A
70's band, back when
innovation was still commercially viable (for some),
John McLaughlin fused
rock (LOUD volumes, electric/electronic instruments) with the
improvisation and complexities of
jazz and
Indian classical music (he'd been studying the vina and had become the disciple of a Bengali mystic). Famous alumni from the group(s): TV's Jan Hammer, Billy Cobham,
Jean-Luc Ponty, schlockmeister Narada Michael Walden, Ralphe Armstrong, and Mrs
Chick Corea. Fave:
Birds of Fire.