Mingo Lewis (USA) for Fusion

American drummer and percussionist.

His album Flight Never Ending from 1976 is 100% fusion with big number of elements and rich arrangements, something like more latin Mahavishnu (I'm thinking about rocking jazz-rock dynamism) with more space synths.

There' are also assosiations with Al Di Meola's works in overall sound.

Mingo Lewis was also in bands: Return to Forever (short time, only in 1973), he worked with Santana/Carlos Santana (Caravanserai, Love Devotion Surrender and more) and was long-time percussionist on Al di Meola's albums (Land Of The Midnight Sun, Elegant Gypsy, Casino and more).

During his cooperation with Al di Meola he wasn't only a percussionist, but he was also author/composer of tracks: "The Wizard", "Flight over Rio", "Chasin' the voodoo" (according to discogs) and hist contribution is generally audible.

In short, a lot of happen on every second of this album.

("Visions of another time" has even more layers of space synths, "Trapezoid" tends to Herbie Hancock style and last title-track has most deep, even epic space feel)

Overally great, very energetic album!

He was mentioned here:

Flight Never Ending 1976

full album: (arg! just a moment ago entire album was available...)

A1. Aba Cua (1:36)

A2. Frankincense (7:02)

A3. Heartsong (8:20)

A4. The Wizard (7:35)

B1. Visions Of Another Time (6:30)

B2. Trapezoid (4:46)

B3. 'Maginary Monsters (1:02)

B4. Flight Never Ending (8:30)

Louis Bramy  Bells, Percussion, Producer, Vocals

Don Cody  Engineer

Mike Fusaro  Engineer

Mike Kapitan  Composer, Keyboards

Michael Kapitau  Arranger, Composer, Drums, Moog Synthesizer, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals

Mingo Lewis  Arranger, Bells, Clavinet, Composer, Congas, Gong, Gwido, Handclapping, Kalimba, Percussion, Producer, Stick, Synthesizer, Vibraslap, Vocals

David Logerman  Drums

Eric McCann  Bass

Kincaid Miller  Clavinet, Keyboards, Synthesizer

Mingo  Primary Artist

Randy Sellgren  Guitar, Guitar (Electric)

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