Metheny's solo is amazing, perfectly connected and the discourse is simple when it needs a clear path, and complex with new layers when Pat feels is opportune. Absolutely brilliant

@fred8097

3 ай бұрын

You've nailed it very articulately :)

Amazing performance. All three players are incredible musicians. Steve's bass sounds great in this mix, superb. Pat's playing is unbelievably artistic and transcendent. Wow!

Steve Rodby,unsung hero.

amazing how this tune changes, Pat always sound so fresh

This song is named after singer James Taylor. Seriously, that was on the "Offramp" CD. Loved it!

I love this peace for 30 years now, thx to Pat and his colleagues.

He played this in Virginia Beach a number of years ago with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez. It was flawless.

i start practice this wonderful tune =) it sounds so easily and cheerful and makes a lot of fun to play! its a real pm classic!

Purely James Taylor inspired especially 31 secs in. One of Pat's finest tunes.

It's really about WHAT notes he plays. There are MANY harmonic and way, way different melodic ideas here than on the '82 version. I'm quite sure it's different every time he plays it..and nobody really plays like him. He sits funny, uses his (left hand) thumb, weird right hand picking techniques and actual flatpicks different than everybody else uses, and he's the most creative and advanced metal string player on the globe that I ever heard...and I've heard hundreds. If Wes Montgomery " put Indianapolis on the map " ( for something other than auto racing ), then Pat Metheny did the same thing for Kansas City ( or Lee's Summit Missouri ). They better put a "Statue in the Park" of him someday, if they haven't already!

i disagree. if you listen closely, his comping style varies on the type of setting he's in. With a piano, his voicings are minimal because he leaves it to whoever is playing. in a trio, he generally has fuller voicing most of the time depending on what the particular bass player needs. it's all about context.

@ryanphelan6861

2 жыл бұрын

its figuratively/literally a different conversation agreed he doesn't need to talk as much or assert himself In larger ensembles seems like hes seamlessly joining beautiful back and forth amongst several. Yet in a trio a lot more space to fill. He's quite minimalistic, if that's possible only for him maybe in such a style:) , in large group setting leaving it to horn, pianist maybe especially brecker always played more notes some beautiful yet busy solos but most do or just can't pull of same sound where from musician to athlete its the genius that makes complex look casual and in almost slow motion looking effort such control of craft. Thats beautiful thing to the absolute obsessed and theory masters its loved and appreciated and equally by someone there with no interest in theory because its simply sounds wonderful and logical. Sorry to run on just agreed entirely

ita an early ibanez prototype with better wood and a very nice wood tailpiece :-)

I thought it was for Bob James.

I think I'd rather have the AF125 with the double humbuckers.

I'll go out on a limb and say it's an Ibanez PM30. It doesn't look exactly like the PM35. I believe the PM30 was an early prototype, IIRC.

OK.....now I get it.....the song is all about "James Taylor." You'd think it would be acoustic, and be about sunshine, and the Birkshires......and about voting for Democrats.