“Tell It All” by Pat Metheny Group

"Tell It All" comes from First Circle, the Pat Metheny Group's fourth studio album, which they knocked out in four days in February 1984; ECM had it in the shops before the year was out. Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays wrote it together, and it's one of the spots where the group reached for sounds it had never put on record before: Mays plays agogô bells here as well as piano.

The lineup had shifted, too. Paul Wertico had taken over the drums from Danny Gottlieb, and the group had brought in Pedro Aznar, a multi-instrumentalist who had already made his name back home in Argentina with Serú Girán; on this track he sings and plays percussion. Metheny is on guitar and Steve Rodby on acoustic bass guitar.

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