Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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"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 ...

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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 ...

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Pat Metheny: Orchestrion

by Nenad Georgievski
February 4, 2010

In Pat Metheny's career, stylistic shifts and sudden breaks from the norm occur more often than not. Even though it is evident that he is rooted in jazz, his music encompasses so much more. With the exception of few records, Metheny has been playing it pretty safe for some time now, sticking to his own personal vision of variations on the Americana/jazz theme. Pat Metheny Group's The Way Up (Nonesuch, 2005) and his jazz trio's Day Trip ...

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Pat Metheny: Pat Metheny: Orchestrion

by Doug Collette
January 31, 2010

Orchestrion is no doubt going to be tremendously popular with Pat Metheny's devoted fan base, and anyone else who takes the opportunity to see the man on his upcoming tour. As one of the guitarist/composer's grandest projects, it will attract more than a few of those casually acquainted with Metheny's fame, curiosity piqued by the unusual concept behind the recording; the CD is enclosed in a triple-fold digipak with an array of color photos, no doubt intended to startle.

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