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Review by JW April 1, 2007 (3 of 4 found this review helpful)
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With the very the first notes the cool sophisticated rhythms wash over you in glorious Concord sound and you just know this is going to be a great SA-CD. I would regard this music as mainstream and accessable modern jazz. It's melodic and complex at the same time. It sounds more modern than the standards played on Ray Brown's 'Soular Energy' or on another disc I reviewed earlier, Oscar Peterson's Tall Band recorded in the same year (1998).
For those of you not familiar with these players, Gary Burton plays vibraphone, Chick Corea piano, Pat Metheny guitar, Dave Holland bass and Roy Haynes drums. They are all legends that played with Miles, Lester Young or Stan Getz to name but a few. They have solo careers, plus many are composers as well and virtuoso's on their respective instruments often crossing musical bounderies.
Soundwise I would say this is reference quality.
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Review by Marc P September 22, 2003 (2 of 3 found this review helpful)
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Ever since I was first introduced to the music of Pat Metheny I have been a huge fan. But with the lack of decent information on anything but top 40 artists in the Netherlands I wasn’t to surprised to find yet another title I had never heard of.
Ordering this title I didn’t know what to expect, knowing only the music of Pat Metheny and none of the others one this album (and knowing some of the crap Pat has put out) listening to it for the first time was a bit of surprise.
There are a few Metheny tracks on here I already own in different versions. Which is always interesting to listen to. New interpretations of existing music can give a track a whole new buzz. And indeed it has been a buzz listening to those tracks, not to say the rest of the disc isn’t impressive. But those were a little harder to get into.
Sound quality wise there is a lot of good things to say about this album. It’s clearly well recorded. But the presentation of especially the guitar work is not what I had hoped for. Unlike the Metheny solo and Metheny group stuff the guitar doesn’t take centre stage on this one. And for me that’s bad news. Because I like the guitar sound to jump out at me when listening to one of my favorite guitar players.
Others will probably won’t see this as a problem and may even prefer this approach.
All in all a disc I can recommend but not as much as I hoped when ordering.
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Review by Stanbury June 16, 2008 (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
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| I agree with the two previous reviewers that this is great jazz. It is Burton's album, so we shouldn't be expecting Metheny's guitar to be front/center. The album is a studio recording, with the various performers isolated in sound-proof booths, communicating via headphones. Perhaps this method of recording explains the deficiencies in the mch version. The stereo version is excellent, but the surround version is not as well recorded, with Burton's vibes swimmy and not well localized.
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