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Pat Metheny - The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (Hardcover)
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Pat Metheny - The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
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The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular
and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM
Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of
Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven
stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label
ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of
recordings encompasses both straight-ahead jazz playing with
virtuosic small ensembles and the increasingly complex textures and
structures of the Pat Metheny Group, a hugely successful band also
notable for its creative exploration of advanced music technologies
which were state-of-the-art at the time. Metheny's music in all its
shapes and forms broke major new ground in its refusal to subscribe
to either of the stylistic poles of bebop and jazz-rock fusion
which prevailed in the late 1970s. Through a series of detailed
analyses based on a substantial body of new transcriptions from the
recordings, this study reveals the close interrelationship of
improvisation and pre-composition which lies at the very heart of
the music. Furthermore, these analyses vividly demonstrate how
Metheny's music is often conditioned by a strongly linear narrative
model: both its story-telling characteristics and atmospheric
suggestiveness have sometimes been compared to those of film music,
a genre in which the guitarist also became active during this early
period. The melodic memorability for which Metheny's compositions
and improvisations have long been world-renowned is shown to be
just one important element in an unusually rich and flexible
musical language that embraces influences as diverse as bebop, free
jazz, rock, pop, country & western, Brazilian music, classical
music, minimalism, and the avant-garde. These elements are melded
into a uniquely distinctive soundworld which, above all, directly
reflects Metheny's passionate belief in the need to refashion jazz
in ways which can allow it to speak powerfully to each new
generation of youthful listeners.
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