00:00 Bass and drums begin with melodic and rhythmic patterns, soft piano.
00:16 Guitar enters; notice the bass clarinet.
00:35 Trumpet enters in the low register and slowly moves up in pitch.
01:45 Trumpet plays over a large range (high to low register); the bass finally creates the pattern that remains for the entire selection and establishes the tonal center.
02:00 Textural sound effects by the trumpet.
02:15 Intensification of rock patterns.
02:30 Melodic pattern built on wide intervals.
02:58 Long notes with changes in tone quality.
03:28 Use of bebop melodic ideas.
04:07 Trumpet stops.
04:10 Piano and guitar dialogue creates a texture from various electronic effects (distortion).
05:30 Guitar assumes a solo role, all others maintain vamping patterns.
05:45 Piano becomes more soloistic, plays large intervals, and uses distortion.
06:10 Soprano sax solo (Wayne Shorter); bass clarinet (Bennie Maupin) accompanies softly.
07:15 Thick collective improvisation
08:00 Piano solos much more dominantly, uses distortion and angular melodic lines; the solo is more rhythmic than melodic.
09:05 Intensity increases throughout the band, piano creates a frantic texture, drummer kicks explosively.
10:00 Distortion increases.
10:20 Texture begins to thin.
10:40 Trumpet reenters.
10:52 Trumpet uses extensions almost exclusively, pitches seem to slide into each other.
11:35 Beginning of a musical climax.
11:55 Peak of climax, high range of the trumpet.
12:28 Low range of the trumpet.
12:52 Trumpet drops melodic role and becomes a rhythmic element in the texture.
13:22 Trumpet reassumes the melodic role.
13:32 Trumpet stops.
13:35 Music fades out.
13:50 End.