During an era when the word "fusion" was applied to any mixture of jazz with pop or funk,
Chick Corea
's Elektric Band reinforced the word's original meaning: a combination of jazz improvisations with the power, rhythms and sound of rock.
Eye of the Beholder
, which found guitarist
Frank Gambale
, saxophonist
Eric Marienthal
and bassist
John Patitucci
displaying increasingly original solo voices, is one of this group's finest recordings and ranks with the best fusion of the latter half of the 1980s. ~ Scott Yanow