Question and Answer

Question and Answer Artist: Pat Metheny with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 720642429327
EAN: 0720642429327
ASIN: B000000ORV


Release Date: 1990-05-31

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Tracks:

  1. Solar
  2. Question And Answer
  3. H and H
  4. Never Too Far Away
  5. Law Years
  6. Change Of Heart
  7. All The Things You Are
  8. Old Folks
  9. Three Flights Up

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Jazz perfection...a classic.......2007-01-21

If you don't like this album, you don't like jazz. I love this album more and more as time goes on, with classic signatures of 3 jazz greats.
Roy Haynes, a pioneer along with Miles and trane, is a treasure on the drums. Metheny, not only the best jazz guitarist ever, but a great composer as well. And Dave Holland, a fantastic bass player and musician.

A very beautiful album, period.

5 out of 5 stars One of the great sessions.......2006-04-13

With such powerhouse personnel, one could hardly miss. Roy Haynes is probably the most underated jazz drummer among the major players. This recording is a bona-fide classic in a somewhat traditional mode. After this recording, people started talking about Methany as a jazz guitarist - which he is - among all the rest that this seminal musician is. The interpretation of "All The Things You Are" may be the best of all time.

5 out of 5 stars Out of print?.......2006-02-16

Just briefly - I can't understand why this album is domestically out of print and only available as an expensive import...

5 out of 5 stars great cd!.......2004-03-18

having been bored with much of the recent music currently available i have been rediscovering alot of older music. i have always enjoyed pat metheny in his group setting and took a chance and bought this cd...and am i happy i did so... i fully agree with all of the other reviews of this cd; i think this rates up there with his finest work. if you enjoy pats music you owe it to yourself to try this one out...you won't be sorry you did!

5 out of 5 stars One of the all time best jazz guitar recordings........2004-02-14

The heart of jazz is improvisation. Here we have a recording that confirms Pat Metheny as one of the best living jazz guitar improvisors.

Haynes and Holland do an exceptional job of backing up Pat. I agree that the sound quality is not the best, but the playing is so stellar that you won't really care or notice.

I don't care too much for Pat's more 'commercial' output of recordings. But in the standard trio setting, playing real jazz, Pat blows away every other jazz guitarist I have ever heard.

This recording is non-stop intense improv. Most of the tracks are around 6-7 minutes in length. Sometimes jazz improvisors can make the mistake of taking too many choruses. But while most of the tracks feature Pat improvising for several choruses, I don't ever get tired of listening to him improvise because he always uses superb taste and technique, and is constantly doing little things that you may not notice the first time around, like little rhythmic or melodic motifs which he builds up and tweaks inside in out.

One warning: this is not smooth jazz! If you are a smooth jazz fan, don't buy this CD because it will probably cause you to have an aneurism, as your brain is not designed to handle such a high level of jazz perfection! :)

And on the other hand, if you hate smooth jazz, like I do: buy this CD, you won't be disapointed.

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