Pat Metheny's 1989 album Question and Answer, recently remastered and reissued by Nonesuch, is described by All About Jazz as one of "a glittering, altogether too infrequent series" of acoustic trio albums from Metheny. The review cites drummer Roy Haynes ("just heavenly") and the "shining" performance of bassist Dave Holland for creating "another magnificent Metheny trio line-up." The album is a "whirlwind of an affair, invigorating and exquisite; a masterpiece of the first order." Along with that reissue comes the wider release of Upjonie, the 2002 collaboration between Metheny and Polish singer/pianist Anna Maria Jopek, in which, The Guardian states, "Metheny's guitar often accompanies Jopek's floating, fragile intensity like another voice."
Pat Metheny's 1989 album Question and Answer, recently remastered and reissued by Nonesuch Records, is described by All About Jazz writer Chris May as one of "a glittering, altogether too infrequent series" of acoustic trio albums from Metheny, which also includes Metheny's most recent new recording for Nonesuch, Day Trip, with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez. Any effort to rank the collaborations would be futile, says May, due to "the uniformly incandescent quality of the music involved."
Among the high points of Question and Answer, May states, is the work of dummer Roy Haynes, which he calls "supremely powerful magic—sensitive, sophisticated and responsive but also fat, mighty and propulsive. The sound of Haynes' kit is burnished to perfection on the remaster," concluding: "Haynes is just heavenly."
The review also points to the "shining" performance of Dave Holland on bass for helping to create "another magnificent Metheny trio line-up." The album as a whole, says May, is a "whirlwind of an affair, invigorating and exquisite; a masterpiece of the first order."
Read the full review at allaboutjazz.com.
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Along with the reissue of Question and Answer, Nonesuch has released Upjonie, a collaboration between Metheny and Polish singer/pianist Anna Maria Jopek, released in Poland in 2002 and first receiving a wider release now.
The Guardian's John Fordham writes: "Metheny's guitar often accompanies Jopek's floating, fragile intensity like another voice." Fordham cites tracks on the album that "show what a distinctively haunting pop-ballad artist Jopek is; her delicate musicality and some understatedly sympathetic work by a Polish band not only reflects Metheny's own affecting lyricism and affinity with vocal music, but conjures something independently strong out of it."
Read the full review at guardian.co.uk.
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