Jeff Beck is a renowned guitarist who played with The Yardbirds in the mid-sixties and was one-third of the Beck, Bogert & Appice supergroup band from the early seventies. His album “Blow By Blow,” released in 1975, was credited as his second solo-work album and is a top-to-bottom instrumentation crossing many genres. George Martin, a producer who famously worked with the Beatles, produced this nearly 45-minute jam of rock, funk, and fusion jazz.

“Thelonius” derives a lot of inspiration from funk music from the time and featured an uncredited Stevie Wonder on this particular track. Thelonius is the name of a famous American jazz pianist who started making music in the early ‘50s. He was a prolific musician whose 12-bar and 32-bar blues forms became jazz standards. The longest track, “Diamond Dust” is an eight-minute and 26-second guitar ballad that brings the album to a heart-warming close. It’s all the quiet parts with melodic strings that blend excellently with his electric guitar—rather than filling the track he tiptoes around the music, jutting in and out as if his guitar was singing in response to the swell around him.