...NP: Ornette Coleman and Pat Metheny - Song X (Allmusic): Don't believe everything you read. It's SERIOUSLY underrated and actually a damn good album; I'd go so far as to say it's a unheralded classic of modern jazz. I recently picked up a near-pristine LP copy on TradeMe for a criminally-low price -- I still pee myself a little when I consider what a bargain I got. And as for Metheny -- the "big-haired king of airbrushed jazz-lite" (Peter Marsh, bbc.co.uk) -- why, it's the only thing of his I'll have in the house.
Song X was re-ished a couple of years ago with a pile of other unreleased material from the same sessions -- and to good reviews. (Actually it appears to have undergone the full revisionist treatment: Nils Jacobson, John Kelman, John Fordham, Robert Christgau, E. "Doc" Smith.)
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"And as for Metheny -- the "big-haired king of airbrushed jazz-lite" (Peter Marsh, bbc.co.uk) -- why, it's the only thing of his I'll have in the house."
Would you make an exception for Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint"? I know it's been sampled to death, but still...
I've already got the first one! Ah, such memories. It's funny how one's collection of 7" vinyl can be so damned random. As well as marking you as an OAP simply for owning any.
Tom: ok you got me -- I do have that one, so that makes TWO Pat Metheny recordings in the house. But no more.
Alan: I hear ya. I would love a jukebox to load up and put on random play.
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