Jeff Beck - Wired

Beck’s bandmates wrote seven of the eight instrumental tracks for this album, released a year after Blow By Blow, in 1976. Despite this, it’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. Consequently, he’s more jazz bandleader than rock guitar god, as exemplified on a cover of Charles Mingus’ Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. That said, while not strictly a jazz-fusion record, fans of that genre will laud Beck’s performances.