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Pat Metheny takes the first solo with one chorus of electric guitar on the live performance of Joshua Redman's title track "Wish," a ballad at approximately 67 BPM built on an unusual 28-bar AABC form in G major. His characteristically warm tone and sophisticated harmonic choices paint a luminous soundscape over Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins's gentle rhythm section accompaniment. The composition's searching, hopeful quality is reflected in Metheny's lyrical phrasing, each note carefully placed within the spacious ballad framework. As the album's closing track captured live, the performance carries an immediacy and spontaneity that distinguish it from the studio recordings, with the audience's presence adding an extra dimension of intimacy.
Pat Metheny was 38 to 39 years old at the time.
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