Last week on Saturdaynight April 2nd I went to see Jaga Jazzist, a band from Norway. Had a great night with a great performance. I probably going to buy their latest album "One-Armed Bandit". Before the concert I only saw one YouTube video of this album, so I didn't know much of the other work on the album, but based on the earlier work from previous albums and previous concerts I visited I knew I wouldn't be disappointed. And I was right.
If you asked me to describe the music of Jaga Jazzist I think you can't mention one particular music style or musical influence. Their music has elements of jazz, big band, classical music, electronic music, minimal music and prog rock. The bandmembers often mentions bands like Talk Talk, Soft machine as one of their influences. If you listen to some of the songs from their last album you also can add Frank Zappa, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass to that list.
If you listen to the title song of this album you can probably understand why I added Frank Zappa to the list of musical influences. Some parts reminds me about 'Peaches and Regalia' from Zappa's "Hot Rats"-album and then especially the brass parts from the Saturday Night Live version.
And if you listen to the song 'Tocatta' of their latest album and which was the opening of Jaga Jazzist's concert you can understand why I added Steve Reich and Phikip Glass to the list of musical influences.
But Jaga Jazzist are certainly not clones of the mentioned artists. They mix all these influences into their own unique eclectic music style.
I found three videos on You Tube from the concert at Tivoli, Utrecht. I've embedded them so you can get a bit of an impression. They also played one of my personal favourites 'Oslo Skyline' as an encore. I couldn't find a video from the Tivoli performance of this song, so I've embedded a video from an earlier performance about 4 years ago. I especially like the massive part with the brass section at 2min34.
Enjoy the videos!
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Monday, 11 April 2011
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Concerts over the past year (part 2)
I'll just continue with the concerts where I finished in my post of November 8th last.
Last May I went to Andy McKee with a friend who is also into guitarmusic. I'll wrote about Andy McKee before in a post on him and some other artists from record label CandyRat Records. It was the first time to see Andy McKee live and it sure was a treat to see him play live. Of course I already knew from his YouTube videos that he's an amazing guitar player, which was just confirmed by this live performance. It was just one man, one guitar and an audience. If you're good it's all you need. I enjoyed every minute of this concert. It was really great to see such a gifted player at work.
Eight days after Andy McKee my wife N. and I went to the SJU-huis, the local jazz club in our hometown to see Michiel Borstlap, a Dutch jazz pianist, who also gets foreign recognition and worked with great names in jazz like Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Bruford, George Duke and guitar legend Les Paul. He played work from his last gorgeous CD SOLO 2010, with, like the title suggests, solo work on the piano, mostly composed/improvised by Michiel Borstlap himself. I really like this album and the past months it's been played on my CD player and computer on a regular basis. Recommended! An excellent piano player and composer/improvisator and worthwhile a visit when he's touring near you.
A few weeks later on June 10th N. and I went to see Them Crooked Vultures, with Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana and frontman from the Foo Fighters, Josh Homme, founder of Kyuss and also founder member and frontman of his current band Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones, bass player of the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin. It was pretty loud, but certainly not bad, but quite different from the introspective music from Michiel Borstlap.
Nine days later N. and I went to Muse. It was on the same day that Holland had to play against Japan at the world cup football in South Africa. When we booked the tickets for Muse we didn't realize the concert and the football match were on the same day. Although I'm not so fanatic about football anymore but when Holland is joining the worldcup I like to watch. And because my wife N. is Japanese, you can imagine why we would like to watch the game. Lucky enough the game was in the afternoon, so we manage to watch the game first and then took the train to Nijmegen where the concert was. It wasn't an easy game for Holland but they beat Japan 1-0 and it didn't cause a matrimonial crisis.
It was the first time for us to see Muse live. The Muse concert was quite a spectacle with a huge stage and big light show and also the sound was very good. Sometimes the sound on open air concerts can be a disaster but at the Muse concert the sound quality was much better than I expected. They gave a great show and they proved to be an excellent live band. The weather gods were kindly disposed to us, despite the bad weather forecast.
Below I uploaded
Last May I went to Andy McKee with a friend who is also into guitarmusic. I'll wrote about Andy McKee before in a post on him and some other artists from record label CandyRat Records. It was the first time to see Andy McKee live and it sure was a treat to see him play live. Of course I already knew from his YouTube videos that he's an amazing guitar player, which was just confirmed by this live performance. It was just one man, one guitar and an audience. If you're good it's all you need. I enjoyed every minute of this concert. It was really great to see such a gifted player at work.
Eight days after Andy McKee my wife N. and I went to the SJU-huis, the local jazz club in our hometown to see Michiel Borstlap, a Dutch jazz pianist, who also gets foreign recognition and worked with great names in jazz like Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Bruford, George Duke and guitar legend Les Paul. He played work from his last gorgeous CD SOLO 2010, with, like the title suggests, solo work on the piano, mostly composed/improvised by Michiel Borstlap himself. I really like this album and the past months it's been played on my CD player and computer on a regular basis. Recommended! An excellent piano player and composer/improvisator and worthwhile a visit when he's touring near you.
A few weeks later on June 10th N. and I went to see Them Crooked Vultures, with Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana and frontman from the Foo Fighters, Josh Homme, founder of Kyuss and also founder member and frontman of his current band Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones, bass player of the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin. It was pretty loud, but certainly not bad, but quite different from the introspective music from Michiel Borstlap.
Nine days later N. and I went to Muse. It was on the same day that Holland had to play against Japan at the world cup football in South Africa. When we booked the tickets for Muse we didn't realize the concert and the football match were on the same day. Although I'm not so fanatic about football anymore but when Holland is joining the worldcup I like to watch. And because my wife N. is Japanese, you can imagine why we would like to watch the game. Lucky enough the game was in the afternoon, so we manage to watch the game first and then took the train to Nijmegen where the concert was. It wasn't an easy game for Holland but they beat Japan 1-0 and it didn't cause a matrimonial crisis.
It was the first time for us to see Muse live. The Muse concert was quite a spectacle with a huge stage and big light show and also the sound was very good. Sometimes the sound on open air concerts can be a disaster but at the Muse concert the sound quality was much better than I expected. They gave a great show and they proved to be an excellent live band. The weather gods were kindly disposed to us, despite the bad weather forecast.
Below I uploaded
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
North Sea Jazz
A little bit late, but here are some videos which I found on YouTube with (parts of) performances that my wife N. and I saw at North Sea Jazz Festival 2009. I already posted some pics which I took at the festval on my photoweblog BrownNoisePhotos here, here and here.
I don't have the time to give extended reviews about the perfromances that we saw, but you must believe that we had a nice day and that we saw some great perfromances. Hopefully you can agree after seeing some of the videos that I've embedded.
You can see some video's from Akiko Yano & Hiromi Uehara, The John Scofield Piety Street band and from Michiel Borstlap, Han Bennink & Ernst Glerum. From Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock there is enough material on YouTube but nothing from their performance at North Sea Jazz. Herbie Hancock also did a very nice solo improvisation on his own composition Dolphin Dance from his classic album "Maiden Voyage", but unfortunately no material from this on YouTube.
Well I'm going to leave you with some video's. I hope you will enjoy!
I don't have the time to give extended reviews about the perfromances that we saw, but you must believe that we had a nice day and that we saw some great perfromances. Hopefully you can agree after seeing some of the videos that I've embedded.
You can see some video's from Akiko Yano & Hiromi Uehara, The John Scofield Piety Street band and from Michiel Borstlap, Han Bennink & Ernst Glerum. From Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock there is enough material on YouTube but nothing from their performance at North Sea Jazz. Herbie Hancock also did a very nice solo improvisation on his own composition Dolphin Dance from his classic album "Maiden Voyage", but unfortunately no material from this on YouTube.
Well I'm going to leave you with some video's. I hope you will enjoy!
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
R.I.P. Jeff Healey
I just heard that just a few weeks before the release of a new album Jeff Healey died at the age of 41 from the effects of a rare form of cancer, called retinoblastoma, which he fought his entire life. He lost his eyesight from the disease at the age of one. For the general public he was known as a blues-rock guitarist with his typical style of playing the guitar flat on his lap, but in a smaller circle he was also acknowledged as jazz musician. Besides the guitar he also played trumpet and clarinet and played in a jazz formation called the Jazz Wizards who played vintage jazz from the 1920s and 1930s.
It's a shame most of the good musicians die young. May he rest in peace. And if there is a Rock Walhalla I hope and I'm pretty sure he will be jamming with George Harrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix.
I've added three videos from Jeff Healey. In the first one he's performing George Harrison's "While my guitar gently weeps"
The second one is a live performance with former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan playing Deep Purple's "When a blind man cries"
And finally a performance with his jazz formation the Jazz Wizards in which you can see a less known Jeff Healey playing the trumpet.
Unfortunately with the last video embedding was disabled so you have to check it at You Tube at the following link.
Official website of Jeff Healey
Monday, 12 November 2007
Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia
I didn't post for a bit longer than I expected. It's about time to create a new post. I haven't done any new musical discoveries recently, so I'll post something about an artist who, despite the fact that I don't appreciate all of his music/recordings, I admire very much: Frank Zappa, the late multi talented artist who unfortunately died in 1993 of prostate cancer.
One of the reasons why I find him an interesting artist is the fact that he was an original and independent artist who considered artistic freedom as a supreme good. He was also a strong advocate for the freedom of speech and strongly opposed any form of censorship. (See for example Frank Zappa's appearence in 1986 on the discussion programme Crossfire and fore some more examples look here, here and here).
He also had a nose for excellent musicians. When a musician could put on their resume that they played with Frank Zappa most of the time it was a 100% guarantee for an interesting and often succesful career with other bands or as solo artists or session musician. It's a huge list, so I'm not going to mention all the musicians, but I'm going to mention a few. Drummers like Aynsley Dunbar (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Starship...), Chester Thompson (Weather Report, Genesis, Phil Collins...), Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons, UK, KoRn...), Vinnie Colaiuta (Joni Mitchell, Barbara Streisand, Chaka Khan, Quincy Jones...), Chad Wackerman (Allan Holdsworth, Dweezil Zappa, Steve Vai, Andy Summers...), guitarists like Steve Vai (Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake), Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Talking Heads, Nine Inch Nails...), Warren Cuccurullo (Missing Persons, Duran Duran), Lowell George (Little Feat), keyboard/violin player Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music, UK, Jethro Tull), keyboardplayer/pianist George Duke (Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, George Clinton, Steps Ahead...) and the list goes on and on.
But I was busy on a posting about Frank Zappa. The main reason for creating a post about Zappa was this video I ran into on YouTube. It was a performance of the instrumental piece "Peaches en Regalia" shot in 1976 at Saturday Night Live, the famous since October 1975 running tv-show. The music piece comes from the album Hot Rats, which came out in 1969. It was one of the first 16 track so-called multitrack recordings, a way of soundrecording wich give the possibility to make seperate recording of multiple sound sources to create. a coherent total sound. About the technique behind it you can check the URL.
What I like about "Peaches en Regalia" (the live version more than the album-version) is that it's a good mixture of musical elements from classical music, big band, jazz and rock. The hornsection is great and I also like the unisono guitar and violin solo by Frank Zappa and Eddie Jobson at 01:04 of the video. The music piece has strong melodylines, which, although maybe complex, easily stuck in your mind. Some might disagree about the melody easily stucking in your mind, but that's what this performance did with me. But what more can I say. Just check the video and enjoy. If you're not familiair with Zappa's work it hopefully might interest you to check some other work of him. He was and is an interesting, extremely talented self-willed artist.
One of the reasons why I find him an interesting artist is the fact that he was an original and independent artist who considered artistic freedom as a supreme good. He was also a strong advocate for the freedom of speech and strongly opposed any form of censorship. (See for example Frank Zappa's appearence in 1986 on the discussion programme Crossfire and fore some more examples look here, here and here).
He also had a nose for excellent musicians. When a musician could put on their resume that they played with Frank Zappa most of the time it was a 100% guarantee for an interesting and often succesful career with other bands or as solo artists or session musician. It's a huge list, so I'm not going to mention all the musicians, but I'm going to mention a few. Drummers like Aynsley Dunbar (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Starship...), Chester Thompson (Weather Report, Genesis, Phil Collins...), Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons, UK, KoRn...), Vinnie Colaiuta (Joni Mitchell, Barbara Streisand, Chaka Khan, Quincy Jones...), Chad Wackerman (Allan Holdsworth, Dweezil Zappa, Steve Vai, Andy Summers...), guitarists like Steve Vai (Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake), Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Talking Heads, Nine Inch Nails...), Warren Cuccurullo (Missing Persons, Duran Duran), Lowell George (Little Feat), keyboard/violin player Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music, UK, Jethro Tull), keyboardplayer/pianist George Duke (Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, George Clinton, Steps Ahead...) and the list goes on and on.
But I was busy on a posting about Frank Zappa. The main reason for creating a post about Zappa was this video I ran into on YouTube. It was a performance of the instrumental piece "Peaches en Regalia" shot in 1976 at Saturday Night Live, the famous since October 1975 running tv-show. The music piece comes from the album Hot Rats, which came out in 1969. It was one of the first 16 track so-called multitrack recordings, a way of soundrecording wich give the possibility to make seperate recording of multiple sound sources to create. a coherent total sound. About the technique behind it you can check the URL.
What I like about "Peaches en Regalia" (the live version more than the album-version) is that it's a good mixture of musical elements from classical music, big band, jazz and rock. The hornsection is great and I also like the unisono guitar and violin solo by Frank Zappa and Eddie Jobson at 01:04 of the video. The music piece has strong melodylines, which, although maybe complex, easily stuck in your mind. Some might disagree about the melody easily stucking in your mind, but that's what this performance did with me. But what more can I say. Just check the video and enjoy. If you're not familiair with Zappa's work it hopefully might interest you to check some other work of him. He was and is an interesting, extremely talented self-willed artist.
Sunday, 16 September 2007
The Police, Amsterdam Arena 13 Sept. 2007
It took more than a month to create a new posting. For many reasons I couldn't find the time and energy to post on my weblog. Also on my photoweblog I'm a little behind with posting pictures. Anyway the past week gave me a good reason to make some time to post something.
Last Thursdaynight my wife N. and yours truly went to a concert of The Police at the Amsterdam Arena, footballstadium and home of the footballteam of Ajax. It was the first of total two concerts of The Police in the Netherlands.
When we heard the announcement that The Police was going to give a concert my wife N. said she would like to go, if we could manage to get tickets. The presales already started in March this year. I was lucky to get through during the online sales and we got two tickets for last Thursday. Because the first concert was sold out within one hour an extra concert was organised one day later on September 14th.
To be honest I was a little sceptical beforehand. Reunion tours in general are often disappointing and are in some cases only done for financial reasons (I guess and hope not in this case). I never saw The Police live before, so I didn't had any reference material. I was 12 years old when they had their first hit in the Netherlands at the end of 1978 with "So Lonely". I was an instant fan and I bought their first album Outlandos d'Amour on LP. I liked their style of rockmusic influenced by reggae, jazz and punk which I think you could hear best on their first album and their second album (Regatta de Blanc).
Another reason why I had doubts was the fact that, although I never had been to the Amsterdam Arena before to experience it myself I heard from several people that the sound in the stadium didn't had a good reputation.
Short after the start of the concert it was clear that my doubts and scepticism were not justified. The sound was good and we had a great night. It was a huge ride through memory lane and they played all their major big hits.
Despite security and body search we manage to get my wife's camera into the stadium and I manage to take a few pictures. It wasn't easy to make steady shots between a jumping and waving crowd, but some pics came out quite okay. We were standing pretty close to the stage somewhere around the third or fourth row a little left from the middle.
Below are a few pics that I shot and some video's that I found on YouTube from the same concert. The first video was made by my wife. She recorded with the camera in front of the television an item on the news the next morning about The Police. The video- and soundquality on the other videos isn't great, but it gives you a bit of an idea of the atmosphere. The second video shows the opening of the concert with "Message in a Bottle". The third shows "Roxanne" and the fourth shows my personal favorite song "King of Pain". The last video gives a bit of an overall impression of the concert. Hope you like it!
Last Thursdaynight my wife N. and yours truly went to a concert of The Police at the Amsterdam Arena, footballstadium and home of the footballteam of Ajax. It was the first of total two concerts of The Police in the Netherlands.
When we heard the announcement that The Police was going to give a concert my wife N. said she would like to go, if we could manage to get tickets. The presales already started in March this year. I was lucky to get through during the online sales and we got two tickets for last Thursday. Because the first concert was sold out within one hour an extra concert was organised one day later on September 14th.
To be honest I was a little sceptical beforehand. Reunion tours in general are often disappointing and are in some cases only done for financial reasons (I guess and hope not in this case). I never saw The Police live before, so I didn't had any reference material. I was 12 years old when they had their first hit in the Netherlands at the end of 1978 with "So Lonely". I was an instant fan and I bought their first album Outlandos d'Amour on LP. I liked their style of rockmusic influenced by reggae, jazz and punk which I think you could hear best on their first album and their second album (Regatta de Blanc).
Another reason why I had doubts was the fact that, although I never had been to the Amsterdam Arena before to experience it myself I heard from several people that the sound in the stadium didn't had a good reputation.
Short after the start of the concert it was clear that my doubts and scepticism were not justified. The sound was good and we had a great night. It was a huge ride through memory lane and they played all their major big hits.
Despite security and body search we manage to get my wife's camera into the stadium and I manage to take a few pictures. It wasn't easy to make steady shots between a jumping and waving crowd, but some pics came out quite okay. We were standing pretty close to the stage somewhere around the third or fourth row a little left from the middle.
Below are a few pics that I shot and some video's that I found on YouTube from the same concert. The first video was made by my wife. She recorded with the camera in front of the television an item on the news the next morning about The Police. The video- and soundquality on the other videos isn't great, but it gives you a bit of an idea of the atmosphere. The second video shows the opening of the concert with "Message in a Bottle". The third shows "Roxanne" and the fourth shows my personal favorite song "King of Pain". The last video gives a bit of an overall impression of the concert. Hope you like it!
The PoliceSunday, 8 July 2007
Pat Metheny again
About two months ago I made a post about Pat Metheny. I also embedded a video from YouTube with Pat Metheny playing a special Pikasso harp guitar. I used the video to support my post about Pat Metheny, how I got in touch with his music etc..
I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that the video I attached at this post is no longer available, due to a copyright claim by Pat Metheny. I checked YouTube but there s not a real alternative video from Pat Metheny playing his Pikasso Guitar, only a short 37 second video, but I can't consider that as a real alternative. It's a bit strange, because there are still loads of other Pat Metheny videos out there on YouTube and I'm pretty sure that the copyright with these videos haven't been settled properly either.
Although maybe an interesting issue, this post is not meant to be to start a discussion about copyrightproblems with videomaterial on YouTube, I just wanted to notify my visitors. The only thing that I would like to say about posting videomaterial from artists is that as long as it's done by a fan to show his or her admiration for an artist or group without any commercial purposes then I don't see much trouble with it. The artist or group in question also can see it as free publicity. But sharklawyers might see this a bit different.
Too bad that the original video is removed. Right now I'm not in the mood to rewrite my first Pat Metheny-post, but I guess I will do that some other time after I find another proper video to go with the post.
I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that the video I attached at this post is no longer available, due to a copyright claim by Pat Metheny. I checked YouTube but there s not a real alternative video from Pat Metheny playing his Pikasso Guitar, only a short 37 second video, but I can't consider that as a real alternative. It's a bit strange, because there are still loads of other Pat Metheny videos out there on YouTube and I'm pretty sure that the copyright with these videos haven't been settled properly either.
Although maybe an interesting issue, this post is not meant to be to start a discussion about copyrightproblems with videomaterial on YouTube, I just wanted to notify my visitors. The only thing that I would like to say about posting videomaterial from artists is that as long as it's done by a fan to show his or her admiration for an artist or group without any commercial purposes then I don't see much trouble with it. The artist or group in question also can see it as free publicity. But sharklawyers might see this a bit different.
Too bad that the original video is removed. Right now I'm not in the mood to rewrite my first Pat Metheny-post, but I guess I will do that some other time after I find another proper video to go with the post.
Pat MethenySunday, 1 July 2007
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (Live at Utrecht)
Last Night N., two friends and also former roommates and yours truly went to a concert of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, a ten men formation from Tokyo (what a surprise), Japan. For those who are not familiair with their music you can describe their music as Madness meets The Pogues with a bit of punk-, jazz-, soul-, funk-, bigband- and even sometimes klezmerinfluences added to the overall mixture, creating a live performance that turns every musicevent into a partying, jumping and dancing whole.
N. and I saw the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra for the first time two years ago in 2005 at the Parkpop Festival, a free music festival at The Hague, which is always held at the last Sunday of June every year. Although they were playing early in the afternoon at the Parkpop Festival, they got the whole crowd jumping and dancing, including me and that's quite an achievement if you know that I'm not a big dancinglover. They have a great and very energetic live performance and they also proved that last night.
We had a wonderful and fun time last night N. and I manage to made a few pictures and I shot two videos that I uploaded at YouTube. I have embedded the videos in this posting. You'll find them together with some pictures below. The videos were shot with a compact digital photocamera, so the video- and sound quality is not extremely high, but good enough to get an impression of the live performance and the atmosphere. Because there was not enough light and because of the jumping and dancing crowd it was difficult to get sharp pictures, so some of the pics are a bit moved sometimes.
TSPO is touring through Europe now. You can check their schedule on their website (see below). If they are coming near you and you are in the mood for a great night with fun- and partymusic then don't hesitate and go. You won't regret it.
I also made a posting about the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra at my photoblog at BrownNoisePhotos.
Enjoy the videos!
They also do a great version of the thememusic from "The Godfather". They also played it last night, but this video was shot (not by me) in August 2006 at another concert of the TSPO in Barcelona.
Official website of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
N. and I saw the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra for the first time two years ago in 2005 at the Parkpop Festival, a free music festival at The Hague, which is always held at the last Sunday of June every year. Although they were playing early in the afternoon at the Parkpop Festival, they got the whole crowd jumping and dancing, including me and that's quite an achievement if you know that I'm not a big dancinglover. They have a great and very energetic live performance and they also proved that last night.
We had a wonderful and fun time last night N. and I manage to made a few pictures and I shot two videos that I uploaded at YouTube. I have embedded the videos in this posting. You'll find them together with some pictures below. The videos were shot with a compact digital photocamera, so the video- and sound quality is not extremely high, but good enough to get an impression of the live performance and the atmosphere. Because there was not enough light and because of the jumping and dancing crowd it was difficult to get sharp pictures, so some of the pics are a bit moved sometimes.
TSPO is touring through Europe now. You can check their schedule on their website (see below). If they are coming near you and you are in the mood for a great night with fun- and partymusic then don't hesitate and go. You won't regret it.
I also made a posting about the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra at my photoblog at BrownNoisePhotos.
Enjoy the videos!
They also do a great version of the thememusic from "The Godfather". They also played it last night, but this video was shot (not by me) in August 2006 at another concert of the TSPO in Barcelona.
Official website of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Ska
Tokyo Ska Paradise OrchestraSunday, 6 May 2007
Pat Metheny with harp guitar
This time a video from Pat Metheny where he plays an unusual and original instrument, the Pikasso harp guitar, a 42-string guitar.
I got in touch with Pat Metheny for the first time about 24 years ago when I was about 17 years old. I got interested through a review in a musiciansmagazine from his live album Travels. I saw the record (for the younger people among us, the gramophone record was the analogue sound recording medium before the compact disc) in the music store, listened a few songs, bought it and got hooked. I saw him live once in the late 80's or early 90's and that concert is still in my top-10 all time favorite liveconcerts. A few years ago I've replaced my vinyl version of Travels by a CD-version.
I've always liked and still like Pat Metheny for his lyrical and melodic style of guitarplaying. Although considered as a jazz guitarist, he also uses elements from folk-, pop- and rockmusic. He collaborated with many great musicians from both the jazz- as the pop world, like bass player Jaco Pastorius, David Bowie, the late saxophoneplayer Michael Brecker, Joni Mitchell, Gary Burton, piano player Chick Corea, drummer Jack Dejohnette and many, many more.
I especially want to mention the Pat-Metheny album Bright Size Life on which he plays with Jaco Pastorius. The album was released in 1976 and was made in a trio-setting of guitar, bass and drums. Metheny's guitarplaying matches perfectly with Pastorius' virtuoso bass playing. I like this album a lot and still play it every now and then.
Here is the URL to Pat Metheny's official website.
There is a lot of nice and interesting material you can find on YouTube.
Anyway, enjoy this video!
I got in touch with Pat Metheny for the first time about 24 years ago when I was about 17 years old. I got interested through a review in a musiciansmagazine from his live album Travels. I saw the record (for the younger people among us, the gramophone record was the analogue sound recording medium before the compact disc) in the music store, listened a few songs, bought it and got hooked. I saw him live once in the late 80's or early 90's and that concert is still in my top-10 all time favorite liveconcerts. A few years ago I've replaced my vinyl version of Travels by a CD-version.
I've always liked and still like Pat Metheny for his lyrical and melodic style of guitarplaying. Although considered as a jazz guitarist, he also uses elements from folk-, pop- and rockmusic. He collaborated with many great musicians from both the jazz- as the pop world, like bass player Jaco Pastorius, David Bowie, the late saxophoneplayer Michael Brecker, Joni Mitchell, Gary Burton, piano player Chick Corea, drummer Jack Dejohnette and many, many more.
I especially want to mention the Pat-Metheny album Bright Size Life on which he plays with Jaco Pastorius. The album was released in 1976 and was made in a trio-setting of guitar, bass and drums. Metheny's guitarplaying matches perfectly with Pastorius' virtuoso bass playing. I like this album a lot and still play it every now and then.
Here is the URL to Pat Metheny's official website.
There is a lot of nice and interesting material you can find on YouTube.
Anyway, enjoy this video!
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