Bright Size Life (1976)
Released 1 Jan 1976

Twenty-one-year-old Pat Metheny introduced a completely new guitar vocabulary steeped in Midwest Americana and open-string resonance. In close interplay with Jaco Pastorius's singing fretless bass and Bob Moses's crisp cymbals, Metheny trades bebop cliches for sweeping, pastoral melodies that feel…

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