I saw Pat Metheny's trio about six years ago in Winnipeg. When they walked on stage, before playing any notes, the audience gave them a standing ovation.

Apart from a strange, piercing guitar solo that was more industrial noise than anything else, they were absolutely fabulous.

For the new fans out there, what are some of the seminal Metheny recordings that you would recommend? Two of my favorites (and I have many)would include Still Life (Talking) and Question & Answer.

that a tricky one.

check out my review of the ecm :rarum disc. that's got references various 'types' of Metheny Group recordings.

and then there's the Metheny Trios.

Yes I've been to a number of Metheny shows and that "strange, piercing guitar solo" seems to show up from time to time. My friend who I always go to the show with loves it!

sorry steve. just because i have better taste than you isn't any reason to give me shit for it!!

;-)

enjoy the show, Mark. I'm guessing from your past articles and the like, this is gonna be some jazz-type tomfoolery with all manner of on-the-spot flourishes. For sure, i respect that kinda stuff immensely, but most times it goes over my head, even though i can tell it's "good". Just one of those things, man. Some folks never get jazz, some folks never get chickenpox. i'd have prefered jazz, though.

hmmm, i got chicken pox AND jazz!

funny thing though, is that i never really got jazz until i went to a show. THEN! i got it.

I think it works best if you get one when you're young and one when you're older.

i also got the mumps when i was a kid...and then later on i 'got' Captain Beefheart.

somehow, they're related.

;-)

well, i got a letter in the post the other day inviting me to come get a mumps vaccination. aparently there's a damn epidemic going on round here.

and i imagine you're right, about "getting" it at a live show. I mean i bought Kind Of Blue, and i loved it for the duration of the playing, but i never put it on again except for a couple times i did the "romantic" stuff like the cooking and so on, and then Miles Davis on in the background. I think the response was "can we put on Nirvana after?"

for sure, i would've rather heard nirvana too, but that's hardly the point.

Pat Metheny...good stuff there..

me, i tend ta dig the olde skewl Hard Bop

Bird and Diz

Thelonious Monk

older Miles Davis stuff...

old joke coming..

a horn player died and goes to Heaven..St. Peter welcomes him and hands him a perfect horn, then directs him to Cloud Nine where folks are jamming..

the Band is huge, everyone is there...wailing big..one guy...with his back to the audience, is blowing the greatest solo ever heard...the final Notes dwindle...the new guy whispers to someone next to him..."wow..Miles made it up here?"

"no man..that's God..he just thinks he's Miles"

Excelsior!