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• The melodies on “Bright Size Life”, Pat Metheny’s first studio album as frontman, tell a story that begins on the outskirts of Jim Hall, traverses the vast plains of the American Midwest and ends in the middle of Ornette Coleman. From the moment fingers strike strings, we are transported into the lush warmth that was to characterize an ECM era.

  Flanked by the late Jaco Pastorius on bass and a cymbal-loving Bob Moses on drums, Metheny bears the brunt of the record’s melodic thrust. Metheny and his sidemen make it sound like it would be harder not to create such a flawless synergy as they overflow with beautiful intricacy, organic inversions and unwavering execution.

  With the obvious exception of his solo efforts, this is Metheny at his purest. And while his larger group projects t