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Pat Metheny Unity Band Nonesuch Records 2012 It may be premature to write about the Pat Metheny Group in the past tense, but it's been seven years now since The Way Up (Nonesuch Records, 2005) and its last world tour. A feeling is creeping in that the 68-minute opus may have been a magnificent closing statement and a poignant swansong for that important group. How, precisely, do you top that? The perpetually busy Missouri guitarist ...

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Unity Band

by John Kelman
June 8, 2012

In a time when compressed music is the norm—often removing the details an artist has worked so hard to capture in recording—it's great to have someone like guitarist Pat Metheny still paying attention to the very minutiae that can make a very, very good record great. Unity Band would be a very, very good record under any circumstance. It's Metheny's first recording to prominently feature a reedman since 1985's collaboration with Ornette Coleman, Song X—tremendously remixed and remastered in a ...

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Pat Metheny: What's It All About

by Nenad Georgievski
October 9, 2011

Pat MethenyWhat's It All About Nonesuch Records2011 On first listen, this is an interesting record, on second, a great record, and on third and onward, What's It All About is an essential record. Recorded in the same manner as guitarist Pat Metheny's previous solo outing, One Quiet Night, (Nonesuch, 2003), Metheny sat one night with his acoustic guitars and made this wonderful offering.As a genre, jazz has always been both ...

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Album Review

Pat Metheny: What's It All About

Read "What's It All About" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 7, 2011

Pat Metheny has released plenty of solo albums over the years, but One Quiet Night (Nonesuch, 2003) found him turning to a different modus operandi, imposing a series of restrictions: one guitar, one tuning, no overdubs. An intimate album of mostly original material, beyond three covers including Keith Jarrett's “My Song" and Gerry & the Pacemakers' hit, “Ferry Cross the Mersey," One Quiet Night was a more intimate and immediate alternative to his production-heavy Pat Metheny Group releases, and recent ...

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Live Review

Pat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Binghamton University October 19, 2010

by CJ Shearn
November 4, 2010

Pat MethenyAnderson Center for the Performing Arts, Osterhout Theater, Binghamton UniversityBinghamton, New YorkOctober 19, 2010 Guitarist Pat Metheny's mastery of the intricacies of his Orchestrion was on dazzling display Tuesday evening, October 19, 2010, at the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts, Osterhout Theater, on the campus of Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. The concert was a homecoming of sorts, as the guitarist returned to the upstate New York town after a decade ...

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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 ...

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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 ...