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THE REVIEW
The first time is never forgotten.
It all started in 1986-87.
Ari tells me: I went to Vissius Music to buy a heavy metal tape, Claudio recommended "The final countdown" by Europe. Cool, let's go to your place and listen... But damn it! He fooled you, what kind of metal is this? This is music for preps. The following week: hey! I bought another one, Iron Maiden... ok, lend it to me... and Europe? Ahh... I traded it for three porn magazines... come on, great, then you'll lend them to me too of course... Two weeks later: damn, Ari look what I have here! Slayer, damn, "Reign in Blood", now we're talking, listen to that drum, and those super fast solos, damn they are the best in the world...
A few months later at Vissuis Music: hi, Claudio what do you recommend that's hard, bad, and fast? Well, I have this group here.. I listen to them often (total lie, you only like the Rolling Stones) I take the tape in my hands it says "Bathory". We run to Ari's house, we put it in the tape player, dirty world!... a punch in the gums. Meanwhile, the months pass between studs and patches on the back....
Then one day while we were driving with Ivan's car through the fields to smoke some big joints, Ari says: oh, put this tape on... but, what the hell? I say to him... I get all emotional... a strange drum and what kind of crazy music... who are they?... King Crimson (Lark's...) he tells me...and it's love at first listen and it's the first signs of conversion towards prog, from Kerry King to Robert Fripp, my new and eternal love...
A few years later...
I bought this tape yesterday, it's jazz... oh, yeah? Lend it to me, come on! Uhm.. Pat Metheny...guitar: piripimpri piripimpimpi piripipiripipippi, bass: du du dudududu durududu duru, drums: tacach tacach tratratra purubum purubum. What the hell kind of music is this... I can't get it, it doesn't sink in... let's try again... no, no.. I can't do it... but I won't give up, it has to get in all the way... again and again, but slowly, slowly.. it's getting in... yes, listen to this melody and then the solo and then the melody again, a bit different, and then the drum solo and the double bass, yes! What emotion... it gives me chills..; I made it!
It was tough, but in the end, even it penetrated me completely...
... jazz in the blood, naturally...
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The review narrates a deeply personal music journey from heavy metal to progressive rock and finally to jazz, sparked by Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, and Roy Haynes' album 'Question and Answer.' Initially difficult to embrace, the album eventually creates a profound emotional connection. The listener appreciates the complexity and innovation in the music after repeated listening, highlighting jazz's ability to convey rich emotions.Tracklist Videos
Pat Metheny
American jazz guitarist and composer, leader of the Pat Metheny Group, active since the mid-1970s and known for blending jazz, fusion, world and ambient influences.36 Reviews
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An album for purists.
The product of a trio of such skilled musicians demonstrates how they push themselves to the limits of their abilities and how such a formation can deliver in terms of quality and purity of sound.
