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Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny: Beyond the Missouri Sky
by Dave Hughes
Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, both Missouri natives and best friends, join forces for a mostly acoustic duet album. All of the tunes were recorded as duets for acoustic bass and guitar, and on roughly half of the tunes, Metheny overdubbed some “orchestral" backgrounds on synclavier or an additional acoustic guitar part. But these additions simply ...
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dear Ella
by AAJ Staff
Jazz has many heroes and many legends. The largest of those legends need only one name for identification: Miles, Trane, Sonny, Brownie, Monk, Duke, Pres, and Dizzy to name just a few. Among singers, perhaps only one person's legend is large enough to require only one name: Ella. To attempt a tribute to Ms. Fitzgerald would ...
Pat Metheny / Charlie Haden: Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
by Robert Middleton
On my first listen or two this album seemed at best to be pleasant background music. And it can certainly can be that. It's languid, relaxed melodies don't demand that you take special notice. Perfect music for a quite evening at home or a slow Sunday afternoon. But if that's all you got it would be ...
Bill Evans: Conversations With Myself
by AAJ Staff
Technology and art have always had a tumultuous relationship at best. Advancements in technology have often been greeted by the artistic community by a split response: Some embrace the new technology and experiment with it, reaching out for new forms of expression that were impossible before; others shun the advances, dismissing them and those that use ...
Makoto Ozone Trio: The Trio
by Douglas Payne
Back when Japanese pianist Makoto Ozone was attending Berklee, he was Gary Burton's prodigy and a frighteningly promising improvisor. Ozone has an unusual ability to suggest odd traits of past masters – the muscularity of Ahmad Jamal, the happy romanticism of Bill Evans, the simplicity of the intricate Joanne Brackeen and, at times, the classic panache ...
