Product Details
- Artist: Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0075597999402
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- Label: Nonesuch
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- Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Nonesuch
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- Release Date: 2007-03-13
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- Studio: Nonesuch
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- Title: Metheny Mehldau Quartet
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- UPC: 075597999402
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Product Description: New Age-leaning guitarist Pat Metheny and melancholic pianist Brad Mehldau have such distinctive, even rarified, sensibilities (each an acquired taste for some listeners), that their teaming may have looked like a one-time commercial ploy in the beginning. But having found rewarding common ground and a receptive audience through their shared love of pop, Brazilian music and Americana, they likely will work together again. Recorded at the same time as their first album, a duo effort, Quartet takes a satisfying step forward in featuring the Mehldau trio's first-rate bass and drum team, Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard, on most of the tracks. Ranging from rhapsodic reflections to full-tilt fusion fare to loping, Wes Montgomery-inspired tunes--and let's not overlook that Asian-tinged song featuring Metheny on 42-string guitar--the music is sometimes a bit soft at the core. But when the stars are aligned, as on the effortlessly flowing, co-written opener, "A Night Away," and Metheny's charming "En La Tierra Que No Olvida," their partnership glows. It will be interesting to hear where they go from here. --Lloyd Sachs
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