Stanley Clarke - Journey to Love (1975)

The Return to Forever bassist's second solo album has to be one of the most enthralling jazz-rock LPs of the '70s. There's some first-rate music here, with inspired contributions by top-drawer players like Chick Corea, George Duke, Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin and Clarke's RTF comrade Lenny White.

The two parts of the acoustic trio jam 'Song to John'(Clarke, McLaughlin, Corea), which take the proceedings to a higher plane, bristle with frenetic exchanges that never failed to awe and mesmerise me.