01	Allegro Con Brio, Symphony No. 5						05:26
	02	Arroyo						03:39
	03	Pathways						04:29
	04	Leap						02:53
	05	Adagio Opus 11						04:00
	06	Great Divide						02:32
	07	Scramble						02:01
	08	Classical Gas						02:55
	09	Kaleidoscope						00:55
	10	Ananda						02:49
	11	Adagio Sostenuto, Moonlight Sonata						02:42
	12	Presto Agitato, Moonlight Sonata						04:45
	13	Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring						02:40
	14	Misirlou						04:27
	15	Data						12:01

Hideyo Moriya, guitar;
Bert Lams, guitar;
Paul Richards, guitar;
with Bill Jansen, sax; Roger Lambson, sax; Trey Gunn, Warr guitar

Jon Byrne:
I had only heard a few snippets of the California Guitar Trio before I found this disc while on vacation this summer. Having listened to it several times, I have to say that while I'm glad I've got this disc, I can't se myself going out and getting many other CGT discs.
As you can tell from the track list above, the album is a mix of originals, covers, and classical interpretations. It's the latter of those which impressed me the most, particularly the opening Beethoven movement and the "Jesu", although it would have been nice to heard that as a guitar only piece (soprano sax handles the soaring melody line here). The original material is also quite good, flavored nicely in places by saxes and Trey Gunn's Warr guitar. The focus of this disc, however, are the three acoustic guitarists, who each seem to be masters of their instruments.
The problem with the album, at least to my ears, is that after a while it all begins to run together. Since most of the tracks are based on simply the acoustics they tend to be similar in tone. A carefully listening will reveal differences, but there's nothing on the surface that makes tracks stand out from each other. That makes this disc not one which I am likely to reach for very often. Perhaps it's my loss.
In the end there's very little bad I can say about this album, except that it doesn't really connect with me. I appreciate the playing, and I'd love to see these guys live. But this album will probably spend a lot of time on the shelf.

Bob Eichler:
I fully agree with Jon Byrne's assessment of the album - there's nothing bad about it, but in the end it's just not a "must have" album. I just wanted to add that I find the first two CGT albums (Yamanashi Blues and Invitation) to be more enjoyable listens. They feature the same classical/cover/surf music/original type of setlist as Pathways, but for some reason the song selections and performances on the early albums appeal to me more. Pathways just sounds a bit too sterile.

Joe McGlinchey:
Unfortunately, it seems that for me the California Guitar Trio is a "primacy effect" kind of band: buy the first album and you've more or less bought them all. If you already own any of the Trio's previous work and are less than a rabid fan of theirs, there is little reason I can think of to own this. Again, a bunch of classical music interpretations, the semi-campy pick (here it's "Misirlou"), and some okay but far from gut-wrenching originals. Also again, I find their arrangements of Bach and Beethoven, with the three guitars approximating a harpsichord-like sound, to be generally rote recitals with little emotion. And the disc as a whole really starts diving into the Barnes and Nobles Background Music realm relatively quickly. The Trio really needs to try something completely new for their next album, and by that I don't mean a cover of "The Dukes of Hazzard" or "I Will Survive." Otherwise, they seriously are starting to enter the one-trick pony (well, okay, several-trick pony) races.