 Then we would go and listen to Kenny Burrell play around the corner or we would go up to Mintons and listen to Wes Montgomery and sit in with him ...

Beck played in a variety of jazz styles, including jazz fusion, post bop, mainstream jazz, and soul jazz, but also respected rock stylists and cross-over players (he was good friends with Larry Coryell) and briefly flirted with rock music styles himself in the late 1960s and early 1970s.In 1970 Polydor released "Rock Encounter".In 1975 he released an eponymous album (upon which he simply referred to himself as "Beck") while recording the Esther Phillips album, "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes", both for Kudu.