Klarinet Archive - Posting 000319.txt from 2000/06
From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Pat Metheny
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:24:09 -0400
>>Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:39:57 -0400
>From: Tom Wood <n4cid@-----.net>
>Subject: Re: [kl] Pat Metheny interview regarding Kenny G.
>
>Who is Pat Metheny?
Below is the information at one website from Downbeat Magazine. Metheny is
a widely known, well-established musician.
Biography
At a time when many felt jazz was lacking in marquee
names, fusion guitarist Pat Metheny received a
widespread crossover audience and the respect of
several jazz notables.
Metheny was born on Aug. 12, 1954, in Lee's Summit,
Mo. Along with absorbing surrounding country, r&b, and
rock & roll idioms, he developed an appreciation for
such jazz musicians as Wes Montgomery. A guitar
prodigy, Metheny taught at the University of Miami and
Berklee School of Music when he was in his teens. Gary
Burton recruited Metheny for his band in 1974 and he
played on the keyboardist's ECM records until he
formed his own group three years later. Along with
Wisconsin keyboardist Lyle Mays, Metheny's band
featured compositions that were influenced from an
array of sources while the writing established a
springboard for the musicians' own expansive melodic
improvisational techniques. Metheny includes a 12-string
electric, and Roland guitar synthesizer, as well as
standard electric and acoustic guitars in his repertoire.
He has collaborated with Paul Bley, Sonny Rollins, Julius
Hemphill, Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette. In 1985,
Ornette Coleman appeared on Metheny's Song X.
When Metheny wrote his own autobiographical profile in
the February 1998 Down Beat, he said, "The best
musicians I know, and the ones whom I admire and
seem to listen to the most, are capable of hearing deep
into the musical moment and responding quickly and
with meaning to give that moment an immediacy that
represents the spirit of the time they are living in."
Recommended recordings: Travels (ECM 1252/3);
Song X (Geffen 924096).
Aaron Cohen
The same site lists the following:
Discography
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny
1999
Like Minds
1998
Across The Sky ( B/W Roots Of Coincidence) (EP)
1998
Passaggio Per Il Paradison (Import-Ita)
1997
Sign of Four
1997
Imaginary Day
1997
Quartet
1996
Passaggio Per Il Paradiso
1996
1980-1981
1994
Watercolours
1994
I Can See Your House from Here
1994
Works I
1994
Works II
1994
As Wichita Falls So Falls Wichita
1994
We Live Here
1994
Zero Tolerance for Silence
1994
The Road To You
1993
Secret Story
1992
Question and Answer
1990
Letter From Home
1989
ECM Works II
1988
Still Life (Talking)
1987
Song X
1986
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
ECM Works
1984
First Circle
1984
Rejoicing
1984
Travels
1983
Offramp
1982
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
1981
'80/'81
1980
American Garage
1979
New Chautauqua
1979
Pat Metheny Group
1978
Watercolors
1977
Bright Size Life
1975
Across the Sky
An Hour with Pat Metheny
Are You Going with Me
Au Lait
Blue Asphalt [bootleg]
Flower Hour [live] [bootleg]
Group We Live Here
In Her Family
Last Train Home
Live
Live at the Breccon Jazz Festival [bootleg]
Live at Tros-Sesjun (The Netherlands) [bootleg]
Live on Tour
Pat Metheny Live in Seattle (11/09/81) [bootleg]
Road to You-Live in Europe
Salt Lake [bootleg]
The Bat
The Pat Metheny Group in Concert [live] [bootleg]
Under Fire
Other stuff of interest:
Web Articles
Monterey Announces 2000 Jazz Fest Lineup
04/07/2000
The 43rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 15-17,
will feature more than 500 artists over the course of the
weekend, several of whom will be in configurations
unique to the festival. One Monterey exclusive will be a
pairing of the Pat Metheny trio with Michael Brecker.
Another exclusive will be a pairing of saxophonist Wayne
Shorter and the 20-piece Monterey Jazz Festival
Chamber Orchestra, a collaboration that will premiere a
new work commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Metheny Schedules Tour
02/01/2000
Guitarist Pat Metheny will hit the road in March in support
of his new trio album, Trio '99->'00, set for a Feb. 8
release on Warner Bros.
New Metheny Album Due In February
12/30/1999
Pat Metheny will delve into the intimate setting of a jazz
trio for his Feb. 8, 2000, release, Trio 99->'00 (Warner
Bros.), his 26th album as a leader. For the album, the
guitarist enlists the services of bassist Larry Grenadier
and drummer Bill Stewart, while he plays both acoustic
and electric guitar.
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