Mingo Lewis-Flight Never Ending (1976)

Mingo Lewis rose to fame when he joined Santana's band, and later Return to Forever, the band of Chick Corea and Al Di Meola, as well as collaborating with Todd Rundgren. In 1976, Lewis released his only solo album, "Flight Never Ending", on which the talented drummer collaborated with various session musicians from Columbia Records, including Eric McCann, David Logeman, Michael Kapitan, Kincaed Miller, Louis Bramy, and Randy Sellgren. "Flight Never Ending" is considered by many to be one of the most underrated jazz-rock albums of the 1970s. It's an energetic and powerful work featuring Lewis's superb drumming and surprising instrumentation from a group of very talented but largely unknown musicians. Latin-infused tracks like the exotic "Visions of Another Time", funky movements like "Trapezoid", sound experiments like "Magnary Monsters", full jazz rock tracks like "Flight Never Ending", or memorable musical fusion dynamics like "Heartsong", constitute a dazzling and forgotten work of the best jazz rock of the seventies.