jazz ensemble

Jacky Terrasson

I Love Paris

Live At The Village Vanguard

Birds Of Springtimes Gone By (Live)

Introducing Brad Mehldau

Countdown

Triology

Night and Day

Speaking of Now

As It Is

Trio 99-00

(Go) Get It

The State Of The Tenor: Live At The Village Vanguard

Beatrice (Live At The Village Vanguard, New York/1985)

The core quartet of Chris, Ben, Antonio, and me played more than 100 concerts over the year that followed the release of our Unity Band record. Over the course of that period, the band became one of those rare combinations of players where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; it gelled in every way, and that just seemed to beg for expansion and further research.” He continues, “Simultaneously, I had been itching to write using more of a lush and orchestrated kind of concept that went beyond the sonic limits of what a straight-ahead quartet might invoke. But I really didn’t want to lose the energy, focus, and intensity of what this band had developed. I wanted to take it further. If the first Unity Band record was a thoughtful, black and white documentary of four musicians in a recording studio playing, this record is more like the Technicolor, IMAX version of what a band like this could be—but with that hardcore thing still sitting right in the middle of it all.

(Go) Get It

Pat Metheny Group

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