Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Montreal

by Pascal-Denis Lussier
October 23, 2010

Pat MethenyOrchestrion TourPlace des ArtsMontreal, CanadaOctober 12, 2010 Curiosity. More than anything else it was this that made guitarist/composer Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Tour concert at Montreal's Place des Arts complex (another stop on his successful 120-plus major-cities world tour) something to truly anticipate. I can't claim being a true Metheny fan, my leanings are more towards Bill Frisell, but, while Metheny's compositional style speaks far less to me than to ...

Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project Live at The Flynn Burington VT

by Doug Collette
October 19, 2010

Pat MethenyFlynn Center for the Performing ArtsBurlington, VermontOctober 5, 2010 Pat Metheny as one-man band? As mad scientist? As master innovator/musician of the (not-so) new millennium? All those thoughts and perceptions came to mind during the two-plus hours the Missouri-born guitarist and composer turned the MainStage of the Flynn Center for The Performing Arts into a combination of laboratory and classroom.In all the years Metheny has appeared at the Flynn-eighteen times total as ...

Pat Metheny, Orchestrion Tour in Denver

by Geoff Anderson
May 19, 2010

Pat Metheny Paramount Theater Denver, CO May 5, 2010

“Because it's there." That's the classic answer to the question of why climb the big mountain. That's pretty close to the explanation for Pat Metheny's current Orchestrion tour. He's taken the concept of the one-man-band to heights never dreamed of by buskers and carnival acts and built a giant musical machine with more instruments than The Music Man, Harold Hill, sold in his life. It ...

Pat Metheny: One Man's Band

by Tom Greenland
May 19, 2010

In plays such as Medea and Alcestis, the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides was roundly criticized, even parodied, for his use of an artificial plot device or deus ex machina ("god from the machine"), because it violated narrative logic and challenged the audience's suspension of disbelief. Guitarist Pat Metheny, never one to shy away from wrathful gods, has taken a bold step on his latest tour: eliminating his band in favor of a miraculous machine able to extend and expand his ...

Pat Metheny: Orchestrion

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 16, 2010

Ha mobilitato uno stuolo di programmatori, elettrotecnici e ingegneri Pat Metheny per realizzare il sogno che cullava fin da bambino. Altro che diventare un famoso chitarrista e vendere decine di migliaia di dischi, altro che suonare con Ornette Coleman e riempire i palazzetti dello sport di mezzo mondo; noi mica lo sapevamo, ma l'eterno bravo ragazzo del Missouri da sempre sognava di automatizzare, attraverso le tecniche più complesse e bislacche, decine di strumenti musicali (percussioni variamente assortite, un pianoforte, un ...

"Orchestrion," el gabinete del Dr. Metheny en Madrid

by Antonio Álvarez Barthe
February 20, 2010

Pat Metheny OrchestrionTeatro Circo PriceMadrid, España18 de febrero del 2010Tiene toda la lógica que el primero de los cuatro conciertos españoles de la gira de presentación del proyecto Orchestrion de Pat Metheny haya sido en el Teatro Circo Price, una sala de carácter multifuncional que, además de actividades musicales, y como su propio nombre da a entender, programa regularmente espectáculos de circo. Porque en esta nueva encarnación del proteico Metheny como factótum de una orquesta ...

Pat Metheny Orchestrion Tour: Soaring in the Netherlands

by Phillip Woolever
February 15, 2010

Pat Metheny Orchestrion Frits Philips Music Center Eindhoven, Netherlands February 12, 2010 How much soul can you get from a solenoid? Plenty, if you're guitarist--and now orchestrion arranger--Pat Metheny.

Soul had been the subject separating hope from hype as Metheny's Orchestrion Tour started to roll across Europe. News coverage of Metheny's recently released album--Orchestrion (Nonesuch, 2010)--provided considerable marketing impetus and Metheny's instincts have taken it from there. This is a ...