Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

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 existing fan base, through promises of radically improved sonics and, in some cases, the inclusion of previously unreleased tracks. But with the volume ...

Pat Metheny Trio + 1

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 18, 2005

Pat Metheny Trio + 1 Hill Auditorium (University of Michigan) October 8, 2005

Not letting any grass grow under his feet, Pat Metheny wasted no time after wrapping up a tour in support of the group album The Way Up before hitting the road again with his trio. First getting together with bassist Christian McBride and regular drummer Antonio Sanchez in 2003, Metheny has reunited with these master musicians in addition to saxophonist David Sanchez for ...

Pat Metheny Trio+1: First Stop Seattle

by Ryan Burns
October 13, 2005

Pat Metheny Trio+1 September 7, 2005 Jazz Alley Seattle, WASeptember 7-9, Jazz Alley hosted the first stop of Pat Metheny's current Trio+1 tour. Playing for the first time at Seattle's longest running jazz club (3rd internationally), Metheny performed six sold-out shows along with band members Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez, and David Sanchez. I caught the second set of the first night of performances.SOLOThe evening started with Metheny finger-picking solo guitar to ...

Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X: Twentieth Anniversary

by AAJ Staff
September 16, 2005

Metheny fans who hadn't already caught the clues on 80/81 (ECM, 1980) or Rejoicing (ECM, 1984) were in for an electric shock when they hit play on the original Song X back in 1986... and more than a few copies immediately landed in resale bins as a result. The truth, not exactly a mystery--but still a surprise to those who considered Metheny a marshmallow man at heart--is that the guitarist has always been tied into the music of Ornette Coleman. ...

Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X: Twentieth Anniversary

by John Kelman
August 9, 2005

Back in 1985 when Pat Metheny released Song X, his collaboration with free jazz/harmolodics progenitor Ornette Coleman, it came as a big shock to fans familiar with the more overt melodicism of the Pat Metheny Group. Sure, there'd been hints that Metheny's seemingly insatiable appetite to experience all things musical also included excursions into free territory, including albums like 80/81, Offramp, and Rejoicing. But in those cases the free tracks were one-offs--and surrounded by his more lyrical material, which was ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 6, July 5, 2005

by John Kelman
July 7, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 There's always a unique vibe to the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, but this year the excitement is even greater. In the festival's early days, guitar legend Pat Metheny was a constant fixture at the festival, appearing with his own projects, collaborating with others, ...

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 minutes to over 25, builds upon its predecessor and paints a colorful mural of the group's mission.

“Opening" is classic Metheny, i.e., acoustic, passionate, ...