Jimmy Giuffre - clarinet
• Paul Bley - piano
• Steve Swallow - bass

References

1. Fitzgerald, M., Jimmy Giuffre discography, accessed June 29, 2014
2. Quoted by Steve Lake in sleevenotes for 1992 reissue
3. Jurek, T., Allmusic Review accessed June 26, 2014