White guitarist Steve Khan refined his smooth, tuneful and delicate fusion music over two albums, Tightrope (april 1977) and The Blue Man (february 1978), that featured trumpeter Randy Brecker, tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, alto saxophonist David Sanborn, pianist Don Grolnick, bassist Bob James and drummer Steve Gadd. A looser, more improvised style emerged with Eyewitness (november 1981).