Playing and working with artists as different as Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Joni Mitchell and David Bowie takes a fluid musical mind and a technique to match. Pat Metheny, the 67-year-old Missouri-born guitarist and composer, unveiled both back in 1976.
Metheny has long entertained a mainstream audience and often surprised an experimental one, written contemporary classical and movie music, lyrical songs sounding unjazzily like singles, and welcomed the provocations of gifted players much younger than him. From the latter impulse comes Side-Eye – a headlong reinvention of the popular 1960s Hammond organ/guitar/drums trio lineups pioneered by funky organists including Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff, on a repertoire of new Metheny music and old hits.
The album launches a 100-date world tour (the UK leg is at the Hammersmith Apollo on 12 June 2022). This is a 2019 live New York recording, juggling Metheny’s signature country-lilting lyricism, boppish swing, and some rousing rock-guitar muscle. On keys is the astonishing 26-year-old Houston-born jazz/R&B/hip-hop virtuoso James Francies (whose employers have ranged from saxophonist Chris Potter to Questlove), with the astutely powerful Marcus Gilmore on drums.
Two extended new compositions lay jangling, running-feet electronics under typically sensuous ballad motifs, or trumpet-like synth-guitar arias, bookending Metheny classics such as the dreamy Better Days Ahead (from 1989’s Letter from Home), a stunning Francies organ break of skid-turns, swirls and squeals on the percussively bluesy Timeline, and a shapely makeover of the leader’s 1976 debut tune Bright Size Life. But the most freely spontaneous playing boils up on Ornette Coleman’s irresistibly grooving Turnaround, to the rapturous roars of the New York crowd.
John Fordham
Fri 10 Sep 2021 08.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/10/pat-metheny-side-eye-nyc-v1iv-review
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Tocar y trabajar con artistas tan diferentes como Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Joni Mitchell y David Bowie requiere una mente musical fluida y una técnica a la altura. Pat Metheny, guitarrista y compositor nacido en Missouri de 67 años, dio a conocer ambos en 1976.
Metheny ha entretenido durante mucho tiempo a una audiencia convencional y, a menudo, ha sorprendido a una audiencia experimental, ha escrito música clásica y cinematográfica contemporánea, canciones líricas que suenan poco deslumbrantes como sencillos y ha acogido con beneplácito las provocaciones de jugadores talentosos mucho más jóvenes que él. De este último impulso surge Side-Eye – una reinvención descarada de las populares alineaciones de trío de órgano, guitarra y batería Hammond de la década de 1960, iniciadas por organistas funky como Jimmy Smith y Jack McDuff, en un repertorio de nueva música Metheny y viejos éxitos.
El álbum lanza una gira mundial de 100 fechas (la etapa del Reino Unido es en el Hammersmith Apollo el 12 de junio de 2022). Esta es una grabación en vivo de Nueva York de 2019, que hace malabares con el característico lirismo country de Metheny, el swing boppish y un poco de músculo de guitarra rockero. En las teclas está el asombroso virtuoso del jazz/R&B/hip-hop James Francies, de 26 años, nacido en Houston (cuyos empleadores han ido desde el saxofonista Chris Potter hasta Questlove), con el astutamente poderoso Marcus Gilmore a la batería.
Dos nuevas composiciones extendidas presentan una electrónica tintineante y de pies corriendo bajo motivos de baladas típicamente sensuales, o arias de sintetizador de trompeta, clásicos de Metheny como el soñador Better Days Ahead (de Letter from Home de 1989), una impresionante ruptura de órgano de Francia de giros, remolinos y chillidos en la Línea de Tiempo percusivamente blues, y un cambio de imagen bien formado de la melodía debut de Bright Size Life del líder en 1976. Pero la interpretación más espontánea y libre se reduce al irresistible cambio de rumbo de Ornette Coleman, ante los entusiastas rugidos de la multitud de Nueva York.
John Fordham
Vie 10 Sep 2021 08: 30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/10/pat-metheny-side-eye-nyc-v1iv-review
1 - It Starts When We Disappear
Composed By, Arranged By – Pat Metheny - 13:47
2 - Better Days Ahead
Arranged By – James Francies, Pat Metheny
Composed By – Pat Metheny - 5:26
3 - Timeline
Composed By, Arranged By – Pat Metheny - 7:12
4 - Bright Size Life
Composed By, Arranged By – Pat Metheny - 5:34
5 - Lodger
Composed By, Arranged By – Pat Metheny - 6:16
6 - Sirabhorn
Composed By, Arranged By – Pat Metheny - 5:07
7 - Turnaround
Arranged By – Pat Metheny
Composed By – Ornette Coleman - 7:42
8 - Zenith Blue
Composed By, Arranged By – Pat Metheny - 11:37
Credits:
Artwork, Design – Doyle Partners
Co-producer – Steve Rodby
Design [Tour Poster Design] – YoYoYosef
Drums – Marcus Gilmore
Engineer [Audio], Production Manager – Austin Stillwell
Executive-Producer – David Sholemson, Ted Kurland
Film Producer, Film Editor – Steve Rodby
Guitar, Bass Guitar [Guitar Bass], Synthesizer [Orchestrionic] - Lighting [Light], Technician [Drum Tech] – Taylor Aman
Organ, Piano, Synth – James Francies
Producer - Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Pete Karam
Technician [Guitars], Stage Manager – Carolyn Chrzan
Technician [Monitors] – Zack Rosenberg
Tour Manager – John Nave
Tour Manager [Assistant Tour Manager/Merchandising] – Robert "Robin" Levy
Recorded September 12 and 13, 2019 at Sony Hall NYC
Label: Modern Recordings – 538693922
Country: Europe
Released: Sep 10, 2021
Genre: Jazz
https://www.discogs.com/release/20182843-Pat-Metheny-Side-Eye-NYC-V1IV
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