Pat Metheny: What's It All About - review

(Nonesuch)This unaccompanied acoustic guitar album (recorded alone, late at night, and sounding like it) is the first Metheny has made in his four-decade career in which there isn't a single original. All 10 tracks (including Girl from Ipanema, the Beatles' And I Love Her, and The Sound of Silence, alongside lesser-known pieces) have had a special meaning for him, some going back to childhood. The Sound of Silence, played on the Pikasso harp-guitar, is given a reverential treatment fitfully tw...

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