What are some progressive rock groups/albums that do improvisation/jam

Krautrock is just a label for German prog & experimental rock.

So Amon Duul

All the Canterbury stuff, but that's pretty much the English version of Krautrock.

>>69933689
But the English version of Krautrock is just normal Prog rock.

We did it first.
And Canterbury is a Town in England, the reason it's called Canterbury Scene is simply the pioneers of the style were from Canterbury.

i somehow ended up listening to 'slightly all the time' today and being totally blown away

i don't really care for jazz at all in general and i remember trying to listen to this album before and being totally turned off for some reason

need to give it another listen

Gentle Giant

Third is basically jazz fusion with studio editing.
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>>69933689
This. The terms prog, psych, krautrock, canterbury, are all very closely knit. So check out any of these.

King Crimson
Henry Cow
Matching Mole
Hatfield & the North
Can
Amon Duul, but even more so - Amon Duul II

Also, let's not forget the true pioneers here, The Mothers of Invention were beginning to fuse prog/classical composition, jazz improvisation, and psychedelia back in like '66.

'Murrica!

>>69933864
That's funny, I had the horn melody of that tune stuck in my head for a brief time today.

>>69934077
Wait, what else KC done outside of like Moonchild that is improv jams?

And which Mothers stuff has the improv jams? I only listened to that Brain Police song and it sounds like musique concrete.

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Really? Wouldn't have thought so. First impression of their music makes them seem compositionally next level complex.

>>69933560
frances the mute, and mars volta's album after that

>>69934189
Not him but you can't really go wrong with the mothers' 60s stuff. Some of it is more poppy, but it gets pretty heavily into experimental/improv stuff, especially uncle meat. Hot rats is more of a fusion album - it's pretty similar to third, and it's probably his "best" album

>>69934189
There's not a lot, but there's a but of improvisation between Larks Tongues and Red:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhudDa3JAyc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FNiK73zqm4

It's must easier to demonstrate with the Mothers. If Freak Out is all you've heard then you're in for an awakening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQWHNFZ2RE

You may have noticed the conducting signals and be thinking, wait, if Frank is conducting the band, it must be fixed and composed...

... But you'd be wrong. It's well documented that Frank's unique conducting signals were directions for the band to play specific time signatures, change dynamics, and make various noises and effects on the fly. They were not premeditated, therefore still improvising. The band was just that disciplined.

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Holy shit I didn't know Zappa did the conducting/improv thing. I saw the house (now kinda jazz) artist Floating Points do something similar when he came here to the states last year. Zappa really was ahead of his time.