Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

About Pat Metheny

Year in Review

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our most popular in 2024. The late Chris May placed five reviews in the top ten. MoonDial Pat Metheny Reviewed by Chris May July 12, 2024 Eagle's Point Chris Potter Reviewed by Chris May March 3, 2024 The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow Charles Lloyd Reviewed by Mike ...

Live Review

Pat Metheny al Roma Jazz Festival

by Mario Calvitti
November 15, 2024

Pat Metheny Auditorium Sala S. Cecilia Roma Jazz Festival Roma 4 novembre 2024 Il lungo tour (il primo in completa solitudine) di Pat Metheny, iniziato già lo scorso anno negli Stati Uniti in seguito alla pubblicazione del suo album di sola chitarra Dream Box (da cui il nome del tour), approda finalmente in Europa, con sei concerti in altrettante città Italiane, per accontentare anche i suoi fans d'oltreoceano. Quella di Roma è stata l'ultima ...

Multiple Reviews

Brilliant ECM Luminessence Series Shines New Light On Classic Vinyl

by Joshua Weiner
September 5, 2024

Blue Note. Verve. Impulse! ESP-Disk. Just saying the name of such storied jazz record labels immediately conjures up each one's distinct aesthetic, from the music to the cover art. By the close of the 1960s, jazz was undergoing a period of intense change, with an unprecedented mixing and matching of styles and influences--both musical and political--that shuffled the deck and led labels to chase new markets. Blue Note and Impulse! got funky, Verve signed underground rock artists, ESP-Disk treaded water, ...

Album Review

Pat Metheny: MoonDial

Read "MoonDial" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
August 5, 2024

MoonDial, l'album appena pubblicato alla vigilia del settantesimo compleanno di Pat Metheny, è un altro lavoro realizzato in solitudine, come il precedente Dream Box uscito un anno fa, ma a differenza di quello è stato registrato senza fare ricorso a sovraincisioni, e utilizzando solamente una chitarra baritono. Questo fatto lo collega direttamente ai precedenti lavori solistici One Quiet Night del 2003 e What's It All About del 2011, per i quali aveva utilizzato uno strumento costruito appositamente per lui dalla ...

Album Review

Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life

Read "Bright Size Life" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
July 27, 2024

Reissued as part of ECM's 180gm-vinyl audiophile Luminessence series, Bright Size Life was originally released in 1976 and features Pat Metheny leading his then regular touring trio completed by bassist Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. It is a lively and lovely album and rediscovering it should be a delightful experience for anyone who has perhaps left it on the shelf for a few years, particularly delightful given the latest edition's sonic splendor. Metheny himself has long ...

Album Review

Pat Metheny: MoonDial

by Chris May
July 12, 2024

Pat Metheny was first encountered in this parish in the autumn of 1982, promoting Offramp (ECM), released earlier in the year. He was making a London stopover on the tour which produced the live album Travels (ECM, 1983). Interviewed at Kensington's Royal Garden Hotel, where his well-worn denim stood him out from the generally snooty clientele, he gave off a first impression of a cresting speed freak, his hair wild and with more than plenty to say for himself. At ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ray Obiedo, Rachel Gould, Tierney Sutton & Pat Metheny

by Joe Dimino
May 5, 2024

We start the 853rd Episode of Neon Jazz with the Lee's Summit Jazz Orchestra with their take on Basie Straight Ahead as we gear up for the 1st Annual Lee's Summit Jazz Festival in Pat Metheny's hometown. Speaking of, we hear the title track off Pat's upcoming summer 2024 release of MoonDial. From there, we spin music from David Larsen, Riley Mulherkar, Ricky Alexander and Sean Fyfe. We also profile veterans Ray Obiedo and Rachel Gould. We wrap up the ...