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The back liner photo gives the impression of a grungy Midwestern garage band, but no, that doesn't describe this sophisticated jazz-rock quartet, which was simultaneously breaking into mass-market acceptance and away from the contemplative ECM stereotype. The arrangements are more structured, the playing often more intense and searching, with a more pronounced rock influence. On the title track, Metheny digs in and displays some authoritative rock-oriented licks and intensity, and the rhythms on "The Search" have a slight, at times asymmetrical Latin feeling. The nearly 13-minute "The Epic" finds the Metheny group developing some real combustion in the improvised sections as Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb grow tighter as a unit. In hindsight, some of the music seems a bit too tightly conceived to allow adequate breathing room, but this is still high-quality jazz-rock for its time.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Lyle Mays, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Kent Nebergall, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Egan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Pat Metheny, Composer, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Pat Metheny Group, MainArtist - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jesse Henderson, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Gottlieb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1979 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Lyle Mays, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Kent Nebergall, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Egan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Pat Metheny, Composer, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Pat Metheny Group, MainArtist - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jesse Henderson, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Gottlieb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1979 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Lyle Mays, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Kent Nebergall, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Egan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Pat Metheny, Composer, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Pat Metheny Group, MainArtist - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jesse Henderson, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Gottlieb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1979 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Lyle Mays, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Kent Nebergall, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Egan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Pat Metheny, Composer, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Pat Metheny Group, MainArtist - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jesse Henderson, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Gottlieb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1979 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Lyle Mays, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Kent Nebergall, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Egan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Pat Metheny, Composer, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Pat Metheny Group, MainArtist - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Jesse Henderson, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Gottlieb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1979 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Album review
The back liner photo gives the impression of a grungy Midwestern garage band, but no, that doesn't describe this sophisticated jazz-rock quartet, which was simultaneously breaking into mass-market acceptance and away from the contemplative ECM stereotype. The arrangements are more structured, the playing often more intense and searching, with a more pronounced rock influence. On the title track, Metheny digs in and displays some authoritative rock-oriented licks and intensity, and the rhythms on "The Search" have a slight, at times asymmetrical Latin feeling. The nearly 13-minute "The Epic" finds the Metheny group developing some real combustion in the improvised sections as Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb grow tighter as a unit. In hindsight, some of the music seems a bit too tightly conceived to allow adequate breathing room, but this is still high-quality jazz-rock for its time.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 5 track(s)
- Total length: 00:35:03
- Main artists: Pat Metheny Group
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ECM
- Genre: Jazz
© 1979 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 1979 ECM Records GmbH
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