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68 minutes of JAZZ hell

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

COST: £3.00 Place of purchase: HMV bargain bin Released 2005 Record label: Nonesuch Cover: Although the picture above shows splashed red paint across a silver pole, my CD has a completely red pole, with people in the street walking by, just as in picture here. Tracks: 1. OpeningMusic 2. Part OneMusic 3. Part TwoMusic 4. Part ThreeMusic Okay, as you can see from above there are only 4 tracks on the album, but they link from one to another ...
...In all there's 68 minutes, thats one hour and eight minutes of Jazz torture. Not that i hate jazz and that is why I say the CD was awful to listen to, not at all, infact some jazz is truely wonderful such as Still Life Talking. This album isn't what anyone could consider easy-listening jazz, or dinner jazz, and maybe thats the problem - i adore saxaphone with a slow and soulful expression which unfortunately this album lacks completely. This is ...

mints4merlin 02.03.2006 · Read full review
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Modern Jazz at its very Best!

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

...Beat Jazz Magazine reviewed The Way Up by describing it as the following: " A triumph...ascendant and inspirational...An ambitious work of great depth, beauty and complexity...easily the best album Metheny has made in many years and could turn out to be one of his best ever. **** 4 Stars" Down Beat Other Magazine reviews of The Way Up are as the follows: "A continuous 68-minute piece...Metheny builds the music as a series of interconnected themes ...
...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. ...

redranger42 28.03.2008 · Read full review
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