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Transcendence Plays Music of Pat Metheny

Transcendence

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:43:07
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Tracks

1. Question & Answer (Pat Metheny) 6:05 2. Afternoon (Pat Metheny) 5:15 3. The Bat (Pat Metheny) 6:29 4. Offramp (Lyle Mays And Pat Metheny) 7:35 5. Dolphin Dance (Herbie Hancock) 5:42 6. Everything That Lives Laments (Keith Jarrett) 6:33 7. Roof Dogs (Pat Metheny) 5:38

Personnel

Transcendence

band / ensemble / orchestra

Bob Gluck

piano

Karl Latham

drums

Christopher Dean Sullivan

bass, acoustic

Additional Personnel / Information

FMR CD 718-0125. Produced for FMR by Trevor Taylor CD design by Ewan Rigg Photographs by Bob Gluck, painting by Stan Gluck, and bandmember collage by Christopher Dean Sullivan. Recorded live by Karl Latham at Firefly Studio Mixed and mastered by Paul Wickliffe at Skyline Productions

Album Description

“Transcendence” is the premier recording of a new dynamic piano trio featuring pianist Bob Gluck, bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan, and drummer Karl Latham. This versatile trio brings a dynamic synergy to the music of Pat Metheny. This makes for a fruitful pairing of a repertoire and approach to performance that each transcend categorization. On this outing, five Metheny compositions are complimented by music by Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock, music rooted in jazz while rising beyond genre. What super charges the performance is each musician’s ability to listen, respond, and truly make music together. Gluck is primarily on acoustic piano during the explorative post-bop music of “Question and Answer” , a harmonically rich version of “Afternoon”, and the beautifully picturesque “The Bat”. Two other Metheny pieces, “Offramp” and “Roof Dogs” feature Gluck playing the Roli Seaboard, a keyboard instrument that projects an intense sound invoking Jimi Hendrix's tightrope walk between pitch and distortion. The stimulating support and musical commentary supplied by Sullivan (who also takes a few lyrical solos) and drummer Latham give the ensemble a unified sound and the group its own musical personality. The same is true on an abstract and acoustic version of Herbie Hancock’s “Dolphin Dance” and a thought-provoking exploration of Keith Jarrett’s “Everything That Lives Laments”; the latter has some of Sullivan’s most inventive bass playing of the memorable set. Together as Transcendence, Gluck, Sullivan and Latham form a memorable team, reinventing past classics of Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett in their own voices. The recording also keenly complements Bob Gluck's recently released book "Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words" (University of Chicago Press, 2024), which emerged from the recording of this album.

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