I always like Billy Cobham’s stuff. I don’t know how anyone who enjoys jazz could not like his music. There is a lot of fusion built into this, but some of it is traditional jazz, too. We generally land him under prog, both for his work in Mahavishnu Orchestra and because that seems a good place for jazz. However you label the music, though, this is a killer live jazz album.

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Drums lead off here. As the other instruments join it resembles Frank Zappa for a time. It works out to more mainstream fusion from there. After a time with various changes, it drops down to a bass solo that’s a bit strange, but also quite driving. Cobham gets an extended drum solo later in the piece. Then they bring it back out into full group treatment fusion. It still shifts and shakes up the construction quite a bit from there, though.