Results for "Pat Metheny Group"

Marion Meadows: Secrets

by Woodrow Wilkins
April 22, 2009

Regardless of the genre, an acoustic drum kit generally makes for a better sound than an electronic program. However, when the latter is done well, the difference can be staggering. That's one factor that makes Marion Meadows' Secrets function. Meadows began playing saxophone at age eight. His studies led him to appreciate such ...

Episode D'Azur

Featuring the music of Pat Metheny Group
Duration: 10:37
November 27, 2008

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 ...

Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up - Live

by CJ Shearn
October 22, 2006

Pat Metheny Group The Way Up--Live Eagle Eye Media 2006 The Pat Metheny Group expands on its masterpiece with this live performance. Throughout the group's 27 year existence, these musicians have consistently redefined what a contemporary jazz ensemble can be, and who they are as a band, each ...

Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up Live

by John Kelman
October 20, 2006

Pat Metheny GroupThe Way Up LiveEagle Eye Media 2006 One of most exciting aspects of live performance is the opportunity to see how a group translates music from the studio to the concert stage. With production values that more closely resemble those of a marquee rock group, the nearly three-decade-old ...

Pat Metheny Group Reissues: We Live Here & Quartet

by John Kelman
May 27, 2006

With 1994's We Live Here and the 1996 follow-up Quartet, Nonesuch continues its series of remastered reissues from guitar icon Pat Metheny's out-of-print Geffen era. Metheny has long been a controversial figure in jazz, engendering polarization amongst jazz listeners, with his flagship Pat Metheny Group often the most contentiously debated. More composition-oriented than ...

A Trio of Pat Metheny Group Reissues

by John Kelman
February 20, 2006

Why artists and/or record labels choose to release remastered versions of pre-existing material can range from the purely artistic to the shamelessly monetary. Sometimes it's a case of getting material, previously out-of-print, back into the marketplace for people who, for whatever reason, didn't pick the material up the first time around. Sometimes the target audience is ...

The Way Up

By Pat Metheny Group

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Opening; Part One; Part Two; Part Three.

Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up

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 ...

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 ...