John Hackett Band guitarist’s latest exquisite meld of prog and jazz.
Nick Fletcher won’t have it. Don’t call his music rock, prog, classical or fusion, the well-travelled guitarist says, it’s just music – and music he hopes people will enjoy listening to.
No problem there. A Longing For Home is a wonderfully sublime mix of grandstanding jazz fusion (there, said it) with a prog-rock (sorry) sensibility that is both dizzying in its mellifluousness while still being incredibly easy on the ear. Fletcher has the sense of melody that fans of guitarist Pat Metheny will embrace like an old friend; the ability to make a song feel like staring out at the world through a big picture window. That’s especially evident in the aching Her Eyes Of Azure Blue, an understated…
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