Rejoicing - Pat Metheny

Advantages: A groundbreaking highly original Landmark work!
Disadvantages: None

...work and one of the Pat Metheny Groups very best. When I first heard the album I thought is was terrific and very intriguing. I felt I had to listen to again and again and I am so glad I did. The album is complex, rich, beautiful and melodic. Yet, It is not overly done and complicated. I like straight-ahead and progressive Jazz. The Way Up is a groundbreaking statement in Jazz. This album is in the place between the cracks, where defined genres disappear into a poetic whole and what emerges is something utterly new, guided and inspired by the limitless creativity of the jazz tradition.... Read review

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Advantages: CD can be used as a wall decoration or disco ball alternative
Disadvantages: horrid - a true torture tune 68 minutes i wont forget!

...- i adore saxaphone with a slow and soulful expression which unfortunately this album lacks completely. This is a type of modern music jazz which trys an alternative approach to funk jazz - it's a type i havent come across before and honestly can say did not enjoy one little bit. True to say it's being a bit ambitiousand attemps to delivery jazz on the front line. Unfortunaltely it didnt do anything for me and I won't be making the mistake of buying anything from Pat Metheny in the future. There is a variety of instruments used throughout the 68 min duration - of which make a horrid racket in an attempt to experimentally modernise jaz. This is something that shouldn't really be attempted. Jazz is as it is, a soulful and expressional artform that does not require tinkering or 'hipping' up to ''get down with the kids''. Instruments... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful Voice, Amazing Backups and Musicians, Inovative Music
Disadvantages: Not sure they put the first few songs on the album to the best advantage

...is that although Pat Metheny and the Metheny Group produced this album, I think that Noa took a step in a slightly different direction with this album, and we can feel less of the Metheny influence and more of a cohesive and individual style coming together here. This isn't to say that I ever objected to Metheny's influence previously, but I think that with this collection, Noa, along with her long-time guitarist, keyboard player and co-author, Gil Dor, have really begun to come into their own. Note that word "begun", here. More about that later. Let me take you through this album track by track. 1. "If I Give You Everything" - This is a soft-rock love ballad about the fears of giving in to real love. The lyrics are haunting and the music has just the right mixture of rock and soft sounds that parallel the pull between letting go and holding... Read review

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