TagsTagsCarly Simon's 1971 hit song beautifully turned inside out by Pat Metheny.
Pat Metheny re-imagines Antonio Carlos Jobim's "The Girl from Ipanema," on baritone guitar. From the terrific new album "What's It All About."
Pat Metheny has released a series of great videos promoting his new album "What's It All About," a collection of solo guitar versions of classic pop tunes. Here's his baritone guitar interpretation of The Association's "Cherish."
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Pat Metheny wrote this beautiful piece for the people of New Orleans. Yes, that's Bill Clinton with Elvis Costello, listening on the side of the stage.
Tonight's insanity break: Pat Metheny and The Metropole Orchestra at the 2003 North Sea Jazz Festival, with a fantastic rendition of "Third Wind" from the album Still Life (Talking). (The 720p HD version looks great in full screen mode.) UPDATE at 2/18/11 5:37:39 pm By the way, don't tell anybody, but registration ...
Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau play the jazz standard “All The Things You Are” at the 2007 San Sebastian Jazz Festival. And by “play” I mean: exhibit a level of telepathic communication beyond most mortal human beings. [Video]
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Here’s a sanity break while I finish writing code for a new embedded slideshow feature — Michael Brecker and a stellar band in 1997 at the “Live By The Sea” music festival in Tokyo, with Pat Metheny (guitar), Joey Calderazzo (keyboards), Jack DeJohnette (drums), and Dave Holland (bass). The tune ...
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I just have to inflict some more Pat Metheny Group on you this evening. This piece is from the excellent album Letter from Home, titled “Have You Heard.” (iTunes Store has it too, with samples you can hear in your browser.) [Video]
A live version from Japan in 1995 of “Here To Stay,” from the Pat Matheny Group’s 1994 masterpiece, We Live Here. (The iTunes Store has this essential jazz album too.) [Video]
A terrific duet on the jazz standard “All the Things You Are,” by Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau. [Video]
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A flawless live performance of Pat Metheny’s epic jazz-fusion suite The Way Up, recorded in Seoul, South Korea in 2005. This embedded YouTube playlist has the whole concert; the video's aspect ratio is a bit stretched vertically, but the audio is very good. Youtube Video
This solo guitar arrangement of Norah Jones’ “Don’t Know Why” is from Pat Metheny’s One Quiet Night. [Video]
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Pat Metheny with Christian McBride (bass) and Antonio Sanchez (drums), tearing through a tune called “Lone Jack,” from the album, Pat Metheny Group. [Video]
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Pat Metheny and band in a flawless performance of “The First Circle,” from the album First Circle, on Italian television in 1988. (Dig Pat’s Italian leather pants.) [Video]
Pat Metheny with the Metropool Orchestra at the 2003 North Sea Jazz Festival: [Video] (Hat tip: Noah.)
From the album [Amazon Link]. [Video]
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Pat Metheny and Michael Brecker rip through Metheny’s “What Do You Want.” [Video]