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Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 6, July 5, 2005

by John Kelman
July 7, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 There's always a unique vibe to the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, but this year the excitement is even greater. In the festival's early days, guitar legend Pat Metheny was a constant fixture at the festival, appearing with his own projects, collaborating with others, ...

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Album Review

Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up

Read "The Way Up" reviewed by Eddie Becton

by Eddie Becton
April 20, 2005

The Way Up marks guitarist Pat Metheny's debut release on the Nonesuch label. Metheny fans are in for treat, 68 uninterrupted minutes of pure Pat Metheny Group, inconspicuously evident upon recognizing the CD's four tracks, “Opening," “Part One," “Part Two," and “Part Three." Each movement, appropriately called because every track aside from “Opening" ranges from 15 minutes to over 25, builds upon its predecessor and paints a colorful mural of the group's mission.

“Opening" is classic Metheny, i.e., acoustic, passionate, ...

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Interview

A Fireside Chat with Pat Metheny

by AAJ Staff
February 24, 2005

Defying definition and escaping categorization, Pat Metheny's contributions to jazz have been downplayed. But Metheny, relaxed, seems to be at peace and untroubled by his perceived enigma.All About Jazz: With the suspension of the jazz at Warner Bros., Nonesuch is a fashionable lateral move.Pat Metheny: My situation was unique in the sense that since 1984, when I left ECM, I started my own production company. Basically, we license our records to record companies. I haven't been ...

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Live Review

Pat Metheny Group Heats Up Toronto

by Alain Londes
February 24, 2005

Following its Buffalo appearance, the Pat Metheny Group performed its second concert of the anticipated world tour before a capacity crowd at the Hummingbird Center in Toronto on February 18. This was the same location where the group performed three years ago on the last world tour. Metheny recognized Toronto as a major center for the arts.

As the audience entered the concert hall and looked for their seats, they could already hear the Reichian introduction to the group's ...

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Live Review

Pat Metheny Group in Potsdam, NY

by John Kelman
February 18, 2005

Pat Metheny Group shows have, over the years, evolved into more than mere musical performance; they are events , with the production values of a rock and roll show including a technological stage set-up second to none in the jazz world (and many in the rock world, for that matter) and, with well-conceived lighting and a large rear projection screen, a multimedia affair to boot. This fits well with the fact that, while improvisation is a key component of any ...

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Album Review

Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up

Read "The Way Up" reviewed by Alain Londes

by Alain Londes
February 14, 2005

City traffic noises briefly lead into an inviting, fast introduction. Such is the opening of the Pat Metheny Group's most recent release.

Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, the original Group's brain trust, have created a 68-minute suite that encapsulates a number of stylistic devices introduced throughout the history of their collaboration. Steve Rodby continues to lay the grounding with his acoustic and electric bass, as well as cello. Trumpeter Cuong Vu and drummer Antonio Sanchez continue ...

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Album Review

Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up

Read "The Way Up" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini

by Mark Sabbatini
February 3, 2005

Pat Metheny hasn't exactly been on a roll lately. The guitarist typically alternates safe and daring work, satisfying mainstream hordes while reassuring purists he's still among the modern masters. But lately it's been more mellow and less leaving the nest, and some of it sounds long in the tooth.

So it's refreshing that, even though The Way Up is another album by the mainstream- oriented Pat Metheny Group, it contains just four tracks, three of which are between ...