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Pat Metheny follows Joshua Redman with five choruses of electric guitar on "Turnaround," bringing his distinctive tone and harmonic sophistication to this Ornette Coleman blues. At approximately 156 BPM, Metheny navigates the 12-bar form in C with a mix of lyrical phrasing and angular melodic invention that contrasts with Redman's more blues-drenched approach. His five choruses demonstrate the range of his improvisational palette, from clean melodic statements to more harmonically adventurous passages that push against the straightforward changes. Coleman originally recorded the tune with a pianoless quartet, and Metheny's guitar fills a similar textural role here, adding harmonic richness without disrupting the open, exploratory spirit of the performance.
Pat Metheny was 38 to 39 years old at the time.
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