By George Varga, The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — San Diego guitar great Peter Sprague’s album-release concert at Tio Leo’s Sunday should be one for the record books. The album’s 23-year-long gestation is almost worthy of a music-fueled reboot of the popular 1960s TV series “The Twilight Zone.”

A past collaborator of such jazz legends as Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins, Hubert Laws and Pat Metheny, Sprague will be selling copies of his new album, “The Width of The World,” at his Tio Leo’s gig. The fact he will not be performing a single selection from it sounds counterintuitive, since album-release concerts are, by definition, designed to promote the album whose release they are celebrating.

But Sprague’s decision to do so — or, rather, not to do so — is a pragmatic necessity.

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