Jim Hall & Pat Metheny - Jim Hall & Pat Metheny

Dúo de guitarras que reúne a intérpretes de dos generaciones consecutivas de extraordinaria influencia sobre sus pares.
Jim Hall, integrante del quinteto del baterista Chico Hamilton a mitad de los años cincuenta, y protagonista de notables sesiones en dueto junto al pianista Bill Evans (Undercurrent e Intermodulation) y formando parte del cuarteto sin piano del saxofonista Sonny Rollins (The Bridge), tuvo una singular significación sobre las grandes referencias de su instrumento en la actualidad surgidas desde fines de los setentas, incluido el propio Pat Metheny por supuesto; a su vez de gran ascendiente sobre los que lo sucedieron.
El álbum que los convocó contiene seis temas grabados en vivo en the Craftsmen's Guild en Pittsburgh y otros registrados en estudio; de los cuáles algunos pertenecen a uno u otro, dos al contrabajista Steve Swallow (Falling Grace) y al guitarrista Attila Zoller (The Birds and the Bees), dos son standards (All the Things You Are y Summertime), y el resto una serie de breves improvisaciones.****

1.Lookin' Up (Jim Hall) 4:34
2.All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern) 6:58
3.The Birds and the Bees (Attila Zoller) 5:04
Dedicated to our good friend, Attila Zoller
4.Improvisation No. 1 (Jim Hall, Pat Metheny) 1:05
5.Falling Grace (Steve Swallow) 4:39
6.Ballad Z (Pat Metheny) 4:33
7.Summertime (Du Bose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 5:35
8.Farmer's Trust (Pat Metheny) 5:29
9.Cold Spring (Jim Hall) 6:29
10.Improvisation No. 2 (Jim Hall, Pat Metheny) 1:11
11.Into the Dream (Pat Metheny) 3:05
12.Don't Forget (Pat Metheny) 4:46
(Theme from the film Passagio per il paradiso)
13.Improvisation No. 3 (Jim Hall, Pat Metheny) 3:22
14.Waiting to Dance (Jim Hall) 4:38
15.Improvisation No. 4 (Jim Hall, Pat Metheny) 2:37
16.Improvisation No. 5 (Jim Hall, Pat Metheny) 2:08
17.All Across the City (Jim Hall) 7:34

Jim Hall - electric guitar
Pat Metheny - electric guitar, acoustic guitars, fretless classical guitar, 42 string guitar

Recorded at Right Track Studios, New York, July 30-31, 1998, and Manchester Craftmen's Guild, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, August 1-2, 1998

Tracks 1,4,5,6,10,11,12,13,14,15 and 16 are studio recordings.
Tracks 2,3,7,8,9, and 17 are live recordings.
Jim is featured to the left channel, Pat to the right.

Cold Spring and All Across the City were arranged by Jim; The Birds and the Bees, Summertime and Don't Forget were arranged by Pat; Ballad Z was arranged by Gil Goldstein, and all others arranged by Jim and Pat.

Telarc 834422 0 [1999]