Wired by Jeff Beck (CD, 1976)

Sony Music Distribution (USA)

4571191050564

5050200037

Max Middleton, Jan Hammer, Jeff Beck, Narada Michael Walden

CD

1976

Hard Rock

Wired

Rock

Personnel: Jeff Beck (guitar); Max Middleton (Clavinet, Fender Rhodes); Jan Hammer (synthesizer, drums); Wilbur Bascombe (bass); Narada Michael Walden, Ed Green, Richard Bailey (drums). Recorded at Air Studios, Trident Studios, London, England; Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, California. Powerful jazz-rock fusion with a touch of funk, WIRED is Beck's follow-up to the popular BLOW BY BLOW. Extending on the blues breakthroughs he made with the Yardbirds, Beck's style had by this time crystalized into something lyric and soaring, showing the influence of John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, while retaining the slightly manic edge that has remained his trademark.

Q (8/01, p.146) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Effectively defined fusion....with a super retooling of the jazz standard 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat'..." Goldmine (7/90) - "the CD does justice to the music's complextities" Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's Beck himself who explores the rhythms and harmonies of each cut, while playing with tonal structures and bouncing ideas off of his colleagues to tremendous affect."

Phantom Import Distributi

Stereo

1

USA