John Tropea (1975) Tambourine - LOST 70s GEMS

Jazz guitarist John Tropea's instrumental is full of thick, lush funky chords mixing with a soaring analogue synthesizers thick and dirge like or thin ad weeping like strings. There is of course a technical proficient solo, a bed of African percussion and even mild, countrified blues bridge all repeating to keep this classified as your average jazz fusion/disco record of the mid to late 70s. The influence of disco pioneer arrangers like Mike Post and Barry White and the Lover Orchestra who started the turned in 74 are clear in the ending guitar lick.