Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins – Rejoicing (E/VG+) – LP, DE 1984

Rejoicing is an LP by Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Billy Higgins from 1984 released on the ECM Records label.

About this album

Rejoicing is a lyrical and subtly adventurous 1984 jazz album that unites Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins in remarkably poised interplay. Recorded for ECM, the set brings Metheny’s fluid guitar lines into close conversation with Haden’s deep, singing bass and Higgins’ understated, supple drumming, giving standards and originals alike a rare sense of openness and balance. Its reading of Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman is especially striking, while pieces such as Rejoicing and Blues For Pat show how the trio could turn restraint into momentum. The album is widely regarded as one of Metheny’s most graceful small-group statements.