[Harp-L] Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up (Review)

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I have put up a review of Pat Metheny's The Way Up with chromatic player 
Grégoire Maret on my weblog. Here's the first few paragraphs to whet your 
appetite : 

"I?m not a usual customer of Pat Metheny?s stuff. I?ve heard some of his 
records, and I recognise him as a talented and tasteful jazz guitarist, but 
nothing I heard really blew me away. Additionally, I?m in a phase in my 
musical explorations when I?m interested in structure over improvisation. 
That?s not to say that I don?t enjoy listening to straight ahead jazz or 
blues, but endless looped improvisation over the same chord structure tends 
to put me to sleep these days? 


Two things led me to purchase Pat Metheny?s latest CD: an interview I read 
in a French magazine which presented the record as a one-track 68 minute 
composition, and the presence on said record of harmonica player Grégoire 
Maret. And, if truth be told, this second motivation was incidental compared 
to the first. 


I didn?t know quite what to expect, but I nabbed the record in the first few 
days after its release. I didn?t regret it..." 

Read the rest at http://harmonica.typepad.com. 

Ben FELTEN