(there's a funny thing in that Jazz Ear book from a few years back where Metheny says something like "b-minor, the saddest of all keys." and all the metheny heads started discussing this comment seriously, but of course, pat is paraphrasing from spinal tap, haha.)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp Bright Sized Life seems like a good entry point.Has his collab with Steve Reich not been mentionned? Pretty amazing stuff
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Do you mean Electric Counterpoint?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't think you can go wrong with pretty much any of the records Pat Metheny did for ECM. I think when he got obsessed with Brazilian music and started using tons of strings on some of the later records on Geffen, usually on Pat Metheny Group albums, I didn't like it as much. That said, if you find a record where he is in a group with a bunch of other jazz ringers with big reps, he always holds his own.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp - yeah sorry that's the one
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cool, it's great. I just wondered if they'd done something new together. I always thought about EC as just Metheny performing Reich's composition tbh -- and it is -- but his contribution on the original recording is pretty and substantial, considering he had to record and layer every one of those 13 parts. Have you listened to the other recordings of the piece? I'd like to check out Tannenbaum's.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ugh, "is pretty substantial"! I suppose it is pretty and substantial too though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
OMG Wichita Falls!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 November 2010 03:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
sick
― lag∞n, Sunday, 11 March 2012 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
offramp is the shit!
― coal, Saturday, 15 December 2012 20:57 (5 months ago) Permalink