Ten Supreme Fender Rhodes Albums

[Docbop]

From All About Jazz so before commenting remember it's a Jazz website. 

 

Link to Ten Supreme Fender Rhodes albums:

[SamuelBLupowitz]

Glad to see the Return to Forever Light as a Feather record on there. That album was huge for me in high school. I was playing a lot more bass in those days, so I may have been a little bit more focused on what Stanley Clarke was up to, but every time Chick kicked in the wah pedal on the Rhodes, I was captivated.

[tapes]

Quite an odd selection. Light as a Feather and Head Hunters are a given, but I would’ve picked some Weather Report instead of Zawinul’s solo debut. His Mu-Tron sound on thise WR albums is a classic..but are they “Rhodes albums” in that sense.
 

Pretty much any electric Chick or Herbie up until the late 70’s could make this list in ny book 😀
 

What about some Bob James (like One, or Touchdown with ”Angela”) or George Duke (like Feel, 1974)? 

[NewImprov]

Yeah, while I like most everything on the list, I don't know if all of these would be on my definitive list of Rhodes albums, though Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way certainly would. 

 

I think there could be better modern examples. I've seen Nik Bartsch and Ronin several times and absolutely love his playing, but I'd view him as primarily an acoustic pianist (a brilliant and iconoclastic one) who uses Rhodes as an occasional color. 

[Delaware Dave]

Ramsey lewis' Sungoddess has great rhodes on it...