I've never been a big fan of jazz fusion (mainly due to my indifference to guitar pyrotechnics from rock and the dated "sound effects" feel of groups like Weather Report), but Stanley Clarke is growing on me. I find this deceptively song, "The Dancer," to be hypnotic and multilayered in the best way. For a song from 1976, Clarke sounds like he's from the 1980s in because of the creative combination of Latin rhythms with electronic instruments and rock. It reminds one of the early forays into "worldbeat" by jazz artists as early as the 1950s, further proof of the importance and influence of jazz artists on popular culture and music.
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