Inferno
Context
Title track of Biréli Lagrène's first album for Blue Note, recorded in July 1987 at RPM Studios in New York. The record marks the guitarist's shift, until then seen as the Manouche heir to Django Reinhardt, toward an electric, fusion-oriented style of playing, with Victor Bailey, Bill Evans on tenor, and several drummers including Dave Weckl. Critics praised the guitar while judging the arrangements stiff and the personnel too changeable.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. 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).