Pat Metheny, “You Are” from ‘From This Place’ (2019): One Track Mind
Pat Metheny’s “You Are” is the scintillating second advance single from his upcoming album ‘From The Place.’

Pat Metheny’s “You Are” is the scintillating second advance single from his upcoming album ‘From The Place.’
Two hours, spent with Pat Metheny during a solo show in New Hampshire, and I was exhausted.
40 years ago, Pat Metheny took the first of many detours into quiet emotion. ‘New Chautauqua’ remains the one that most strongly connects.

Pat Metheny aimed to construct a performance that could only spring from the fertile mind of his mentor Eberhard Weber. And, he succeeded.
Here is a reflection on free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and his wonderful 1985 encounter with Pat Metheny, ‘Song X.”
When Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays’ ‘As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls’ arrived in May 1981, it sounded like nothing else in my record collection.

Here is a review of Jimmy Greene’s ‘Beautiful Life,’ a hopeful and very personal message sprung from the unspeakable tragedy of Sandy Hook.
Some think Metheny is joking around, that he couldn’t possibly like “all of this noise.”
Metheny’s ultimate road trip song, this one always makes me feel like I’ve just escaped something.
Each song on ‘Offramp’ is so different from the next, and yet it all hangs together.