The Rowohlt Jazz Encyclopedia characterizes keyboard player Dieter Reith as a Master of rhythmic tension. Born in Mainz, Germany in 1937, this multi-talented musician created just such tension by forming a band with four American expatriates for his 1975 hard hitting, groove-laden, spaced out, fusion funk MPS album Knock Out. Bass guitarist Dave King had Krautrock experience through his work with German rock group Embryo. Percussionist Sabu Martinez had already worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington. Reith demonstrates his know-how on piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer, and as composer-arranger. His themes, played in unison with Jamaican saxophonist Wilton Gaynair, sound full, big-band-like, and then flow into slickly constructed jazz-rock thunderstorms. Dieter Reith played with the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra and, along with Peter Herbolzheimer and Hollander Jerry van Rooyen, composed the music for the opening of the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.