Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

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 Group (ECM, 1978), Metheny's flagship group has evolved, sometimes in baby steps, other times in larger increments, culminating with the groove-happy We Live Here ...

Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live

by Doug Collette
April 15, 2008

Pat Metheny Group Imaginary Day: Live Eagle Eye Media 2008

A composite of three nights of performances from 1998, Imaginary Day Live reaffirms the ambition and skill of Pat Metheny, his long-time collaborator Lyle Mays and the varied talents of the Group of the time (including the cinematic skill of bassist Steve Rodby).

As with the similarly conceived and executed DVD of The Way Up, the technical expertise of the ...

Pat Metheny: Day Trip

by J Hunter
April 4, 2008

Although Pat Metheny gets top billing on Day Trip, this is not a one-off superstar meetup, a la 80/81 (ECM, 1980), Question and Answer (Geffen Records, 1990), and I Can See Your House from Here (Blue Note, 1993). Metheny has toured with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez, on and off, for the past few years; on Metheny's Web site, the group is called the Pat Metheny Trio. Nonesuch may have billed Day Trip the way it did, in order to ...

Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X: Twentieth Anniversary

by Chris May
March 31, 2008

Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman Song X: Twentieth Anniversary Nonesuch Records 2005 The untrammeled pleasure Pat Metheny has given this listener over the last couple of months with the freewheeling trio album Day Trip (Nonesuch Records, 2008) has prompted a trawl through the guitarist's back catalogue in search of another solid gold fix.

It's been a lot of fun--with the highlights including two other trio sets, Trio 99-00 (Warner Bros, 1999) and ...

Pat Metheny: Day Trip

by Francis Lo Kee
March 10, 2008

Pat Metheny's -Day Trip gets underway with the up-tempo “Son of Thirteen," bringing to mind the best of his playing, which combines the seemingly contradictory qualities of explosive virtuosity and tender lyricism. In his wheelhouse, the guitarist also knows how to feature the talents of collaborators (eg, Jaco Pastorius on Metheny's 1976 ECM debut as a leader, Bright Size Life) and it's clear from the first two tracks that bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez will contribute mightily to ...

Pat Metheny: Day Trip

by Doug Collette
February 2, 2008

Pat Metheny has not recorded with a trio for upwards of eight years, but Day Trip certainly makes the wait worth it. The simplicity of its approach will, no doubt, appeal to those fans of the guitarist who relish his primary virtues as an improvising instrumentalist. But it will no doubt foster revelations in Pat Metheny Group aficionados who can rediscover his core virtues.

Judging from the impeccable new disc, Metheny, along with comrades drummer Antonio Sanchez and Christian McBride, ...

Pat Metheny: Day Trip

by John Kelman
January 24, 2008

While the trio format isn't new to guitarist Pat Metheny, Day Trip does represent a number of firsts. And with only one minor quibble, if it's not the best trio record he's released since Bright Size Life (ECM, 1976), it's pretty darn close.

It's his first trio record to consist of all-original material. And, with the exception of the simmering waltz “When We Were Free," from Pat Metheny Group's Quartet (Nonesuch, 1996) and the rock/reggae-tinged “The ...