Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Legendary jazz bassist, Jaco Pastorious was born on this date in 1951. Jaco sadly died a premature death at the tender age of 35 in 1987. Considered by many to be the most innovative bassist in the jazz fusion movement of the 1970’s, playing with Mahavishnu Orchestra and breaking out with a solo album in [...]
Visualgui.com (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
After getting through thirteen live recordings of Pat Metheny Trio, I could see how Metheny had the audacity to savaged Kenny G’s style as: “lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing.” He has the virtuosity to back up his statement. With Larry Grenadler on acoustic bass and Bill Stewart on drums [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
It's not just Justin Monsen's knowledge of modern jazz guitar referenced in the touchstone sounds of Wes Montgomery and Pat Metheny, it's also what the young guitarist articulates in terms of melody and composition, which helps to make All That Is Solid Melts Into Air an enjoyable release. Born in Japan, with geographical ties from Connecticut to Oslo, Norway, Monsen currently lives and gigs in New...
The Late Greats (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Need some incredible instrumental jazz? “Swing” over to Amazon . They are giving away a FREE ECM sampler, which artists like Bill Frissell, Pat Metheny and Jan Garbarek (to name a few). The track below is a slow vibe number, as beautiful as an autumnal sunset. Listen: Gary Burton Quintet ∞ Dreams So Real More: Instrumentals Use some of you 50 FREE Downloads from eMusic to get more instrumentals.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
This interview first appeared in Lloyd Peterson's Music And The Creative Spirit (Scarecrow Press, 2006) There may not be another contemporary composer whose music better reflects the time in which we live, yet remains so misunderstood. Imitators may have watered, and smoothed down his rich, complex and innovative art form, but the creative genius of Pat Metheny lies deep beneath the surface, a place...
Notes From The UndergroundBastard (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Bonus: (occasional Metheny partner) Ulf Wakenius takes Charlie Parker into metal territory:
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Jim Peterik - Grammy¨ winning singer, songwriter and guitar/keyboardist - has unveiled his first smooth jazz project, Jim Peterik's Lifeforce. As the founding member of both Survivor and The Ides Of March, he has been responsible for eighteen Top 10...
Verve music group (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
" In its leaning on folk pop, its open-hearted romanticism, and its disregard for orthodoxy, the Fellowship’s music is the freshest jazz sound since Pat Metheny blew in from Missouri 30 years ago..." » thephoenix.com
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Jazz as defined by Answers.com: A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom. Tracing the origins of jazz by RedHotJazz: Tracing the origins of Jazz in the formative years (1895-1917) is not [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
An oddity this one, even within the variegated discography of Pat Metheny. It features the guitarist alongside Polish singer Anna Maria Jopek and a group of mostly Polish musicians, recorded in Warsaw during 2002. Half the set features lyricised and re-titled versions of Metheny compositions, sung in Polish; the other half are originals composed in the main by Jopek and her husband, Marcin Kydrynski,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
As Nonesuch's remaster/reissue program of guitarist Pat Metheny's Geffen-era discography draws to a close, one of the best discs from that period, Question and Answer, finally sounds the way it should, revealing itself to be deserving of even greater accolades than it received when first released in 1990...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium will present jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and his trio at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in Opstad Auditorium of City High School in Iowa City. This Hancher Auditorium event was moved to City High after the University of Iowa facility was closed indefinitely as a result of the June flood...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Pianist Paul Bley started his concert 10 minutes early at International House on Saturday night. After a few percussive chords, he started railing about how the piano was out of tune even though a tuned Steinway had been delivered the day before, per his contract. Then he reminded listeners how he had trained at Juilliard before walking stiffly off stage.
The Garlic (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
No the title is not some late-breaking poll news, it's the title of a tune and album of the great Pat Metheny , and just a metaphor for a round-up of the sinking Dead Campaign Express . It be getting ugly over there. In-fighting, back-stabbing, every-man-for-themselves-type vibe going on, with short tempers, and more conspiracies than who shot J.R. , growing by the day. There was one, juicy spat the...
Ben Witherington (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Pat's newest CD is with a bunch of Polish musicians who have serious chops. Check out these two live concert samples and see what you think. If you want the lyrics they are translated on the CD liner notes. Oh yes, and the female lead singer is Anna Maria Jopek and as you will see--- she can bring it. The project evolved from a request by Anna Maria for Pat to allow her to provide some original transcriptions...
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
As a distantly Bill Frisell-like player who has kept company with class acts like pianists Paul Bley, Uri Caine and Matthew Shipp, as well as Polish trumpet star Tomasz Stanko, Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary is entitled to a bigger reputation. This trio set finds him with Pat Metheny's remarkable Vietnamese trumpeter Cuong Vu, and the Tim Berne percussionist Tom Rainey, on a set of pieces dedicated
