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Patrick Bruce Metheny (/məˈθiːni/ mə-THEE-nee) nacido el 12 de agosto de 1954, es un guitarrista y compositor estadounidense de jazz.
Es el líder del Pat Metheny Group y también está involucrado en dúos, trabajos en solitario y otros proyectos paralelos. Su estilo incorpora elementos de jazz progresivo y contemporáneo, jazz latino y jazzfussion. Metheny tiene tres álbumes de oro y 20 premios Grammy y es la única persona en haber ganado Grammys en 10 categorías. Es hermano del intérprete de fiscorno de jazz Mike Metheny.
Metheny nació en Lee's Summit, Missouri. Su padre Dave tocaba trompeta, su madre Lois cantó y su abuelo materno, Delmar, era trompetista profesional. El primer instrumento de Metheny fue la trompeta, con su hermano Mike. Éste junto con el padre y el abuelo tocaban tríos juntos en casa. Sus padres eran fans de Glenn Miller y la música swing. Llevaban a Metheny a los conciertos para escuchar a Clark Terry y Doc Severinsen, pero tenían poco respeto por la guitarra. El interés de Metheny por la guitarra aumentó sobre 1964 cuando vio a los Beatles actuar en televisión. Para su cumpleaños número 12, sus padres le permitieron comprar una guitarra, una Gibson ES-140 3/4.
La vida de Metheny cambió después de escuchar el álbum Four & More de Miles Davis. Poco después, fue cautivado por el álbum de Wes Montgomery, Smokin' at the Half Note, lanzado en 1965. Pat cita que The Beatles, Miles Davis y Wes Montgomery son la mayor influencia en su música.
A los 15 años, ganó una beca de la revista Down Beat para un campamento de jazz de una semana donde fue guiado por el guitarrista Attila Zoller, quien luego invitó a Metheny a Nueva York para ver al guitarrista Jim Hall y al bajista Ron Carter.
Mientras tocaba en un club en Kansas City, Bill Lee, un decano de la Universidad de Miami, se acercó a él y le ofreció una beca. Después de menos de una semana en la universidad, Metheny se dio cuenta de que tocar la guitarra todo el día durante su adolescencia lo había dejado sin estar preparado para las clases. Admitió esto a Lee, quien le ofreció un trabajo para enseñar, ya que la escuela había introducido recientemente la guitarra eléctrica como curso de estudio.
Se mudó a Boston para enseñar en el Berklee College of Music con el vibrafonista de jazz Gary Burton y estableció una sólida reputación como prodigio de la guitarra. [. . .]
Pat Metheny - 1978 - New Chautauqua
Recording Date August, 1978
Recording Location
Talent Studio, Oslo, Norway
Release Date April, 1979
Créditos
Electric Guitar [6 And 12 String Guitars], Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [15 String Harp Guitar], Electric Bass and Composed By – Pat Metheny
Engineer – Jan Erik Kongshaug
Photography By [Cover Photo], Design – Dieter Rehm
Photography By [Photo] – Joji Sawa
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Listado de Temas:
todos compuestos por Pat Metheny
01 - New Chautauqua - 05:19 min.
02 - Country Poem - 02:35 min.
03 - Fallen Star Long-Ago Child - 10:20 min.
04 - Hermitage - 05:40 min.
05 - Sueño Con Mexico - 05:59 min.
06 - Daybreak - 08:39 min.
6 Temas. Tiempo Total: 00:38:32
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1. 06a - Daybreak Trckd.01 - 02:05 min.
2. 06b - Daybreak Trckd.02 - 02:06 min.
3. 06c - Daybreak Trckd.03 - 04:27 min.
3 Temas. Tiempo Total: 00:08:38
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AllMusic Review
by Thom Jurek
When Pat Metheny's New Chautauqua first appeared in 1979, it was his third album for ECM, and was greeted mainly on the strength of its title track, a euphoric, uptempo, multi-layered guitar and bass folk dance. His previous two outings for the label, Bright Size Life and Watercolors, showcased him in the company of other musicians: on the former with Bob Moses and Jaco Pastorius, on the latter with Lyle Mays, Danny Gottlieb, and Eberhard Weber. They'd both received critical acclaim and sold well in college towns across the United States and Europe.
But this volume was his first true solo recording in that he played all the guitars and basses on the set. As wonderfully indicative of Metheny's signature as this title cut was, the rest of the date was a complete shock to fans. It's very sparse, spacious, and quietly contemplative. Produced by Manfred Eicher, New Chautauqua was, at the time, far more indicative of ECM's sound than it was the guitarist's. In 21st century retrospect, this first impression proves to be a mistake. Reconsidering the album upon its re-release in 2008 as part of the label's budget Touchstone series, it sounds more an extension of Metheny's complex, wide-ranging musical personality than anything else. His great debt to guitarists from Jim Hall to Pat Martino on the title cut and on "Daybreak," the closer, is balanced only by his impressionistic melodic sensibility that is informed as much by Paul Bley and Jimmy Giuffre ("Long Ago Child/Fallen Star") and latter day-John Lennon and Paul McCartney ("Hermitage") as it is by his mentor, Gary Burton ("Sueno con Mexico"). This is a very gentle and contemplative recording, but there is so much happening in the weave of six-, 12- and 15-string harp guitars and basses, it's easy to let it slip by in a dreamy reverie.
If any of Metheny's early recordings deserves reconsideration, a real argument can be made for the skeletal, yet utterly beautiful New Chautauqua.
Pat Metheny Group - 1979 - American Garage
Reseña
_________________________by Fito._______________
Patrick Bruce Metheny, nacido en Lee's Summit, Missouri, Estados Unidos, empezó a tocar la guitarra desde muy niño, y fue todo un prodigio, tanto es así, que a los quince años estaba trabajando con los mejores músicos de jazz en Kansas City.
Pat Metheny llegó a ser profesor de la Berklee College of Music (una de las escuelas de música con más prestigio de todo el mundo) dando clases a alumnos como Mike Stern o Al DiMeola. Allí conoce a Gary Burton y se incorpora a su banda durante 3 años, mostrando ya su peculiar forma de tocar: moderna aunque conectando con el jazz más tradicional, swing o blues.
En 1975, sacó su primer álbum instrumental,
“Bright Size Life”, con el genial Jaco Pastorius al bajo sin trastes, reinventando el tradicional sonido de guitarra de jazz. Un año más tarde conoce a
Lyle Mays con quien, tras grabar el disco
Watercolors en 1977, y la presencia del bajista
Steve Robdy, se fundaría el
Pat Metheny Group. Este trió sería la base de las distintas formaciones del grupo a lo largo de su extensa carrera.
American Garage (1979) es el segundo disco de la PMG, y supuso una revolución para la época, con ese sonido tan personal de la guitarra de Metheny, complejo y atrapante a la vez, junto al contraste del bajo sin trastes, a los que se les une el aporte, sin ser predominante, de la percusión y el teclado: Había nacido el sonido del Pat Metheny Group, una fusión distinta a todas las del momento, en las que las armonías e improvisaciones fluyen con naturalidad, absorbiendo elementos de todas las épocas anteriores de la música moderna.
En
American Garage,
a
Pat Metheny (Guitarra, Guitarra de 12 cuerdas y Guitarra Bajo) y
Lyle Mays (Piano, Teclados, Órgano, Oberheim, Autoharp) les acompañan
Mark Egan al bajo y
Dan Gottlieb a la batería.
_________________________by Fito._______________
Duration 35:21
Genre Jazz - Styles Crossover Jazz
Fusion, Contemporary Jazz, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument
Recorded At – Long View Farm Studios
Lacquer Cut At – PRS Hannover
Engineer – Kent Nebergall
Engineer [Assistant] – Jesse Henderson
Executive-Producer – Manfred Eicher
Photography By – Rob Van Petten
Photography By [Cover] – Joel Meyerowitz
Production Manager [Thanks For Help] – Richard Niles
Notas
Recorded June 1979 at Longview Farm Recording Studio, NO. Brookfield, Mass.
Release Date November 1, 1979
Créditos
Bass – Mark Egan
Drums – Dan Gottlieb
Guitar [6 & 12-string Guitars], Producer, Composed By – Pat Metheny
Keyboards, Composed By – Lyle Mays
Design – Basil Pao
Listado de Temas:
01 - (Cross The) Heartland - 06:55 min.
Autor: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays
02 - Airstream - 06:20 min.
Autor: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays
03 - The Search - 04:55 min.
Autor: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays
04 - American Garage - 04:13 min.
Autor: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays
05 - The Epic - 12:59 min.
Autor: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays
5 Temas. Tiempo Total: 00:35:22
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Reseña
AllMusic Review
by Richard S. Ginell
The back liner photo gives the impression of a grungy Midwestern garage band, but no, that doesn't describe this sophisticated jazz-rock quartet, which was simultaneously breaking into mass-market acceptance and away from the contemplative ECM stereotype. The arrangements are more structured, the playing often more intense and searching, with a more pronounced rock influence. On the title track, Metheny digs in and displays some authoritative rock-oriented licks and intensity, and the rhythms on "The Search" have a slight, at times asymmetrical Latin feeling. The nearly 13-minute "The Epic" finds the Metheny group developing some real combustion in the improvised sections as Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb grow tighter as a unit. In hindsight, some of the music seems a bit too tightly conceived to allow adequate breathing room, but this is still high-quality jazz-rock for its time.
Pat Metheny Group 1981 Offramp
Recorded October 1981 at Power Station, New York
Mixed at Talent Studio, Oslo
Créditos
Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Steve Rodby
Drums – Danny Gottlieb
Piano, Synthesizer, Autoharp, Organ, Synthesizer [Synclavier] – Lyle MaysGuitar, Synthesizer [Guitar Synthesizer, Synclavier Guitar] – Pat Metheny
Percussion, Voice, Berimbau –
Nana Vasconcelos
Artwork [Cover Graphic] – Gerd Winner
Design – Dieter RehmEngineer – Jan Erik Kongshaug (tracks: A1 to B1, B3, B4)
Engineer [Assistant] – Barry Bongiovi
Engineer [Mix] – Jan Erik Kongshaug
Photography By [Liner Photos] – Deborah Feingold
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Listado de Temas:
01 - Barcarole - 03:18 min.
Written-By – Mays, Vasconcelos, Metheny
02 - Are You Going With Me? - 08:51 min.
Written-By – Mays, Metheny
03 - Au Lait - 08:31 min.
Written-By – Mays, Metheny
04 - Eighteen - 05:10 min.
Written-By – Mays, Vasconcelos, Metheny
05 - Offramp - 05:59 min.
Engineer – Gragg Lunsford
Written-By – Mays, Metheny
06 - James - 06:46 min.
Written-By – Mays, Metheny
07 - The Bat, Part 2 - 03:50 min.
Written-By – Mays, Metheny
7 Temas - Tiempo Total: 00:42:25
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Reseñas:
Pat Metheny Group – Offramp
Sello: ECM Records – ECM 1216, ECM Records – 2301 216
Formato: Vinyl, LP, Album
País: Germany Fecha: 1982
Género: Electronic, Jazz Estilo: Fusion, Contemporary Jazz
AllMusic Review
by Alex Henderson
If 1980's As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls was defined by Pat Metheny's charisma, its less accessible but certainly rewarding successor, Offramp, finds him leaning more toward the abstract. But as cerebral as Metheny gets on such atmospheric pieces as "Are You Going with Me?" and "Au Lait," his playing remains decidedly lyrical and melodic. Clearly influenced by Jim Hall, the thoughtful Metheny makes excellent use of space, choosing his notes wisely and reminding listeners that, while he has heavy-duty chops, he's not one to beat everybody over the head with them. Even when he picks up the tempo for the difficult and angular title song, he shuns empty musical acrobatics. Throughout the CD, Metheny enjoys a powerful rapport with keyboardist Lyle Mays, who also avoids exploiting his technique and opts for meaningful storytelling.
AllMusic User Reviews
Feckpyg MacOwlarse - March 2, 2017
I'll just mention 1 track..Are You Going With Me..? I'm absolutely enamoured with this piece of music. It makes me feel more relaxed and comfortable when I listen to it than any other piece of music I have ever heard in my life.. that's all I have to say. Well apart from the other tracks which are equally blissful.. it can put one into a wonderful deep sleep better than Temazepam.... Ivor M Kemp.
Pat Metheny Group 1983 Travels
(2 Lp's - 2 Cd’s)
Notas
Recorded in July, October, November 1982
Recordings taken from concerts in Dallas (TX), Philadelphia (PA), Sacramento (CA) and Nacogdoches (TX)
Entire album mixed at Talent Studio, Oslo
Personnel:
Double Bass [Acoustic Bass], Electric Bass, Synthesizer [Bass] – Steve Rodby
Drums – Dan Gottlieb
Guest [Special], Percussion, Voice, Berimbau – Naná Vasconcelos
Guitar, Guitar Synthesizer – Pat Metheny
Piano, Synthesizer, Organ, Autoharp, Synthesizer [Synclavier] – Lyle Mays
Producer – Manfred Eicher, Pat Metheny
Listado de Temas:
Composed By – Lyle Mays (tracks: A1, B1, B2, C2-2, D1, D3), Pat Metheny
Cd 1
Lp 1 Side A
101 - Are You Going With Me? - 09:18 min.
102 - The Fields, The Sky - 07:47 min.
103 - Goodbye - 08:16 min.
Lp 1 Side B
104 - Phase Dance - 08:03 min.
105 - Straight On Red - 07:26 min.
106 - Farmer's Trust - 06:25 min.
Cd 2
Lp 2 Side A
201 - Extradition - 05:42 min.
202 - Goin' Ahead + As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - 16:20 min.
Lp 2 Side B
203 - Travels - 05:03 min.
204 - Song For Bilbao - 08:26 min.
205 - San Lorenzo - 13:36 min.
2 Cd’s, 11 Temas - Tiempo Total: 01:36:22
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Reseña
Sello: ECM Records – ECM 1252/53, ECM Records – 810622-1
Formato: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold, 2 x Cd
País: Germany Fecha: 02 May 1983
Género: Jazz Estilo: Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Phonographic Copyright (p) – ECM Records GmbH
Mixed At – Talent Studio
Lacquer Cut At – PRS Hannover
Published By – Pat-Meth Music Corp.
Published By – Lyle Mays Inc.
AllMusic Review
by Richard S. Ginell
Now well into its gliding Brazilian-tinged mode, the Pat Metheny Group hits the road, as this two-CD set catches the band live in Dallas, Philadelphia, Hartford, Sacramento, and Nacogdoches, TX. Percussionist Naná Vasconcelos is still listed as a "special guest," but ever since Wichita Falls, he had not only been a part of the group, he was the transforming element in the Metheny "sound," adding his various shakers, effects and ethereal vocals. Sidekick Lyle Mays gets deeper into floating, glistening synthesizer textures, but he is still able to take formidable and touching solos on acoustic grand piano. Still experimenting with new hardware, Metheny's work on a detuned guitar synthesizer gives the live "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" an exotic Balinese-like sound. Other highlights are the hard Brazilian grooves on "Straight On Red" and "Song for Bilbao," as well as the trademark Metheny glide of "Are You Going With Me?" -- and the brief title track has a winning, guileless simplicity much like that of Keith Jarrett in a prayerful mood. If you liked the popular Offramp, you'll fall for Travels, too, but get the former album first.
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