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Guitarist Pat Metheny's atmospheric, "smooth" (when that word didn't carry ugly connotations) jazz was just about ready to set the world afire when this Pat Metheny Group effort hit the racks. Metheny's was one of the tighter outfits in modern jazz when this eponymous album was released in 1978 on ECM, the label that really mattered for them in the '70s.
The Group's idiosyncratic blending of folk, blues stylings, improv spaciness, and supple rock underpinnings were unlike anything then happening in jazz. The opener, "San Lorenzo," establishes the mood. Ten-plus minutes of shimmering cymbals pierce a veil of stark bass, luminescent synthesizer motifs, and, of course, Metheny's resolutely gorgeous six- and 12-string picking. The music refracts differing hues in a prismatic puzzle. Sparse and beautiful.
Recorded at Talent Studio, Oslo, Norway in January 1978.
Pat Metheny Group: Pat Metheny (6- & 12-string guitars); Lyle Mays (autoharp, piano, synthesizer); Mark Egan (bass); Dan Gottlieb (drums). Pat Metheny Group Music | List Price | $17.98 (You save $4.79) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Guitar | | Label | ECM | | Orig Year | 1978 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8168  | | CD Universe Part number | 1178933 | | Catalog number | 825593 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 29, 2000 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Manfred Eicher | | Engineer | Jan Erik Kongshaug | | Recording Time | 41 minutes |
Pat Metheny Group Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Great CD
This is Pat M third cd and itīs from 1978 and a milestone in itīs own time.
Almost 30 years later the cd is just as good. High quality guitar jazz all instrumental.I canīt think of anything better if you like Pat M.
Submitted by claesrunbalk (Gothenburgh Sweden) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 2 of 2 found this helpful. The Pat Metheny Group
this cd is,in my view, one of the most brilliant collection of songs in all of jazz. I feel this is Metheny's most lasting and enjoyable pieces of work. I bought this as a vinyl in 1970's when it came out and was completely blown away by the freshest sounds I had heard in years. It still is...
Submitted by a reviewer (santa fe new mexico)
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One of my all time favorites recordings regardless of genre. Intensely involving from start to finish. The finest work by pianist Lyle Mays I know of.
Submitted by a reviewer (Beavercreek, OH)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. Got it all
It wasn't enough that Mr. Metheny comes out with Bright Size Life and Watercolors, painting a picture of guitar-driven Jazz which was unlike just about anything else, and creating a musical interplay with Jaco Pastorius which has barely been matched since, AND establishing a partnership with Lyle Mays which still continues to produce musical velvet - what would you do next? He follows these two albums up with this masterpiece, which I feel hits it's stride on every single tune - not the easiest thing to do considering how varied in style the selections are. But that has always been one of Metheny's strengths for sure.
There are few recorded moments in music I enjoy more than the climax of "Phase Dance" modulating it's way through a series of hypnotically rhythmic progressions, and teasing you by holding back just when you feel the music will explode (or maybe that's just me & my excitement), or the addicting happyfunk guitar riff which kicks off "Jaco." It's just a wonderfully honest and superbly crafted album which sounds inspired - and that really is what all albums should be. Thanks Pat!
Submitted by a reviewer (Portland, OR)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. Might be the best jazz album ever
Thirty years after its release, this still sounds fresh, alive, crisp and will give you chills. These four superb musicians are "in the pocket." Along with Blood, Sweat & Tears second album (God Bless the Child) and George Benson's "Breezin" album, you can't find better music and better drumming. Listen and learn !! Enjoy.
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Recorded live in Dallas, Texas; Nacogdoches, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hartford, Connecticut; Sacramento, California in July, October and November 1982.
A double album that flirts with rock, folk, country and Latin - but is emphatically a jazz album. Metheny is equipped with probably his best ever live group; Steve Rodby, Dan Gottlieb, Nana Vasconcelos, and his right arm, keyboard virtuoso Lyle Mays. The recording exudes warmth, and often improves on tracks already issued on studio albums; for example, 'Phase Dance' is ...
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Opening with some beautiful synclavier and Lyle Mays' exquisite soaring synths on 'Barcarole', this is an atmosphere album. It moves from delicacy to beauty and is arguably the most complete album of his incredible career. The delightful 'James' (a tribute to James Taylor, listen to the guitar inflections) is complemented by the awesome 'Au Lait'; and if that was ...
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BRIGHT SIZE LIFE, his first solo album, is an anomaly in the Pat Metheny discography. Rather than inaugurating a new era in his music, it celebrates the end of another. Of the eight superb arrangements that make up BRIGHT SIZE LIFE, only the gentle ballad "Unity Village" (an overdubbed duet between electric 6- and 12-string guitars) made it to the Pat Metheny Group repetoire. And yet, some 20 years after documenting the music of his first working group, BRIGHT SIZE LIFE endures as among the finest, freshest trio recordings in the history of jazz.
Metheny's enormous lyric gifts were first revealed during a two-year stint as the second guitarist (on electric 12-string, behind Mick Goodrick) in Gary Burton's group, where he developed a powerful rapport with drummer Bob Moses. And like Burton, Metheny's attraction to modern jazz was balanced by a deep feeling for all aspects of cultural Americana; thus, echoes of country music, Presbyterian hymn books and the blues resonate in the title tune and "Omaha Celebration."
But it is the near-telepathic empathy between Metheny and fretless bass guitar innovator Jaco Pastorious that defines the creative tension on BRIGHT SIZE LIFE. With powerhouse drummer Moses providing a fluid cymbal-inflected polyrhythmic underpinning, the yin and yang of these two string players meld into one greater voice. On "Missouri Uncompromised" and "Round Trip/Broadway Blues" their collective interplay at exuberant swing tempos is phenomenal, as Pastorious instinctively rounds out every Metheny phrase with elegant contrapuntal ...
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Pat Metheny's WATERCOLORS is sonically a much simpler record than many of his regular group's albums, but it's nonetheless a musically engaging venture that once again challenges the parameters of modern jazz. With his longtime partner keyboardist Lyle Mays, European bassist Eberhard Weber, and drummer Danny Gottlieb, Metheny leads the listener through a galaxy of ethereal moods, dancing rhythms, and soaring melodies. Add to this the underlying theme of water, and Metheny has all the ingredients for a musical masterpiece.
As expected, the music has the European New Age quality that is imbued on most ECM discs, but Metheny's knack for creating pastoral colors forged with rich musical foundations is as strong as ever. Whether it's on dancing quartet pieces like the opening title track and the delightfully melodic "Lakes" or programmatic swathes of expression like the solo piece "Icefire," Metheny displays his signature flowing style ...
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