Name: 80/81
Brand: Pat Metheny

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2727890

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Limited edition

Release date

2010-12-07

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Pat Metheny

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Jazz

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Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. He started playing the trumpet at the age of 8 but later switched to guitar at age 12. By the time he was 15, Metheny was already performing with some of the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, gaining valuable experience at a young age.

In 1974, Metheny made his mark on the international jazz scene during his three-year collaboration with vibraphone great Gary Burton. His unique playing style blended loose and flexible articulation typically reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility. With his debut album "Bright Size Life" released in 1975, Metheny revolutionized the traditional sound of jazz guitar for a new generation.

Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continuously pushed boundaries by incorporating new technology and exploring the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. He has collaborated with renowned artists such as Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Milton Nascimento, Joni Mitchell and David Bowie among others.

stunning 180 gram audiophile, high quality pressing. having made a string of well-received albums with his young band, featuring keyboardist lyle mays, metheny (a former gary burton sideman) had graduated to the front rank of youthful jazz and fusion guitarists. he's a warm player with a harmonically sophisticated approach to soloing, and his breezy compositions made him easily approachable for casual listeners but belied the complexity of much of the music. 80/81 is metheny's musical bar mitzvah: a chance to step up and be counted among the men of the congregation. instead of his usual band of contemporaries, metheny opts to work out with four of jazz's most respected graybeards: bassist charlie haden, drummer jack dejohnette, and saxophonists dewey redman and mike brecker. that both haden and redman are long associated with ornette coleman is represented by a cover of coleman's "turnaround," a surprising move that augured metheny's own future collaboration with the alto legend (on song x). still, in the final analysis, metheny is the leader and the band plays his music.

80/81

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