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Context
Track from Offramp (ECM), recorded in October 1981 in New York (8 min 32). Third studio album by the Pat Metheny Group, the first with the Roland GR-300 guitar synthesizer; it won a Grammy.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, ECM and European jazz. Among the origins and influences of Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk: Modal, Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop, Free jazz, Brazilian instrumental music, Indo-jazz, Modern big bands, Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais).