Wolfgang Muthspiel: Drum Free – review

(Material)After a few years in Pat Metheny's wake in the 1980s, Austria's Wolfgang Muthspiel became an excellent jazz guitarist with his own take on the intersections between postbop, world music and swing. His trio includes Brad Mehldau bassist Larry Grenadier and Swiss saxophonist Andy Scherrer. They exhibit something of a lounge-jazz purr at first, but then their real story emerges, featuring the empathetic and anticipatory partnership of Muthspiel and Grenadier, an encounter comparable in pu...

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