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Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau: Quartet

Read "Quartet" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

The second installment of the Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau collaboration illustrates how the most accomplished and established musicians endure growing pains as they learn to work together. Even a partnership as complementary as this one benefits from a guiding hand or, alternately, suffers for lack of one. Make no mistake, the presence of Larry Grenadier's bass and ...

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Metheny Mehldau: Quartet

Read "Quartet" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Distinguished musicians playing and recording together tells you that the sky will be the limit for its potential. The collaboration between guitarist Pat Metheny and piano prodigy Brad Mehldau was so fruitful that the initial session that gave us the brilliant Mehldau/Metheny duo album, also produced Quartet, with Mehldau's standard Trio joining forces. ...

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Bill Frisell: Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian

Read "Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian" reviewed by John Barron

by John Barron

The old saying, you can't judge a book by its cover, certainly applies to the latest release by eclectic guitarist Bill Frisell on the Nonesuch label. The untitled recording--actually co-led by Frisell, pioneering bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Paul Motian--delivers an empathetic commentary on an expansive American musical landscape. What is pleasantly surprising--or perhaps reassuring--is that ...

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Metheny Mehldau: Quartet

Read "Quartet" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

In many ways Quartet--the second disc culled from the December, 2005 collaboration between iconic guitarist Pat Metheny and the younger but increasingly influential pianist Brad Mehldau--is the record that Pat Metheny Group's final Geffen album, 1996's Quartet, should have been. While the Metheny Group record had its charms, it was the closest thing to a contractual ...

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Caetano Veloso: Ce

Read "Ce" reviewed by Matt Cibula

by Matt Cibula

Cê is not a jazz album, but it's not really a pop or samba or world music record, and despite its vocals/guitar/bass/drums format, it's not a rock album either. So why am I reviewing it here? Well, first because it's by Caetano Veloso, the reigning genius of Brazilian popular music, and therefore worthy of study. On ...

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Metheny Mehldau: Quartet

Read "Quartet" reviewed by Stephen Wood

by Stephen Wood

One sure sign of musicianship is adaptability. And it is precisely because Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau possess this very quality that Quartet is so captivating. I find it hard to imagine how a pair of musicians could deliver such a subtly different mood in their second release than in their first. But the guitarist and ...

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Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall

Read "Beyond the Wall" reviewed by John Barron

by John Barron

Native Detroiter Kenny Garrett has been on the cutting edge of jazz for some time now. The former Miles Davis sideman has built a reputation as an uncompromising trailblazer while managing to write melodic and highly accessible music. Of his many sessions, Beyond the Wall could very well be his best. Inspired by his long-time fascination ...

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Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau: Metheny Mehldau

Read "Metheny Mehldau" reviewed by Stephen Wood

by Stephen Wood

For anyone who forgot how the intimacy of a guitar and piano duo could emblazon musical ideas, just look to Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau's first collaboration, Metheny Mehldau. In many ways this record continues the conversation between guitar and piano begun by Jim Hall and Bill Evans nearly fifty years before. But that ...


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