| Rejoicing | ||||
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| Released | 1984 | |||
| Recorded | November 29–30, 1983 | |||
| Studio | Power Station, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 43:53 | |||
| Label | ECM 1271 | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Rejoicing is an album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny recorded over two days in November 1983 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features rhythm section Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, both of whom played with Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In addition to his own compositions, Metheny plays three compositions by Coleman, and Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman" (not to be confused with the Coleman composition of the same title, which Metheny does not play on the album).
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  [3] |
| DownBeat | [4] |
Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "Throughout this excellent set, Metheny and his sidemen engage in close communication and create memorable and unpredictable music." [1]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Lonely Woman" | Horace Silver | 6:50 |
| 2. | "Tears Inside" | Ornette Coleman | 3:50 |
| 3. | "Humpty Dumpty" | Ornette Coleman | 5:42 |
| 4. | "Blues for Pat" | Charlie Haden | 6:06 |
| 5. | "Rejoicing" | Ornette Coleman | 3:24 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Story from a Stranger" | Pat Metheny | 5:53 |
| 2. | "The Calling" | Pat Metheny | 9:52 |
| 3. | "Waiting for an Answer" | Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden | 2:16 |
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80/81 is a double album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny recorded over four days in May 1980 and released on ECM later that year. The trio features rhythm section Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette with guest saxophonists Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker.
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In Angel City is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden's Quartet West, recorded in 1988 and released on the Verve label.
Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1970 and released on the Flying Dutchman label.
Blues For Pat: Live in San Francisco, is a live album by The Joshua Redman Quartet featuring Pat Metheny, Christian McBride and Billy Higgins, released in 1995.
Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 is a live album by pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Charlie Haden recorded in California in 1958 and released on the Inner City label in 1976. The album was the first live recording of Ornette Coleman, made shortly after he recorded his first album, Something Else!!!! and featuring the group that would soon record the Atlantic albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Change of the Century (1960).
Coleman Classics Volume 1 is a live album by pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Charlie Haden recorded in California in 1958 and released Bley's on the Improvising Artists label in 1977. The album is an early live recording of Ornette Coleman, made shortly after his first album, Something Else!!!! and featuring the group that would soon record the Atlantic albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Change of the Century (1960).
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