To keep this going: Mahavishnu Orchestra
The most intense music that could ever be conceived of as jazz. Well maybe except John Zorn's work like Naked City. Anway MO could be brutal, elegant, funky...whatever. And whatever they did they did well. Their first two albums are both jazz fusion classics "The Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds of Fire" but you'd be hard-pressed even today to find a group with more passion in their playing than Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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