I had this album and wore the grooves off it. We were all musicians and this guy stopped us in our tracks. Hell this tune has REAL STRINGS! Jan brought something to the table that will influence generations to come. Glad the youngsters can listen to how dynamic he is. A master of changing volume and attack to accent the colors of the song.
i was walking in a mall in temple,texas in the late 70's when this came on over the speakers in the food court. i refused to move from my spot until i found out who and what this was. bless utube for allowing what i thought was lost music to be heard again.
A fabulous 5 star tune. Granada TV (UK) used this as late night continuity music, which is where I first heard it in the late 70s. It is one of the finest pieces of music to drive to, particularly in the rain... I love that fact that it hits the spot with people all over the world
Thank you for posting this. Two Detroit Stations used to play this during the day: 107.5 WGPR and 106 WJZZ which has been gone for about 14 years now (sadly). LOVE THIS!
Yes in Indeed. My Father sent me some WJZZ stickers he found somewhere in Detroit. WJZZ was a staple in my home, and family members also. #pontiacmichigan
HOt HOt Hot, there nuthin negative or not enuff positive to compete with this track, great, Thank Jan. this makes all the worlds problem go away when i listen to this, time stops, its a wonderful feeling
im probably the only 15 year old to ever search this song lol. I love it!!! im from Detroit as well even tho I live in Myrtle Beach now but my dad play this kinda stuff in the car alot and I just love this vibe
I keep coming back to this. For so many reasons, I just think this sums Jan up so totally, so beautifully. It's musically so open ended. I have to thank you for posting this & letting me experience the best of Jan.
Funny, reading thru these comments I seem to find a lot of Detroiters up in here,...welcome to my world, follow the music to your heart's...and ear's desires. If you build it....they will listen. THIS IS JAZZ MUSIC, W-J-Z-Z, I am the Jazzy 1.
In 1978 my music evolution made me a fan of progressive rock which led me to an appreciation of the Dutch band Focus which turned me on to band members Thijs Van Leer and Jan Akkerman's private albums including this.
I was just about to say the same thing. WJZZ played so much dope stuff it was like a crate diggers dream come true! And just like a crate digger, they never said who the damn artist was half the time. It was pure luck that i happened to have some internet radio stationon & i find this joint, sad but true.
Thanks for posting this...this is one of my all time favorites and I have been looking for this for soooo long.I love listening to this at night...especially while I'm driving.Thank you. :)
Very hard to find this excellent album on the streaming services. I received this album unexpectedly because I was reviewing albums for my college newspaper. A fusion album with soul...
Oh, thank you! I was starting to think maybe I had the dude's name wrong or something. I-Can't-Find-This-Anywhere! And every time I search Jan Akkerman I get a style so completely different I can't believe it's the same guy. THIS is what I been tryin' to find!
My fafourite Akkerman track. I belief he had been listening to Johnny Guitar Watson, he has never played that funky before! Great stuff and a very cool. Undutch sound for that time.
Jan will never get the praise he should cause Focus were never as mainstream as other bands of the time. But he was and still is a outstanding guitar player and he allways will be remebered as such. Jan Akkerman plays top notch stuff all the time.
@BlahZayy1190 you´ll understand when you´re 20.......the music will stay in your head forever and will always remind you of a special moment. i´m only 44 but i understand the older people....but you are right, just listen, incredible good music. gr. from the Netherlands
If you like Jan's jazz fusion you will probably like Jeff Beck as well. Check out his albums 'Blow By Blow' and 'Wired'. Both mid-late seventies albums like this one.
Yeah, man. To HD41117 & incrediblecHiller, it was one of those rare moments in time & space where everything is absolutely perfect, and I remember having the presence of mind to recognize it then...
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This is the theme of my youth! I absolutely love this song! Thank you Rosetta Hines for making good Jazz like this available to so many!
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Was that Rosetta Hines from WJZZ Detroit's jazz radio at 105.9FM? She was very good and had very good taste!
I had this album and wore the grooves off it. We were all musicians and this guy stopped us in our tracks. Hell this tune has REAL STRINGS! Jan brought something to the table that will influence generations to come. Glad the youngsters can listen to how dynamic he is. A master of changing volume and attack to accent the colors of the song.
Definitely one of the best jazzrock albums ever made in this country !!
Dank je wel Jan.
i was walking in a mall in temple,texas in the late 70's when this came on over the speakers in the food court. i refused to move from my spot until i found out who and what this was. bless utube for allowing what i thought was lost music to be heard again.
Jan Akkerman, what a technician. Great rock, jazz, classical & fusion guitarist. Need I say more!
This album is a treasure ! Only perfection ! I hear it since 1978 and i never get bored of it
One of my fathers nicest joints he did, im releasin and uploadin some joints i did with him as well
greetings
walingh akkerman
I think I did too. I remember this from when I was little. I'm 25 now, grew up in Detroit on this stuff. LOVE IT!!!
I met him in Athens before the concert, he is in 5 top guitarists of this planet. He is Ajax fan.
WJZZ Detroit played this my entire childhood in the 70's!!
+makoolatheruler I wish we did have some! Shame!
+Sonya's favorite DEEEETROIT! WE'RE THE MOST JAZZY PEOPLEON EARTH!
A fabulous 5 star tune. Granada TV (UK) used this as late night continuity music, which is where I first heard it in the late 70s. It is one of the finest pieces of music to drive to, particularly in the rain... I love that fact that it hits the spot with people all over the world
Detroiter in Dallas....so many memories...Mojo ...WJZZ.....Rosetta Hines....I was a kid but loved the vibe back then
Thank you for posting this.
Two Detroit Stations used to play this during the day: 107.5 WGPR and 106 WJZZ which has been gone for about 14 years now (sadly).
LOVE THIS!
Cranberry333 I miss them 2 radio stations
Yes in Indeed. My Father sent me some WJZZ stickers he found somewhere in Detroit. WJZZ was a staple in my home, and family members also. #pontiacmichigan
HOt HOt Hot, there nuthin negative or not enuff positive to compete with this track, great, Thank Jan. this makes all the worlds problem go away when i listen to this, time stops, its a wonderful feeling
From my childhood this song has always been in my mind, absolutely fantastic an great guitar
Still the best mix of this toon. As Puma says...no boundries. This music is timeless. Thanks Jan
I remember this album as one of my favorite sounds to take me to a place of serenity when as a young man going through a very aweful 1st marriage.
God, does this bring back memories. I practically worshiped Akkerman and Focus back then.
The best dutch album ever produced , timeless !
the guitar tones, string section & synthesizer...OMG!
I just love this piece, my all time favorite since the 70
Jan Akkerman最高です。アタックに効いたピッキング泣けます。
I bet The Electrifying Mojo never knew how many lives he influenced playing this jam. Those of us from Detroit 70's 80's, we KNOW this track very well
I use to love opening my show with this ...back in the day on 90.5 "The Jazz Station" in Tallahassee.
im probably the only 15 year old to ever search this song lol. I love it!!! im from Detroit as well even tho I live in Myrtle Beach now but my dad play this kinda stuff in the car alot and I just love this vibe
you aren't the only 15 year old.
I loved this song as a teen back in the 2010s. I love the sound and soul in it
Joshua Grace i heard this tune on the only jazz station in Detroit, WJZZ, back in 81 and was hooked. Jan Ackerman is from Sweden.
I keep coming back to this. For so many reasons, I just think this sums Jan up so totally, so beautifully. It's musically so open ended. I have to thank you for posting this & letting me experience the best of Jan.
Used to hear this way back on the radio. Loved it then and now.
my favorite jazz/fusion album since ever...I hear it since i was ten years old
it's simply an amazing record
One of my JazzFunk Favorites! Ever!
Ein echtes Highlight!
Funny, reading thru these comments I seem to find a lot of Detroiters up in here,...welcome to my world, follow the music to your heart's...and ear's desires. If you build it....they will listen. THIS IS JAZZ MUSIC, W-J-Z-Z, I am the Jazzy 1.
jazze151: Count me as another Detroit area person that MISSES WJZZ-FM Greatly !!!!
In 1978 my music evolution made me a fan of progressive rock which led me to an appreciation of the Dutch band Focus which turned me on to band members Thijs Van Leer and Jan Akkerman's private albums including this.
I was just about to say the same thing. WJZZ played so much dope stuff it was like a crate diggers dream come true! And just like a crate digger, they never said who the damn artist was half the time. It was pure luck that i happened to have some internet radio stationon & i find this joint, sad but true.
Thanks for posting this...this is one of my all time favorites and I have been looking for this for soooo long.I love listening to this at night...especially while I'm driving.Thank you. :)
Very hard to find this excellent album on the streaming services. I received this album unexpectedly because I was reviewing albums for my college newspaper. A fusion album with soul...
I have this LP stashed in a box some where, a forgotten Gem, thanks for reminding me!
He is one of the top five hundred guitar players of all time .," Rolling stone. A magazine..so many good memories.
105.9 WJZZ, Detroit's jazzy radio.
One of the top three gitarists from the Netherlands together with Adrian Vandenberg and Eddie Van Halen
This Man Ruled the 80’s in Jazz Guitar!!!!!
I love this track!
heard it for a the first time in a bar on the jukebox. couldnt find it until today. tight track.
Wow ... takes me back to Electrifing MOJO at the midnite funk association in Detroit !!!
Oh, thank you! I was starting to think maybe I had the dude's name wrong or something. I-Can't-Find-This-Anywhere! And every time I search Jan Akkerman I get a style so completely different I can't believe it's the same guy. THIS is what I been tryin' to find!
po po po... po po po... po po po...
Fantastic atmosphere!
I love Akkerman :)
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🗣️JESUS LAWD DATZ FUNKY‼️
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this is the absolute 2am in the morning-rainy night-driving with not a care in the world tune.
Mojo used to play this all the time on his show in Detroit. Was it on WGPR? It reminds me so much of summer in Detroit, MI. I miss the D
YES INDEED DOWN E.JEFFERSON ON THE WAY TO BELLE ISLE! DETROIT'S BEST RADIO STATION,BACK IN THE DAY!
I remember the old belle isle entrance going under Jefferson to get into the park...
My fafourite Akkerman track. I belief he had been listening to Johnny Guitar Watson, he has never played that funky before!
Great stuff and a very cool. Undutch sound for that time.
Jan will never get the praise he should cause Focus were never as mainstream as other bands of the time. But he was and still is a outstanding guitar player and he allways will be remebered as such. Jan Akkerman plays top notch stuff all the time.
Yes indeed WJZZ Detroit memories here I Texas. Late night driving......
What a unique sound....Nice
This is great album. One of my favorites. Jan A plays a mean electric guitar.
This record is an example of the colorless boundries that music is suppose to have
Still totally awesome 😎
too bad this classic tune dont get more hits what a classic gem
Miss JZZ. Best jazz station ever!
I still have the album, Im going to get it out today and play it all week.
Puff Puff Pass !!!
Ooui that's funky ...
@BlahZayy1190 you´ll understand when you´re 20.......the music will stay in your head forever and will always remind you of a special moment. i´m only 44 but i understand the older people....but you are right, just listen, incredible good music. gr. from the Netherlands
love this song so much!
Flintstone here and we Jammed from Flint to Detroit..
Sam's Jam's... In Friendly Ferndale..
He was the very best guitarist in the Milky Way in the 80’s!!!!!
great, Great, GREAT album!
i miss the electrifying mojo. he's part of the reason i have such diversity in music.
This album influenced my live !
Thanks for this great tune.
Oh MAn this is my thing---Ya must be cool--you posted this HOT video---Thanks!!!!! Steph
You are sooo right about those Jeff Beck albums!
I see the see,sundown, wet roads, driving with my loveone, to some hotel were we spend the night.. great song
WJZZ needs to be back on the radio NOW!!!!
no doubt. he played the at midnight every night. He got me into a lot of different genres of music also.
Excellent, just excellent.
Geweldige band.
Stunning
con esta cancion del caminante ,abrimos la temporada de fiesta ,genial Jan
most underrated guitarist ever
Really? This is the cut that has moved me. I own the CD.
masterpiece from the netherland
thank you for the post of this song
Just found out he was the Guitarist from 70's Prog Rock group Focus. This sounds like a departure for him - great Jazz Fusion sound!!
YES INDEED-DJ-MO-JO DETROIT, MICHIGAN WJZZ & WGPR**************DETROIT*************
for sure!
DEEEEEETROIT BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is my fav ackkerman track
Electrifying Mojo was frequent with this jam every time he played instrumental songs
He played it every night at midnight.
Thanks, for sharing.
LETS TAKE IT BACK A LITTLE MORE"DETROIT'S "WCHD" WITH ED LOVE,JO RAY AND MANY MORE "DJ'S" IN DETROIT!.
PEACE-OUT
time seems to be catching up with you or your typing is off b/c im sure you mean ..WCHB :)
po po po ur so right...and missing from the later performances
Maybe Akkerman's finest hour, this.
Is there any recording of this jewel in good audio quality on UA-cam?
This makes me want ro ride with the top down, shades on , breeze blowing, with my baby driving just chillin.
If you like Jan's jazz fusion you will probably like Jeff Beck as well. Check out his albums 'Blow By Blow' and 'Wired'. Both mid-late seventies albums like this one.
Adam Kraker definitely agree with you on the jeff beck reference
Yes Home Sweet Home WJZZ back n the Day
Dutch Breaks in the house,,
thanx
this is a mistery und sensebilit is beautifuuuuuul
DETROIT'S DJ-MO JO INTRODUCTION TO HIS NIGHTLY SHOW*******DETROIT'S WGPR-107.5." DETROIT SOUND YOUR HORNS AS U PASS BY THE STUDIO!
please more Akkerman iv available...
I love it
Yeah, man. To HD41117 & incrediblecHiller, it was one of those rare moments in time & space where everything is absolutely perfect, and I remember having the presence of mind to recognize it then...
WJZZ was my main station back in the day
Nice chilled out groove
Love it!
Excellent comment.... to bad not many people share that thought...
My first and my best LP ever!