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Title: essential
Review: this trio album is not just one of the best Metheny albums or one of the best trio jazz guitar albums ever recorded. It is up there with one of the greatest jazz statements in all of the recorded repertoire. The recording is live, the tones are gorgeous, the playing is the absolute pinnacle of virtuosity on all the instruments, the tunes are lively when they need to be and sombre when they need to be but never over or underplayed! I bought this album (on cassette tape) when it was first released, I was a budding jazz guitarist in my first or second year of a Jazz Performance degree and almost 20 years later it is still an inspired benchmark of jazz musicianship and musicality by which all other jazz performances should be measured.Essential listening for all!
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