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Dixie Dregs · 1978 · Pièce de sept minutes, reprise par Dream Theater

Context

Long composition by Steve Morse on What If, recorded with Ken Scott, producer of Birds of Fire. Dream Theater and James Murphy have covered it.

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).

By the same artist

• Take It Off the Top (1978)
• Night Meets Light (1978)
• Country House Shuffle (1979)
• Long Slow Distance (1979)

Sources

• EN: What If (Dixie Dregs album)

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