1000 People Bookmarked This Album List

32 hand-picked jazz, fusion, and jazz adjacent records from 1977 to dive into.

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I love Songwhip because it makes it easy to share albums and songs across many digital/streaming platforms. I wish more music-related tech worked like this, in a way that most benefits the listener.

After many years of making playlists and Twitter threads that conclude with a playlist of the featured songs, I’ve enjoyed making Twitter threads that focus on albums instead of individual songs. Several have done quite well and I want to share more of the most popular threads.

The one I’m sharing with you today is a collection of jazz, fusion, and jazz-adjacent records from 1977. Over 1,000 people have bookmarked this thread on Twitter so far. It’s a great collection that covers a broad spectrum of sounds and styles. No matter your preference, you should be able to find something that resonates.

I hope you take the time to give a few of these a spin if you haven’t already. Click the link to any album below if you want to listen and the Songwhip link will redirect you to the appropriate place.

As always, please let me know what you think and if you have any additions you’d like to recommend.

1. Straight From The Gate by The Headhunters

2. Friends And Strangers by Ronnie Laws

3. Heavy Weather by Weather Report

4. Come Into Knowledge by RAMP

5. Multiplication by Eric Gale

6. Smiles Ahead by Michal Urbaniak's Fusion

7. Slow Traffic To The Right by Bennie Maupin

8. Live at the Bijou by Grover Washington, Jr.

9. Free Ride by Dizzy Gillespie

10. Sweet Lucy by Raul De Souza

11. Kirkatron by Rahsaan Roland Kirk

12. Miroslav by Miroslav Vitous

13. In Flight by George Benson

14. Love Notes by Ramsey Lewis

15. Ruby, Ruby by Gato Barbieri

16. African Violet by Blue Mitchell

17. Jazzberry Patch by Jazzberry Patch

18. Sky Islands by Caldera

19. Happiness Heartaches by Brian Auger's Oblivion Express

20. The View From The Inside by Bobby Hutcherson

21. Reach For It by George Duke

22. Free As The Wind by The Crusaders

23. Soaring by Barney Kessel

24. Promise Me The Moon by David Sanborn Band

25. Jiří Válek by Jiří Válek and Konstelace Josefa Vobruby

26. Iguaçu by Passport

27. Tico Rico by Hank Crawford

28. Comin' Through by Eddie Henderson

29. Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana by Alice Coltrane

30. Musicmagic by Return To Forever

31. Love Play by Mike Mainieri

32. Big City by Lenny White

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