Pat Metheny is definitely my favorite jazz musician, probably my favorite any musician. I will try to make this topic the closest thing to his discography, uploading his solo albums, his many collaborations with various other jazz greats and, of course, his work with the Pat Metheny Group.
Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954 in Lee’s Summit, Missouri) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.
One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and ’80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-Bop, jazz-rock fusion, and folk-jazz.
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Pat Metheny Bright Size Life (1976)
Pat Metheny’s debut studio album is a good one, a trio date that finds him already laying down the distinctively cottony, slightly withdrawn tone and asymmetrical phrasing that would serve him well through most of the swerves in direction ahead. His original material, all of it lovely, bears the bracing air of his Midwestern upbringing, with titles like “Missouri Uncompromised,” “Midwestern Nights Dream,” and “Omaha Celebration.” There is also a sole harbinger of radical matters way down the road with the inclusion of a loose-jointed treatment of Ornette Coleman’s “Round Trip/Broadway Blues,” proving that Song X did not come from totally out of the blue. Besides the debut of Metheny, this CD also features one of the earliest recordings of Jaco Pastorius, a fully formed, well-matched contrapuntal force on electric bass, though content to leave the spotlight mostly to Metheny. Bob Moses, who like Metheny played in the Gary Burton Quintet at the time, is the drummer, and he can mix it up, too. (AMG)
Label: ECM
Recorded: Ludwigsburg, West Germany, December, 1975.
Released: 1976.
Time: 37.06
Personnel:
- Pat Metheny Bass, Guitar, Bass (Electric), Composer, Guitar (12 String), 6-String Bass, 12-String Bass Guitar, Guitar (12 String Electric)
- Bob Moses Drums, Drums (Snare)
- Jaco Pastorius Bass, Bass (Electric), Fretless Bass
Track listing:
1. Bright Size Life (Metheny) 4:45
2. Sirabhorn (Metheny) 5:29
3. Unity Village (Metheny) 3:40
4. Missouri Uncompromised (Metheny) 4:21
5. Midwestern Nights Dream (Metheny) 6:00
6. Unquity Road (Metheny) 3:35
7. Omaha Celebration (Metheny) 4:18
8. Round Trip/Broadway Blues (Coleman) 4:58
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