This video was recorded at a live concert in Japan in 1992. It shows the Pat Metheny Group with possibly it’s finest line-up playing possibly it’s best tune. It’s proper fusion-jazz (not all out fusion obviously) with all of it’s extrovert orchestrations and difficult arrangements. I wouldn’t say that it is to everyone’s tastes either, but for those who are...

Desolate Shore is a classic video clip from the Jazz Club series which featured heavily on the BBC’s Fast Show in the 1990′s. It was an intelligent take on the funnier side of jazz music and was so well done that you know those guys actually quite liked jazz and spent a fair amount of time in jazz clubs. Anyway, Paul Whitehouse on lead guitar is absolutely hilarious, I just love the...