The meat of the book [...] is found in Cooke's scrupulously detailed musical analysis. Illustrating his descriptions with copious music examples, he surveys Metheny's decade at ECM album by album, concentrating on the leader himself.
Mervyn Cooke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century music, jazz, film music and composition. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music and King's College Cambridge, he is the author and editor of numerous and widely translated books on jazz, film music and the life and works of Benjamin Britten.