Results for "pat metheny"

Ornette Coleman's and Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman" — A Disambiguation

by Artur Moral
July 27, 2025

Reality is filled with confusion and misunderstandings; some are suggestive or creative, while others are disappointing or, worse, malicious. The jazz world is no stranger to the first type: specific compositions are often confused or misidentified as if they were the same. Usually, this happens because of similar melodies or titles that are sometimes identical. This ...

BEATrio at the Perry Pavilion

by Mark Robbins
July 16, 2025

Béla Fleck is a trailblazing banjo player whose genre-defying approach has redefined the possibilities of the instrument. Born in New York City in 1958 and named after the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, he's spent his career weaving bluegrass, jazz, classical, and world music into dazzling sonic tapestries. Whether leading his groundbreaking group Béla Fleck and the ...

Daniel Garbin: Rising

by Freddie Bryant
July 1, 2025

The maxim that music and math are related is a truism that seldom gets explored in a deep fashion. It lies like a cliché that we take for granted and rarely appreciate. Daniel Garbin's life and music is a true celebration of that relationship. He is an associate professor with the Department of Mathematics and Computer ...

Will Brahm: Distance to Empty

by Karan Khosla
June 16, 2025

Distance to Empty is a phrase that carries a familiar feeling--something you might glimpse glowing on the dashboard as you pull away from a final pit stop before a long journey. Will Brahm, metaphorically and musically, poses these questions: How far can you go with what you have? What is left in the tank? What is ...

Transcendence

Active since: January 1, 2000

“Transcendence” is a new dynamic trio featuring keyboardist Bob Gluck, bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan, and drummer Karl Latham. 

Bob Gluck is a pianist, electronic musician, and writer. Among his thirteen recordings are Early Morning Star (2020, with Andrea Wolper, Kinan Azmeh, Ken Filiano, and Tani Tabbal) and Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band (2016, with Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, and Christopher Dean Sullivan). His University of Chicago Press books, now joined by Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words include You’ll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Bandand The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles. His book The Musical World of Paul Winter was published by Terra Nova Press in 2025. Other musical collaborators have included Aruan Ortiz, Michael Bisio, Joe Giardullo, Neil Rolnick, Andrew Sterman, Dean Sharp, and Jane Ira Bloom. Bob Gluck is Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany. http://www.electricsongs.com/

Horace Tapscott, Smiley Winters, and Blue Stars of France

by Jerome Wilson
June 11, 2025

This is a vintage episode first heard on January 19, 2021. The cast for this show includes Horace Tapscott, Smiley Winters. Marc Ribot, Marion Brown, and the Blue Stars of France. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextet “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air ...

Pat Metheny At The Sydney Opera House

by Barry O'Sullivan
June 10, 2025

Pat Metheny Sydney Opera House Vivid LIVESydney, Australia June 1, 2025 Pat Metheny once again took the stage at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall for Vivid LIVE. However, unlike his previous performance in Sydney in 2020 at the State Theatre this show was to be a one-man band.

Jazz Interpretations Of The Film Music Of Henry Mancini, Part 2

by Larry Slater
June 6, 2025

Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland to Italian immigrant parents. He is universally acknowledged as one of the great American film composers, and his melodies have long appealed to jazz artists. Mancini had an affinity for jazz. In the '50s and early '60s he led his ...

Michael Waldrop: Native Son

by Bill Milkowski
May 21, 2025

Following two successful big band projects--the swinging and swaggering Time Within Itself and Origin Suite--drummer-composer-bandleader Michael Waldrop has brought things down to a more intimate level on Native Son. In some ways a return to his first album as a leader, 2002's Triangularity, a sterling piano trio outing which he reissued in 2019, Native ...

Claire Cope: Every Journey

by Dan McClenaghan
April 28, 2025

Consider British pianist, composer/ bandleader Claire Cope. She debuted as a fully formed artist via her excellent septet set Small World (Self Produced, 2020), a deftly crafted classical/jazz hybrid. On her second recording, the album at hand, Every Journey, she employs an eleven-piece ensemble, building on the atmosphere of her debut, painting translucent layerings and weaving ...