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That does not mean that this final offering under the Jeff Beck Group banner should be dismissed as a mere transitional piece to greater things. Jeff Beck Group' contains "Going Down," one of Beck's best-known tracks and a perennial concert favourite, as well as the album-opening highlight "Ice Cream Cakes. s 'Beck-Ola' introduces us to the Jeff Beck who always prided himself on moments of exceptional playing over the cohesiveness of the product as a whole.The album’s lineup included amazing rock drummer Terry Bazzio and producer keyboardist Tony Hymas who also wrote or co-wrote every song on the album. In addition to being a personal milestone, Blow by Blow ranks as one of the premiere recordings in the canon of instrumental rock music. But it's Beck version with the Jeff Beck Group – including Rod Stewart on vocals and Ron Wood on bass – that stung the hardest. This much recorded chestnut has had several degrees of success depending on who covered it, but Jeff Beck does his version with such grace and a tear inducing arrangement that other than the original, other versions are rendered moot. On 1975’s Blow By Blow and 1976’s Wired he cemented his reputation as a jazz fusionist; 1993’s Crazy Legs paid homage to Gene Vincent; 1999’s Who Else!

If you think the greatest Jeff Beck album isn't ranked highly enough, vote for it so it receives proper credit. With producer Nile Rodgers at the helm, Jeff Beck contributes some fine riffs and melodic bursts to many catchy and cliched 80's AOR lyrics such as "Ambitious", "Nighthawks" and "Gets Us All In The End", but the glorious moment is his reunion with Rod Stewart on the lovely if vain "People Get Ready". The album is influenced by the music of Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock while at the same time Beck was then co-headlining with John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra.

One thing Jeff Beck did not do was steal old blues numbers and take credit for them, as somebody else was infamous for doing. The album opens in the rock genre and moves towards techno jazz/fusion along with ethereal guitar runs. While BBA never succeeded on a visceral level, there are some interesting musical moments to come out of this brief collaboration, but Jeff Beck needed to get serious after this.

s 'You Had It Coming' sees Jeff Beck continue down the electronica, post-rave beat path with what is arguably the second instalment of an accidental trilogy. Blow by Blow did not enter the Gaon Album Chart, but it peaked at number 30 on the component overseas album chart in 2010. Vocals are included on a few numbers with Joss Stone singing “People Get Ready” and Imogen Heap on “Blanket” and “Rollin’ and Tumblin’. If you want to know what is the best Jeff Beck album of all time, this list will answer your question.First of all, there's the band playing on Beck's first solo single, which was recorded while he was still in the Yardbirds: Keith Moon on drums, John Paul Jones on bass and Jimmy Page, who wrote the song, on 12-string guitar.