Topic: Pat Metheny

10 About Town: January 27-29

FRIDAY JANUARY 27. . The News Sentinel Auto Show takes over the Knoxville Convention Center in Downtown Knoxville. More than 25 auto manufacturers...

Blue notes

Last year's Emarcy release, A Moment's Peace, found guitarist John Scofield exploring his sensitive side on an uncharacteristically laid back set...

Free Label Sampler MP3 Album from NetDotMusic.com

Billerica, MA, November 18, 2011 -(PR.com)- Net Dot Music, an indie record label specializing in instrumental fusion - all-instrumental music that...

Jazz, not thuggery

This kind of crazinessdoesn't happen after bad music gigs, does it? You don't get mob chaos when six-figure crowds gather in Montreal's streets to...
I'll be presumptuous and assume that most of the blog's North American readers are not well-informed about the young Norwegian-born...

Four Guitar 4tets (CD reviews)

Picking up where my last set of reviews left off, here's what I think of four CDs from quartets featuring guitar/piano/bass/drums lineups. The...

More Than Just Classical Music

The famed arts conservatory has a rich jazz presence. Today Juilliard Jazz celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Root talked to artistic...

Five questions for Paul Keeling

The Vancouver-based pianist Paul Keeling plays some far-flung gigs this week -- Thursday night at Upstairs Jazz Bar and Grill in Montreal, followed...
It would be safe to say anyone playing or listening to real jazz these days knows the name Pat Metheny. In the modern world of authentic, bebop-driven improvisation, Metheny's mellifluous tone, blurring speed on the fret board, dead-on picking and mastery ...
She was born in Israel, and moved to the USA at a young age and then returned to Israel as a young woman. Gone are the days when you could pick out musical lines that were so obviously Pat Metheny (who promoted ...