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As an eclectic Jazz music lover, I own a variety of Jazz music from Miles Davis - to Spyro Gyra - to Mahavishnu Orchestra. I have put together what I consider my Top Twenty Jazz Songs of All Time. The Pat Metheny Group is listed twice on my list. I consider them to be the best Jazz-Fusion band today, period! I know that this could start a minor war (or at least a battle of opinions). I don't mind, that's what Jazz is all about - varying opinions based on how we interpret... MORE
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Pat Metheny Group's Letter from Home LP is one of my top 10 post-bop jazz albums, it's a great coast to coast listen that's perfect for cutting in the crib, reading, writing, studying or just staring out the window down onto the street-- don't let that last bit fool you though. Pat Metheny's one of the world's best guitarists and he plays a wide variety of axes on his tunes...the highlights on this particular set begin when the first chords are dropped on "Have You Heard" ... MORE
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Here's the first track from Pat Metheny Group's 1989 release, "Letter From Home." Driving to work isn't as much fun as driving into the weekend after work. So, take that country road into Friday evening and Saturday morning.
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Great music to listen to if you've been driving yourself crazy all day try to peg notes beats waves crashes and cracks swells and stops into a techno mishmash.
I.e. when you want to escape the machines you turn to these living musicians: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Jaco Pastorious and Dan Gottlieb.
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I've been wanting to get to posting some Pat Metheny. As well as being a fantastic jazz guitarist with a distinctive mellow tone and liquid smooth technique, Metheny has also created his own signature synth guitar sound that's just spine tingling sometimes, as on the title track from the album "We Live Here". This is a gem. Enjoy.
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OK, this is really my last post before bed, and it's something completely different. In 1981, Pat Metheny Group released "Offramp", which was a quantum leap creatively for the artist. The highlight track is "Are You Going With Me?", which is basically samba beat, and Metheny just goes off. He was using a Roland guitar synthesizer during this period, which was interesting because Andy Summers (The Police) Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and Adrian Belew (Talking Heads, King Cri... MORE
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Part one of Pat Metheny's "The Way Up" followed by "Africa" by The Meters is very cool. Metheny's composition sets up this amazing, dramatic introduction and hangs you off the edge of a cliff, and then The Meters and their firey, New Orleans funky groove kicked in without any silence and it worked PERFECTLY. A rare moment in random music listening, if you know what I mean.
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...from the whistle-while-working dept: I've posted about Pat Metheny Group's Letter from Home LP before but another of his great sets can be found on Still Life (Talking) ...if you've never seen him live and you're down with the guit-fiddle, shame on you becaue Metheny's a monster when he's fingering the fret board...Pat's played with Ornette Coleman in the past but I've often wondered what would've happened if he and Hendrix could've gotten into a little "Third Stone fro... MORE
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I finally got this DVD after work yesterday after months and months of waiting for it and it was definitely worth the wait! If y'all want to see one of the best modern jazz artists in his prime in a band in their prime, this is THE DVD to get. Not only is the entire composition "The Way Up" played live straight through, but there's a 20 minute interview with Pat himself talking about the writing, recording, and performing of the composition, along with his thoughts on th... MORE
