Customer Reviews
Excellent stuff - By: E. Smith, 15 Sep 2008 
This is great - a real grower & an album to enjoy for years to come. It hasn't aged, there's plenty of spacein the recording allowing the trio to work their magic around some great compositions. Recommended!
Inexpressibly brilliant! - By: Mr. E. Southgate, 21 Feb 2004 
This record is one of the best dicoveries I ever made. I don't think any record since Davis' 'Kind Of Blue', Zappa's 'Lather' or Stravinsky's 'Soldier's Tale' has had such an effect on me! It's just superb, a must for any guitarist or anyone with any taste for that matter. I just can't wait to get hold of more of Pat's work, & there is plenty of it. Buy it, buy it NOW!
Awesome - By: Film Fan, 19 Sep 2003 One of the finest pieces of jazz ever - Pat Metheny on guitar & Jaco Pastorius on bass. Bob Moses on drums does a fine job of keeping up with these two string demigods though he is never going to bein the same league. If you like jazz & you don't like this, get your ears serviced.
Young Metheny in tantalising trio album - By: , 24 May 2001 This is one of my favourite records. It is Pat Methenyin his finest & freshest form; recordedin 1976 before he was really famous, it is an uncomplicated trio of guitar, electric bass & drums. The two others making up the trio were themselves to go on to great things: drummer Bob Moses was alreadyin the Gary Burton Quintet & bound for jazz stardom, & Metheny's guitar is complimented (andin parts even outplayed) by the late, great Jaco Pastorius.
Uncomplicated, though is far from straightforward, &in this album it is three soloists, rather than a close-knit ensemble feel that pervades. Despite being only 45 minsin length, the eight tracks explore the widest range of versatility from all three. Metheny's now legendary smooth sound can still swing like a train, & the post-bop style rushes of "Missouri Uncompromised" & "Unquity Road" are as hard & straight-ahead East Coast as these three giants will get. They even have time & space for Ornette Coleman's "Round Trip/Broadway Blues" (more post-bop pyrotechnics), although it is Pastorius who impresses most, I must say.
The ballads are amazingly good. "Midwestern Night's Dream" is the longest track of the album, & it fades out with you sitting there wishing it didn't. "Unity Village" likewise, although that piece Metheny alone, overdubbed. There is some overdubbingin the album, but it is unobtrusive & very effective. Particularly impressive is Pastorius's ability to overlay the same fretless bass line on top of a previous take. The sound colour achieved is quite lovely.
I must also praise the sleeve notes. Written by Gary Burton, they are a joy to read. Talking of his doubts about Metheny on their first meeting, he writes: "Well, you just can't help liking this kid...an incredible blend of Missouri, hip, chops & all those teeth!". Enjoy.
