Starting to enjoy Pat Metheny
Posted by: garyi on 27 August 2004
Well its taken a few years and I still feel a bit of it is cheesy but been playing through some recently acquired stuff and its not bad!
Posted on: 27 August 2004 by sjust
which would be ?
Best regards, freundliche Grüße
Stefan
Best regards, freundliche Grüße
Stefan
Posted on: 27 August 2004 by Not For Me
Gary,
So, from, post-rock to post-bop crossover jazz ?
I am also a big fan of Pat Metheny, and have a lot of the decent albums, even the difficult guitar mangling one "Xero Tolerance for Silence" (contractual obligation style album)
My favoutite track is probably "Are you going with me?" off "Off Ramp"
Which style do you prefer?
DS
OTT - Ricky Gervais - Animals
*** All the views expressed within this e-mail are the sole responsibility of DS, and as such are manifestly correct. ***
So, from, post-rock to post-bop crossover jazz ?
I am also a big fan of Pat Metheny, and have a lot of the decent albums, even the difficult guitar mangling one "Xero Tolerance for Silence" (contractual obligation style album)
My favoutite track is probably "Are you going with me?" off "Off Ramp"
Which style do you prefer?
DS
OTT - Ricky Gervais - Animals
*** All the views expressed within this e-mail are the sole responsibility of DS, and as such are manifestly correct. ***
Posted on: 27 August 2004 by Minky
Have a listen to "I can see your house from here" with John Scofield.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005GWE/104-3444702-4259903?v=glance
Cheesy it ain't.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005GWE/104-3444702-4259903?v=glance
Cheesy it ain't.
Posted on: 28 August 2004 by BigH47
Tried a PM cd from the library I can't remember the title it lasted about 15 secs of each track. Those amazon samples were better so I might try again.
Howard
Howard
Posted on: 29 August 2004 by Mike Hanson
I used to really like PMG, and I've got a whole whack of the albums, but I suddenly stopped listening to them a while back. I think their stuff become too recognizable/predictable for me. (This occurred, coincidentally, a few months before seeing them live. Sonically they sounded pretty much the "same" live as on record, and the concert moved me in much the same way as the albums, so I can't say that the live experience changed my perception of the band.)
I think that once I deconstruct someone's formula (especially someone who initially seems so complex as PMG), then I need to see some type of change/evolution to retain my interest, and that didn't happen.
"Imaginary Day" was my favorite PMG album, perhaps because I discovered it first. Now I prefer his collaboration with Jim Hall better than all the PMG stuff. I still occasionally listen to a PMG album, but behind all of those odd chord progressions, time signatures, etc., it all starts sounding like smarmy smooth jazz.
-=> Mike Hanson <=-
[This message was edited by Mike Hanson on Sun 29 August 2004 at 10:44.]
I think that once I deconstruct someone's formula (especially someone who initially seems so complex as PMG), then I need to see some type of change/evolution to retain my interest, and that didn't happen.
"Imaginary Day" was my favorite PMG album, perhaps because I discovered it first. Now I prefer his collaboration with Jim Hall better than all the PMG stuff. I still occasionally listen to a PMG album, but behind all of those odd chord progressions, time signatures, etc., it all starts sounding like smarmy smooth jazz.
-=> Mike Hanson <=-
[This message was edited by Mike Hanson on Sun 29 August 2004 at 10:44.]
Posted on: 02 September 2004 by Colin Lorenson
The best PM is the old PM.
His first albums on ECM - self titled, Water Colours, Bright Size Life, New Chattaqua(?), are classics and well worth investing in.
Colin Lorenson
I'm just feeling that way. I don't know why.
His first albums on ECM - self titled, Water Colours, Bright Size Life, New Chattaqua(?), are classics and well worth investing in.
Colin Lorenson
I'm just feeling that way. I don't know why.
Posted on: 03 September 2004 by roger poll
The album called 80/81 with Charlie Haden,
Jack Dejohnette, Dewey Redman and Mike Brecker, on ECM, is well worth a listen.
Roger.
Jack Dejohnette, Dewey Redman and Mike Brecker, on ECM, is well worth a listen.
Roger.
Posted on: 03 September 2004 by garyi
Sorry to upset the contributors but I have upgraded my itital impression to cheesy jazz twidlings.
I had a listen to all of the albums I aquired and well they are cheese and all sound the same.
Its always a shame when a whole album is built around one instrument in the way his are. A bit like Joe Satriani.
Thankfully Zappa, who clearly was a far superior guitarist usually managed to avoid this trap by having shit hot players with him.
Ah well.
I had a listen to all of the albums I aquired and well they are cheese and all sound the same.
Its always a shame when a whole album is built around one instrument in the way his are. A bit like Joe Satriani.
Thankfully Zappa, who clearly was a far superior guitarist usually managed to avoid this trap by having shit hot players with him.
Ah well.