Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

When Pat Metheny Sits Down...

by Gregory J. Robb
October 21, 2003

When Pat Metheny sits before the audience at New York's Beacon Theatre, on November 14, he will start the concert by playing an instrument that the native of Lee's Summit, MO left alone until 2001: the baritone guitar.Pat Metheny changed gears again with his 2003 release of One Quiet Night (Warner Jazz). The album features rewritten old material, new songs and improvisations. It is a distinctly different record. One Quiet Night contains no overdubs, no arrangements, no orchestrations--nothing ...

Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night

by AAJ Staff
October 15, 2003

Are you seated? For the first time in recent memory, Pat Metheny's new album is not an epic journey through musical style. One Quiet Night gives us a rare insight into the simple explorations of the baritone guitar by one of jazz music's masters. Metheny may not do something this emotionally simplistic again for some time.

Pat Metheny characteristically wanted another change. After the debut of his new group line up for last year's Speaking of Now, Metheny ...

Pat Metheny Group: Speaking of Now

by AAJ Staff
August 25, 2003

Speaking of Now represents a new chapter of the Pat Metheny Group, maintaining the leader’s hold on his own sound while clearly testing the capabilities of his new lineup.

For the band’s eleventh studio record, Metheny has added a younger generation of players: Richard Bona, Cuong Vu and Antonio Sanchez – all from vastly different ethnic and musical cultures. The music within is fresh but Metheny treads carefully here while he and collaborators Lyle Mays and Steve Rodby cope with ...

Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night

by Eddie Becton
July 25, 2003

Pat Metheny, one of the most versatile guitarists of the day, demonstrates once again his penchant for harmonic richness, even minus a full band. This is another of Metheny's solo projects, the last being New Chautauqua, an underrated gem. One Quiet Night finds Metheny returning to his Lee's Summit, Missouri roots, where he was influenced by the likes of Miles Davis and a host of jazz and European classical musicians.

The title track begins quietly and then moves into a ...

Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night

by Farrell Lowe
June 25, 2003

A rich legacy of artists have found it in themselves to trust their inner voice enough to record profoundly intimate music and share it with the world. Bill Evans' Conversations With Myself, Anthony Braxton's For Alto, John McLaughlin's My Goals Beyond, Bill Frisell's Ghost Town, and Keith Jarrett's Spirits all come to mind in this context.

One Quiet Night is Pat Metheny's third contribution to that legacy. His first foray into solo ground came with his 1979 album New Chautauqua, ...

"One Quiet Night" with Pat Metheny

by Gregory J. Robb
April 19, 2003

The latest offering from contemporary jazz guitarist Pat Metheny will again put him front and center. Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night (released by Warner Jazz) will feature Metheny on baritone guitar.One Quiet Night is the result of Metheny's solo explorations in one evening of November, 2001. The native of Lee's Summit, Missouri set up a microphone in his home studio and began to play some of his favorite songs with what Metheny describes as a “Nashville" tune.

Pat Metheny Group: Speaking of Now

by Jeff Libman
March 1, 2002

Speaking of Now is burdened by following what may have been the Pat Metheny Group's most creative and exemplary album, Imaginary Day. For the first time in almost 20 years, there is a change in the band's core membership. Gone is Paul Wertico and his crystalline ride cymbal work, as integral to the Metheny sound as the guitarist's own round, ghostly tone. The versatile young Antonio Sanchez takes his place and performs admirably; he doesn't strive to redefine the band's ...