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Pat Metheny: I didn't get the album title until the very end, when I was in full freak-out mode. Ken Micallef: What does the album title, From This Place, mean? I saw this every time, no matter what tour, band, or project we were doing. I have this image of Pat these ridiculously intricate guitar and simultaneously making mental notes of what else was doing. This was the most challenging piece of music any of us had ever played, and we were a little overwhelmed.

I remember when we were rehearsing for the Way Up tour in 2005. When everybody is looking exhausted, Pat looks fresh and jovial. LR: William Kanengiser, John Dearman, Scott Tennant, and Matthew Greifĭrummer Antonio Sánchez says about his longtime musical partner: 'Pat's brain works in a way that allows him to be hyperfocused on the task at hand for very long periods of time. Pete Karam recorded, mixed, and mastered Road to the Sun it, too, is available on CD, vinyl, and 24/96 download. The album closes with a performance of Arvo Pärt's 'Für Alina,' performed by Metheny on his Linda Manzer 42-string Pikasso guitar. Road to the Sun (BMG/Modern Recordings), released earlier this year, features Metheny compositions performed by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. The vinyl was pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands. It's available on CD, vinyl, and high-resolution 24/96 download. From This Place was recorded by engineers Luke Klingensmith, Jay Marcovitz, Phil Levine, and Rich Breen and mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound. On the album, Metheny plays his 1940 Gibson ES-250, Slaman Traveling Sister 150/250, and Ibanez PM2 guitars. His most recent album, Road to the Sun, is his 50th.Īpart from his ambitious work and touring schedule, a few things make Metheny distinctive: his oft-copied guitar sound and style beautiful, brilliant melodies that have withstood time soulful sounds that touch the heart but are never mawkish endless curiosity about the world around him and ceaseless searching for new means of expression.įrom This Place, on Nonesuch, includes 10 Metheny compositions and features Antonio Sánchez, his longtime drummer Malaysian/Australian bassist Linda May Han Oh British pianist Gwilym Simcock and the Hollywood Studio Symphony conducted by Joel McNeely, as well as Meshell Ndegeocello (vocals), Grégoire Maret (harmonica), and Luis Conte (percussion). Metheny has recorded his compositions for his Pat Metheny Group, in duets with Jim Hall and Charlie Haden, for solo guitar and robot orchestra ( Orchestrion), soundtracks, swinging trios, noise-fests ( Zero Tolerance for Silence), and many side projects. He's also a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. He has three gold albums, several Downbeat awards (including in 2020 as best guitarist and for the best jazz album, for From This Place), and 20 Grammy Awards: He's the only person ever to win Grammys in 10 categories. Metheny is one of the best-selling jazz artists ever.

trains, tornadoes, freezing winters, hot summers, small-town isolationall fed an imagination that (combined with plenty of practice) fed a legendary music career. When Pat Metheny was growing up in the small Missouri town of Lee's Summit, his family's home stood within can't-even-hear-yourself-shouting distance of the Missouri Pacific railroad.

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