Mick Goodrick/Wolfgang Muthspiel: Live at the Jazz Standard | CD review

(Material)This might be easy to sideline as just a guitar buff's album, but it's subtly musical enough to reach a much wider listenership. Austrian guitarist Muthspiel is one of the big innovators on the instrument, joining improvisational ingenuity, world-music openness, jazz awareness and technical audacity. The veteran American Goodrick was a key figure in the early jazz-rock breakthroughs of vibraphonist Gary Burton's group, and that country-swinging Burton feel comes through here and there ...

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