Quite simple, for me, Biréli LaGréne , if I had to choose, the world's greatest guitarrista, ...EVER! Case closed, story told.

A child prodigy, making Django-sounds before he hit puberty, Biréli is one of the few musicians who play the instrument more than "the instrument playes him"! Magari! I wish I so lucky!

He plays any and all styles, with incredible harmonic concept, a melodic and ritmic mastery , measured by flawless technique.

He plays sometime "too fast", but not to be a "flash guitarrista", but because, like top line professional ateletes, for ex, are calibrated to "warp speed"(as a Star Treks fan might say), everything moves faster for these people!

Consistant inventiveness in solo approach , and beautiful chord choices to the stars are destroyed only here on this CD by some bad choices in composing. A 4 beat to the bar disco , some unneeded hip hop influences, but , even at the worse of it, the incredible concept of Biréli shine thru!

This recording features one MAGNIFICENT track, it is the 3rd (maybe4th?) version of his Jaco-inspired (inspired by Jaco the 'composer') "timoteé"!

Here, augmented by saxofone and piano, multi track voices and over dub guitar solo(He also takes solo on eletric bass), and this in the "Jaco the bassist" moda, he finishes off this beautiful but simple melodia with a piano solo over samba, before a gentle guitar chord -melody coda.

This composition and rendering of it ALMOST woth the incredible HIGH price of the cd.

So, all in all, if you a "straight ahead" jazz aficionado, you might HATE 3/4 this recording,a lover of all great sounds, no matter the idioma will fare better.

Be warned, this not a perfect recording, it is stylistically too diverse for uncompromising and parochial ears.

but anything by the "greatest guitarrista ever" is worth to listen, no?