Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999)

About this title: These two guitarists -- one an elder statesman, the other still a relatively young man in the midst of a stellar career -- are such a natural fit that it's amazing no one's thought of getting them together for a duo album before. Both play with a gentle touch and sweet tone, and both are capable of challenging experimentation, though each have spent most of their time in one mainstream tradition or another (Jim Hall in straight-ahead jazz, Pat Metheny in jazz-rock fusion). On this disc they focus on original compositions (Metheny's "Farmer's Trust" and "Into the Dream," Hall's "Cold Spring" ... read more

Tracks:

1. Lookin' Up [Studio Recording] [Hall]
2. All the Things You Are [Live] [Hammerstein/Kern]
3. The Birds and the Bees [Live] [Zoller]
4. Improvisation, No. 2 [Studio Recording] [Hall/Metheny]
5. Falling Grace [Studio Recording] [Swallow]
6. Ballad Z [Studio Recording] [Metheny]
7. Summertime [Live] [Heyward/Gershwin/Ge]
8. Farmer's Trust [Live] [Mays/Metheny]
9. Cold Spring [Live] [Hall]
10. Improvisation, No. 2 [Studio Recording] [Hall/Metheny]
11. Into the Dream [Studio Recording] [Metheny]
12. Don't Forget [From Passaggio Per Il Paradiso][Version] [Metheny]
13. Improvisation, No. 3 [Studio Recording] [Hall/Metheny]
14. Waiting to Dance [Studio Recording] [Hall]
15. Improvisation, No. 4 [Studio Recording] [Hall/Metheny]
16. Improvisation, No. 5 [Studio Recording] [Hall/Metheny]
17. All Across the City [Live] [Hall]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.