Phase Dance
Context
Composed by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, "Phase Dance" appears on the first album by the Pat Metheny Group (ECM), recorded in Oslo in January 1978 with Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb. The album reached No. 5 on Billboard's jazz chart.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to ECM and European jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of ECM and European jazz: Free jazz, Modal, French jazz, Polish jazz, Free improvisation and European free.