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| Artists: Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 18913
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 104188
UPC: 075597999402
EAN: 0075597999402
ASIN: B000MRNTKO
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
thoughtful, melodic, inventive return for Mehldau, well tuned quartet with Methany September 28, 2007
I am please to announce that with Pat Methany as a stabilizing influence, Brad Mehldau has triumphantly returned to make the most listenable enjoyable album he has made in years. The quartet format seems to suit both artists well!
When Brad Mehldau first appreared I thought he was the best thing since Bill Evans. In his Art of the Trio series he penned and played a lot of Jazz classics somewhat on the melancholy side, but I like that. Recently tho he's made a lot of albums with what I can only call a maniacal, driven quality where he often repeat phrases over and over hoping something new will drop out of them, with far too much force and dissonance.
Methany, on the other hand, seem to have invented the synth guitar - certainly has for 25 years or more found more textures than anyone else. The 42 string guitar is a revelation in sound. He has made the guitar sound like any other instrument you can name. His sound is more laid back.
The tunes herein rely on Methany's melodic sense with Mehldau working hand in glove with Methanys direction. The only song I didn't like, the Kafka/Kierkegaard-esq "Fear and Trembling" , turned out to be a Mehldau original... But the rest is thoughtful, melodic, inventive and shows both, if not all musicians listening carefully together toward an organic whole. Most of the tunes come from Methany or other musicians which frees up the quartet to improvize!
 Wonderful July 12, 2007
This album is second to Michael Brecker's Pilgrimage. The tunes are great, the players are great - great album. Their first album together teased us with two tunes that featured the quartet - the quartet album won't let any expectations down. Buy it.
Splendid July 5, 2007
This is really a revelation of sorts, beautifully produced new-age jazz by Pat Metheny. I had liked some of his earlier efforts and lost patience after a while but he has managed to renew his approach quite a bit. The music is sonically perfect and the whole disc is exceptional not just one or two tracks, Beautiful. I may have to buy the first one also.
music to my ears June 6, 2007
a musical delicacy of cold cut jazz. well balanced between slow and mellow songs and more upbeat numbers that simply jazzles your mind.
one down side, some of the numbers are to short, leave you wanting for more, well the whole cd creates this entire empty space that craves more of that jazzy jazz; some of the songs has the beautiful, slow evolution from downbeat tempo but every melodious moving toward some really funky stuff (not as in funk but funky as in phat)but ending all too soon.
Beautiful, Engaging, but not Explosive May 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mehldau and Metheney have collaborated such that their work on this cd is continuous with their previous but separate efforts while still being a creative and enjoyable work. Most of the tracks have, as their foundation, Mehldau's incredible sense of balance between the complex and the simple. Mehldau's sense of when and how to fill--and not fill--in the spaces continues to be an incredible strength of his approach. Metheney's contribution is to ride this gentle wave with his usual mix of engaging accessibility. Metheny's use of a synthesizer effect allows him to explore two of the tunes more freely which provides the most satisfying tracks on the album (5 & 9). What the album lacks in explosiveness (check out Mehldau's version of "Solar" on the album Art of the Trio Vol IV) it makes up in subtle inventiveness.
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