Herbie Hancock from 1973 (although we didn't discover this LP until about 1977). In addition to Herbie on Fender Rhodes, this track features Patrick Gleeson on synthesizer, Eddie Henderson on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Bennie Maupin on soprano sax, and a rhythm section of Buster Williams (bass) and Billy Hart (drums).
Sextant was the last album of Hancock's early '70s Mwandishi period, when he first started experimenting with electronics, funk, and fusion, and predates the more commercially successful Headhunters era. Julian Cope once remarked that this song, "contains elements of early electronica that might today be described as ambient - kind of like Tangerine Dream if they were a space-funk band mixed with Pomme Fritz-era Orb. Certainly, the sounds within stand up to today's stuff. The instruments kind of sway around each other . . . little solo pieces set off by electronic bubblings and spurglings."
I consider it validation that around 1979 or 1980, a college roommate hearing me play this song told me that I had "the worst taste in music ever."
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