{"id":2976,"date":"2021-08-22T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2022-12-18T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:16:30","slug":"music-pat-metheny-group-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Pat Metheny Group, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As I said in an earlier but still very recent post, I\u2019ve been aware of Metheny since my mid to late teens. But it\u2019s only now, aged 49, that I\u2019m having an epiphany, as his music finally enters my heart. Perhaps I just hadn\u2019t heard the right stuff, or maybe I wasn\u2019t \u2018ready\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, just over the last week I\u2019ve been bathing in the goodness that is this album, and American Garage<\/em>, it\u2019s follow up, and New Chautauqua<\/em>. I already had Bright Size Life<\/em> (for quite some time), with Jaco and Bob Moses, but that\u2019s quite different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PMG<\/em>, American Garage<\/em> and New Chautauqua<\/em> are all 1978-9, and share a very particular vibe. A vibe I find I totally adore. There is not one duff track on all of these three albums. In fact, it\u2019s all amazing. Even individual pieces frequently contain an almost overwhelming range of mood and expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One reason the good ship Metheny hadn\u2019t docked in my heart till now was the fact I wasn\u2019t so keen on some of his later stuff, some of it with Mays, whose keys\/synths sounds weren\u2019t always to my tastes. I love that Mays favours piano a lot on this disc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I type this Lone Jack, the final track is playing. It\u2019s a blisteringly uptempo number, mixing jazz and a Latin samba-esque feel, but with flashes of jazz-rock, and even lighter more mellow interludes. As I said earlier, even with individual numbers the scope is astonishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casting my mind back, I could rhapsodise about every single track. It\u2019s all totally top drawer. Beautiful compositions, played by masters, and recorded with a crisp icily warm clarity. Opener San Lorenzo, like the final track is an embarrassment of riches. And sandwiched between these two monsters of musical drama and feeling, is naught but magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What an album. Ten stars wouldn\u2019t be enough. Can\u2019t recommended it highly enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I said in an earlier but still very recent post, I\u2019ve been aware of Metheny since my mid to late teens. But it\u2019s only now, aged 49, that I\u2019m having an epiphany, as his music finally enters my heart. Perhaps I just hadn\u2019t heard the right stuff, or maybe I wasn\u2019t \u2018ready\u2019? Anyway, just … <\/p>\n

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