Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

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Pat Metheny w/ Dave Holland & Roy Haynes: Question and Answer

by John Kelman
November 2, 2008

As Nonesuch's remaster/reissue program of guitarist Pat Metheny's Geffen-era discography draws to a close, one of the best discs from that period, Question and Answer, finally sounds the way it should, revealing itself to be deserving of even greater accolades than it received when first released in 1990. Better known for his flagship Pat Metheny Group, it's on his occasional trio dates that Metheny really stretches out--focusing less on production, composition, and arrangement, and more on just playing. ...

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Pat Metheny: Tokyo Day Trip

by John Kelman
May 28, 2008

Subtitled Live EP, Tokyo Day Trip is a specially priced gift for those who've missed the opportunity to see guitarist Pat Metheny and his trio of the past couple years, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez. At half the length of what a CD can hold, it's 41 minutes of pure gold from the best trio of Metheny's career. The spark that is by no means absent from the trio's studio recording, Day Trip (Nonesuch, 2008), is simply that ...

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Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live

by John Kelman
May 9, 2008

Eagle Eye Media 2001 (reissued 2008) Some artists are revolutionary, others are evolutionary. Some manage to be both, and guitarist Pat Metheny is one of a small group of artists who, always moving forward, occasionally make more striking stylistic leaps. With a string of consistently strong albums that began with Pat Metheny Group (ECM, 1978), Metheny's flagship group has evolved, sometimes in baby steps, other times in larger increments, culminating with the groove-happy We Live Here ...

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Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live

by Doug Collette
April 15, 2008

Pat Metheny Group Imaginary Day: Live Eagle Eye Media 2008

A composite of three nights of performances from 1998, Imaginary Day Live reaffirms the ambition and skill of Pat Metheny, his long-time collaborator Lyle Mays and the varied talents of the Group of the time (including the cinematic skill of bassist Steve Rodby).

As with the similarly conceived and executed DVD of The Way Up, the technical expertise of the ...

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Pat Metheny: Day Trip

by J Hunter
April 4, 2008

Although Pat Metheny gets top billing on Day Trip, this is not a one-off superstar meetup, a la 80/81 (ECM, 1980), Question and Answer (Geffen Records, 1990), and I Can See Your House from Here (Blue Note, 1993). Metheny has toured with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez, on and off, for the past few years; on Metheny's Web site, the group is called the Pat Metheny Trio. Nonesuch may have billed Day Trip the way it did, in order to ...

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Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X: Twentieth Anniversary

by Chris May
March 31, 2008

Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman Song X: Twentieth Anniversary Nonesuch Records 2005 The untrammeled pleasure Pat Metheny has given this listener over the last couple of months with the freewheeling trio album Day Trip (Nonesuch Records, 2008) has prompted a trawl through the guitarist's back catalogue in search of another solid gold fix.

It's been a lot of fun--with the highlights including two other trio sets, Trio 99-00 (Warner Bros, 1999) and ...

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Pat Metheny: Day Trip

by Francis Lo Kee
March 10, 2008

Pat Metheny's -Day Trip gets underway with the up-tempo “Son of Thirteen," bringing to mind the best of his playing, which combines the seemingly contradictory qualities of explosive virtuosity and tender lyricism. In his wheelhouse, the guitarist also knows how to feature the talents of collaborators (eg, Jaco Pastorius on Metheny's 1976 ECM debut as a leader, Bright Size Life) and it's clear from the first two tracks that bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez will contribute mightily to ...