Fusion (Jimmy Giuffre 3 album)


Fusion is a 1961 album by the Jimmy Giuffre 3.
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”.
It was remastered, remixed and re-released by ECM in 1992 as a double-album with the trio's other 1961-Verve recording, Thesis, substituting an alternate take of "Trudgin'" and omitting "Used To Be."

Reception

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".

Track listing

  1. "Scootin' About – 3:39
  2. "Jesus Maria" – 6:17
  3. "Emphasis" – 4:18
  4. "In the Mornings Out There" – 6:54
  5. "Cry, Want" – 5:13
  6. "Trudgin'" – 4:02
  7. "Used to Be'" – 3:58
  8. "Brief Hesitation" – 4:19
  9. "Venture" – 4:00
The original Verve mono LP included the complete take of "Used to Be," while the Verve stereo LP included a version that fades out at approximately 3:40.
Additional tracks on 1992 ECM reissue:
  1. "Trudgin'" - 4:33
  2. "Afternoon" – 5:15
Tracks released on 2016 Emanem Records CD release "Bremen & Stuttgart 1961":
  1. "Trudgin'" – 4:02
  2. "Used to Be'" – 3:58
All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre except as indicated.

Personnel