Rejoicing

Billy Higgins, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B0000031SK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lonely Woman

2. Tears Inside

3. Humpty Dumpty

4. Blues for Pat

5. Rejoicing

6. Story from a Stranger

7. The Calling

8. Waiting for an Answer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz Guitar Tutorial, April 23, 1999

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Arthur Hampton "Aging gym rat" (Rohnert Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rejoicing (Audio CD)

Metheny is often dismissed as a soft jazz or pop music sellout, but listen to this CD and you'll see that he is none of those things. His range is amazing; there is a lot of variety in his guitar voices and his improvisation is so beautiful it's hard to believe it isn't composed beforehand. This and the 'Group' album are my favorite Metheny things. He plays like a modern day Mozart.

What can you say about Higgins and Haden, except 'Thank you, Lord'.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rejoicing in a new setting for a great artist., April 26, 2000

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"mavennd" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rejoicing (Audio CD)

Pat Metheny in a pure trio setting... inventive, lyrical, original. I received this album as a gift on vinyl from the very person who introduced me to Pat Metheny's music. I was startled by the purity of this recording. "Lonely Woman" begins this album in a spare yet lush presentation. Pat luxuriates in this piece with a rich chordal approach. Beautiful, dark and romantic without any sappiness. I have seldom heard Pat play acoustic in exactly the way he played this piece. Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins are just there, like air, essential supportive. The next few pieces finds Pat in and inventive Jazz guitar trio setting. Pat's unique style, lyrical yet horn-like, with that unusual phrasing brings a fresh take on each piece. Billy Higgins shows why he is so much in demand by musicians of acceptional caliber. He is swinging, driving and original. Play close attention to his cymbal work. Charlie Haden supplies supple lines and a pulse like rhythm thoughout This trio INTERACTS, they listen to one another. "A Story from A Stranger" is again one of those ballads that, for me rates among his best, fans of his well established group would be delighted with this piece, which builds from a soft lilting beginning to a guitar synth-crescendo. "The Calling is harkens back to his love of Ornette Coleman abstract yet driven, with overlapping synth-guitar lines. This one piece is likely to be an acquired taste for many. The album closes out with a whisper much like "Offramp" did. Definitely, at the time of the release a different look at the, then rising guitar legend. This is one that holds up. Here it is 2000 and I still play it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rejoicing in a new setting for a great artist., April 26, 2000

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"mavennd" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rejoicing (Audio CD)

Pat Metheny in a pure trio setting... inventive, lyrical, original. I received this album as a gift on vinyl from the very person who introduced me to Pat Metheny's music. I was startled by the purity of this recording. "Lonely Woman" begins this album in a spare yet lush presentation. Pat luxuriates in this piece with a rich chordal approach. Beautiful, dark and romantic without any sappiness. I have seldom heard Pat play acoustic in exactly the way he played this piece. Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins are just there, like air, essential supportive. The next few pieces finds Pat in and inventive Jazz guitar trio setting. Pat's unique style, lyrical yet horn-like, with that unusual phrasing brings a fresh take on each piece. Billy Higgins shows why he is so much in demand by musicians of acceptional caliber. He is swinging, driving and original. Play close attention to his cymbal work. Charlie Haden supplies supple lines and a pulse like rhythm thoughout This trio INTERACTS, they listen to one another. "A Story from A Stranger" is again one of those ballads that, for me rates among his best, fans of his well established group would be delighted with this piece, which builds from a soft lilting beginning to a guitar synth-crescendo. "The Calling is harkens back to his love of Ornette Coleman abstract yet driven, with overlapping synth-guitar lines. This one piece is likely to be an acquired taste for many. The album closes out with a whisper much like "Offramp" did. Definitely, at the time of the release a different look at the, then rising guitar legend. This is one that holds up. Here it is 2000 and I still play it.