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Review title: The emperor's new music
Product review: The most interesting of the earlier reviews of these cds encouraged future listeners to NOT come to the music with a pre-conceived notion of what 'Metheny' music should be like. I assume then that the optimal listening situation would be one in which the listener doesn't know who is playing. Does this mean that if a group of junior high beginners made 3 cds of random playing that occasionally bordered on melody, they would recieve the same accolades? I doubt it. I contend that it is ONLY because Metheny and some other big names are on these recordings that anyone raves about them at all. This is yet another out-working of the post-modern version of the Empereror's new clothes. If you can't understand the music, you must be an uninitiated philistine, and not one of elite few who can properly interpret it.
