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Context
Title track of Pat Metheny's first album, recorded in December 1975 at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg and released by ECM in March 1976, with Jaco Pastorius on bass and Bob Moses on drums. About 900 copies sold on release; recognition came ten to fifteen years later, and the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry in 2020.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to ECM and European jazz. Among the origins and influences of ECM and European jazz: Free jazz, Modal, French jazz, Polish jazz, Free improvisation and European free.