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Pat Metheny: What's It All About
by Nenad Georgievski
Pat MethenyWhat's It All About Nonesuch Records2011 On first listen, this is an interesting record, on second, a great record, and on third and onward, What's It All About is an essential record. Recorded in the same manner as guitarist Pat Metheny's previous solo outing, One Quiet Night, (Nonesuch, 2003), Metheny sat one night with his acoustic guitars and made this wonderful offering.As a genre, jazz has always been both ...
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by John Kelman
Pat Metheny has released plenty of solo albums over the years, but One Quiet Night (Nonesuch, 2003) found him turning to a different modus operandi, imposing a series of restrictions: one guitar, one tuning, no overdubs. An intimate album of mostly original material, beyond three covers including Keith Jarrett's “My Song" and Gerry & the Pacemakers' hit, “Ferry Cross the Mersey," One Quiet Night was a more intimate and immediate alternative to his production-heavy Pat Metheny Group releases, and recent ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Binghamton University October 19, 2010
by CJ Shearn
Pat MethenyAnderson Center for the Performing Arts, Osterhout Theater, Binghamton UniversityBinghamton, New YorkOctober 19, 2010 Guitarist Pat Metheny's mastery of the intricacies of his Orchestrion was on dazzling display Tuesday evening, October 19, 2010, at the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts, Osterhout Theater, on the campus of Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. The concert was a homecoming of sorts, as the guitarist returned to the upstate New York town after a decade ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Montreal
by Pascal-Denis Lussier
Pat MethenyOrchestrion TourPlace des ArtsMontreal, CanadaOctober 12, 2010 Curiosity. More than anything else it was this that made guitarist/composer Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Tour concert at Montreal's Place des Arts complex (another stop on his successful 120-plus major-cities world tour) something to truly anticipate. I can't claim being a true Metheny fan, my leanings are more towards Bill Frisell, but, while Metheny's compositional style speaks far less to me than to ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project Live at The Flynn Burington VT
by Doug Collette
Pat MethenyFlynn Center for the Performing ArtsBurlington, VermontOctober 5, 2010 Pat Metheny as one-man band? As mad scientist? As master innovator/musician of the (not-so) new millennium? All those thoughts and perceptions came to mind during the two-plus hours the Missouri-born guitarist and composer turned the MainStage of the Flynn Center for The Performing Arts into a combination of laboratory and classroom.In all the years Metheny has appeared at the Flynn-eighteen times total as ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny, Orchestrion Tour in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
Pat Metheny Paramount Theater Denver, CO May 5, 2010
“Because it's there." That's the classic answer to the question of why climb the big mountain. That's pretty close to the explanation for Pat Metheny's current Orchestrion tour. He's taken the concept of the one-man-band to heights never dreamed of by buskers and carnival acts and built a giant musical machine with more instruments than The Music Man, Harold Hill, sold in his life. It ...
Continue ReadingPat Metheny: One Man's Band
by Tom Greenland
In plays such as Medea and Alcestis, the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides was roundly criticized, even parodied, for his use of an artificial plot device or deus ex machina ("god from the machine"), because it violated narrative logic and challenged the audience's suspension of disbelief. Guitarist Pat Metheny, never one to shy away from wrathful gods, has taken a bold step on his latest tour: eliminating his band in favor of a miraculous machine able to extend and expand his ...
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