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Pat Metheny Group · 1982 · Dédicace mélodique, six minutes quarante-sept

Context

Track from Offramp (ECM), recorded in October 1981 in New York (6 min 47 s). Third studio album by the Pat Metheny Group, and the first with the Roland GR-300 guitar synthesizer; it won a Grammy.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, ECM and European jazz. Among the origins and influences of Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk: Modal, Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop, Free jazz, Brazilian instrumental music, Indo-jazz, Modern big bands, Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais).

By the same artist

• Are You Going with Me? (1982)
• Au Lait (1982)
• Offramp (1982)
• Eighteen (1982)
• Phase Dance (1978)
• Last Train Home (1987)

Sources

• EN: Offramp (album)

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