Pat Metheny - Jazz Guitar Sketches (live) '2025

Tracks list

	Tracklist:

1. Bright Size Life (live) (05:51)
2. River Quay (live) (06:48)
3. Watercolors (live) (07:11)
4. Icefire (live) (04:40)
5. Phase Dancer (live) (08:43)
6. San Lorenzo (live) (10:37)
7. Wrong Is Right (live) (06:19)
8. Unity Village (live) (07:31)
9. Midwestern Nights Dream (live) (08:50)
10. Jaco (live) (04:31)
11. James (live) (07:27)
12. The Magician's Theater (live) (09:52)
13. American Garage (live) (04:01)
14. The First Circle (live) (08:31)
15. Are You Going with Me (live) (09:01)
16. Minuano (live) (09:14)
17. Third Wind (live) (09:43)
18. (It's Just) Talk (live) (06:20)
19. Straight on Red (live) (08:26)
20. Yolanda You Learn (live) (08:42)


 moreBorn in 1954, Metheny is from Lee's Summit, Missouri (his older brother is
the trumpeter Mike Metheny) and he initially played trumpet. After coming under
the sway of the Beatles in 1964, he eventually moved over to guitar when he was
12. His talent developed quickly. He taught at both the University of Miami and
Berklee while he was a teenager and made his recording debut with Paul Bley and
Jaco Pastorius in 1974. He spent an important period (1974 to 1977) with Gary
Burton's group, met keyboardist Lyle Mays, and in 1978 formed his own group,
which originally featured Mays, bassist Mark Egan, and drummer Dan Gottlieb.
Within a short time, he was ECM's top artist and one of the most popular of all
jazzmen, selling out stadiums. Metheny mostly avoided playing predictable music,
and his freelance projects were always quite interesting. His 1980 album 80/81
featured Dewey Redman and Mike Brecker in a post-bop quintet; he teamed up with
Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins on a trio date in 1983; and two years later he
recorded the very outside Song X with Ornette Coleman. Metheny's other projects
away from the group have included a sideman role with Sonny Rollins, a 1990 tour
with Herbie Hancock in a quartet, a trio album with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes,
and a collaboration with Joshua Redman.

Although his 1994 recording Zero Tolerance for Silence baffled his audience with
its completely experimental approach to noise and feedback, Metheny retained his
popularity as a consistently creative performer. In 1994, he made his Blue Note
debut with John Scofield on I Can See Your House from Here, and followed it up
the next year with the Pat Metheny Group's We Live Here, 1996's Quartet for
Geffen, and the score for the film Passaggio Per Il Paradiso. In 1997, he and
Charlie Haden cut the acoustic duo album Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short
Stories), before the guitarist signed to Warner Bros. and released Imaginary
Day. In 1999, the duet set Jim Hall & Pat Metheny was issued as a one-off for
Telarc, while Metheny's score and soundtrack for A Map of the World appeared on
Warner Bros.

Metheny has remained intensely active in the 21st century, releasing Speaking of
Now in 2002, the acoustic solo album One Quiet Night in 2003, the PMG's Way Up
in 2005, and Metheny Mehldau in 2006. Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau returned
to the studio the following year for Quartet. Metheny released the trio album
Day Trip in 2008. Orchestrion -- which featured him solo playing several
acoustic instruments designed and built for him by Eric Singer -- appeared from
Nonesuch early in 2010. He released What's It All About in June 2011, his second
solo acoustic guitar recording for the label. Unlike any other entry in his
large catalog, the set is entirely comprised of covers of pop songs by
contemporary songwriters (from Paul Simon and Lennon and McCartney to Antonio
Carlos Jobim, Burt Bacharach, and Hal David) that have held meaning for him
throughout his career. Metheny released Unity Band with saxophonist Chris
Potter, drummer Antonio Sanchez, and bassist Ben Williams in June 2012. In
August, the promised live The Orchestrion Project was released; it was a CD and
DVD document of the one-man tour with the symphonic machine from 2010 to 2011.

In the spring of 2013, Metheny recorded the work of composer John Zorn on Tap:
John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20 on the Tzadik (owned by the composer) and
Nonesuch labels simultaneously. Metheny's Unity Group continued to tour, and in
2013 they reentered the studio. Kin <-->, their second offering, was released in
February 2014.

In January 2015, Metheny was part of a tribute to bassist Eberhard Weber, who
suffered a debilitating stroke in 2007 and has not performed since. The evening
featured works written and inspired by the bassist, played by various groupings
of musicians and the SWR Big Band. Co-billed to the guitarist, saxophonist Jan
Garbarek, and vibraphonist Gary Burton, it was released on ECM as Hommage a
Eberhard Weber in September. Metheny then delivered the live album Unity
Sessions and paired with trumpeter Cuong Vu for 2016's Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat
Metheny. Almost immediately afterward, Metheny assembled a quartet with Sanchez,
Malaysian/Australian bassist Linda May Han Oh, and pianist Gwilym Simcock. This
group toured the globe for two years before making their recorded debut with
From This Place in February 2020. In addition to the quartet, it included
contributions from the Hollywood Studio Symphony conducted by Joel McNeely,
vocalist Meshell Ndegeocello, Swiss harmonicist Grégoire Maret, and Cuban
percussionist Luis Conte.

In 2020, Metheny changed labels for the first time in more than two decades,
ending his long-standing tenure with WEA/Nonesuch. He signed to BMG's Modern
Recordings, a label launched in 2020 to reimagine jazz and classical music for
the streaming age, by issuing brave, original collaborative works that featured
classical and jazz talent from across the globe. Metheny's label debut, Road to
the Sun, issued in March 2021, marked the first time one of his recordings
focused solely on the artist as a composer -- he barely played on it. He wrote
the four-movement guitar sonata "Four Paths of Light" specifically for classical
guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux. The album's six-movement title suite was penned
for and performed by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. In September, Metheny
issued the Grammy-nominated album Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV). A live trio outing, it
included keyboardist James Francies and drummer Marcus Gilmore. The record was
the first in a proposed series of releases showcasing the guitarist offering new
and reworked vintage material in trio settings with different -- often younger
-- rhythm sections.

Over the decades, Metheny informally recorded ideas and stored them on a hard
drive. In 2022, he played 160 concerts internationally and relished the travel
as "free time." Between destinations and in his hotel at night, he listened to
the recordings and was quite surprised by what they contained. He eventually
made his way through the entire trove and heard the hard drive's contents
emerging as a coherent whole. He'd never played any of the initial tracks more
than once -- he considered them moments in time -- and most he doesn't remember.
The assembled compilation of these recordings was titled Dream Box and released
in 2023 by Modern Recordings. Dream Box received a nomination for Best Jazz
Instrumental Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

While on tour, playing solo acoustic guitar for more than two hours, nightly,
Metheny began reflecting on the differences between each of his solo guitar
offerings from New Chattaqua on. He contacted luthier Linda Manzer, a longtime
collaborator, and requested she build him an acoustic baritone guitar that could
be played with nylon, rather than steel strings. He wanted to use a unique
tuning shown to him by a neighbor when he was a kid in Missouri. Next, he search
out nylon strings that wouldn't snap or sound like a banjo under the tuning. A
company in Argentina met his needs. After stringing the guitar, Metheny had a
revelatory moment. He used the guitar increasingly on the Dream Box tour.

During his first break, Metheny took the instrument into the recording studio,
wanting to capture its sound fresh and relive some of the magic it delivered
onstage. He recorded new tunes, written specifically for the instrument,
revisited music from his discography, ad cut several covers of standards, a folk
song, and a Beatles song. He released the album as MoonDial on Modern Recordings
in July 2024. © Thom Jurek



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