A 70's band, back when innovation was still commercially viable (for some), John McLaughlin fused rock (LOUD volumes, electric/electronic instruments) with the improvisation and complexities of jazz and Indian classical music (he'd been studying the vina and had become the disciple of a Bengali mystic). Famous alumni from the group(s): TV's Jan Hammer, Billy Cobham, Jean-Luc Ponty, schlockmeister Narada Michael Walden, Ralphe Armstrong, and Mrs Chick Corea. Fave: Birds of Fire.