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Pat Metheny: Tap - John Zorn's Book of Angels | Vol. 20
by Nenad Georgievski
Literary, anything and everything can and will happen in composer John Zorn's constantly evolving musical world. Within that world, surprise and exploration are an important ingredients, as much as the cross-styling or the plethora of approaches for the different kinds of collaborative compositions he has created for the players involved. This surprising crossed paths of Zorn and guitarist Pat Metheny, as one of the performers/interpreters of his Book of Angels series (a subset of Zorn's ongoing Masada saga), is a ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
La strana coppia! Negli anni è diventato sempre più difficile, se non impossibile, valutare la produzione di John Zorn con i tradizionali strumenti critici: una delle caratteristiche più “geniali" e in un certo senso eversive del sassofonista e compositore newyorkese è infatti certamente quella di avere sottratto progressivamente la propria musica alle traiettorie dialettiche conosciute, attraverso una produzione multiforme e abbondantissima che diventa essa stessa “opera d'arte" o comunque “strategia artistica" prima ancora della musica [spesso bella e interessante] che ...
Continue ReadingTap - John Zorn's Book of Angels | Vol. 20
by John Kelman
It's difficult to know what is most surprising about Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels | Vol. 20. It's the first collaboration between guitarist Pat Metheny and saxophonist/composer/Tzadik label head John Zorn, two musicians who, at least on the surface, couldn't be more different. Of course, those who look beyond Metheny's more listener-friendly Pat Metheny Group to recordings like the searing Zero Tolerance for Silence (Geffen, 1994), his particularly stellar collaboration with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, Song X (Geffen, 1985, reissued ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project
by AAJ Italy Staff
La lunga tournée mondiale conseguente alla pubblicazione del CD Orchestrion (oltre 100 concerti, comprese alcune tappe in Italia - clicca qui per leggere la recensione del concerto di Roma) che lo ha tenuto impegnato per la maggior parte del 2010 è stata per il chitarrista Pat Metheny un evento unico e irripetibile. La sfida (perchè essenzialmente di questo si è trattato) dell'affrontare ogni concerto in completa solitudine facendosi accompagnare non da una band ma da un enorme ammasso di strumenti ...
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by John Kelman
With The Orchestrion Project (Eagle Eye Media, 2012), Pat Metheny provided a detailed visual look into the workings of the guitarist's complex, custom-built conglomeration of instruments--triggered by pneumatics, solenoids and computer programs--that took this orchestral successor to the player piano (the first known version being the panharmonicon, in 1805) not just into a new century, but a new millennium. An in-depth All About Jazz review of the DVD/Blu-Ray/3D Blu-Ray release, covered the history of the project and the music performed ...
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by John Kelman
Pat Metheny The Orchestrion Project Eagle Eye Media 2012 When guitarist Pat Metheny released Orchestrion (Nonesuch) in 2010, it almost immediately became one of his most controversial recordings since Zero Tolerance for Silence (Warner Bros., 1992). Why, in a jazz world, where interaction with other musicians is so fundamental to its spirit, to its raison d'être, would one of the most important guitarists of his generation not only release an album that replaced live musicians ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny Unity Band: Denver, CO, September 7, 2012
by Geoff Anderson
Pat Metheny Unity BandBotanic GardensDenver, COSeptember 7, 2012Pat Metheny is restless. And we're all the richer for it. Over a career that is now pushing 40 years, Metheny has been a constant innovator, not only in the development of musical styles, but new sounds as well, going so far as to invent new musical instruments to help him push, and sometimes explode, sonic boundaries. Now on tour with his Unity Band, Metheny showcased many of ...
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