Download or read book The Pat Metheny Interviews written by Richard Niles and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Metheny has not only revolutionised his instrument, the guitar, but also changed the face of jazz itself.
Download or read book Beneath Missouri Skies written by Carolyn Glenn Brewer and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yorker recently referred to Pat Metheny as “possibly the most influential jazz guitarist of the past five decades.” A native of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, just southeast of Kansas City, Metheny started playing in pizza parlors at age fourteen. By the time he graduated from high school he was the first-call guitarist for Kansas City jazz clubs, private clubs, and jazz festivals. Now 66, he attributes his early success to the local musical environment he was brought up in and the players and teachers who nurtured his talent and welcomed him into the jazz community. Metheny's twenty Grammys in ten categories speak to his versatility and popularity. Despite five decades of interviews, none have conveyed in detail his stories about his teenage years. Beneath Missouri Skies also reveals important details about jazz in Kansas City during the sixties and early seventies, often overlooked in histories of Kansas City jazz. Yet this time of cultural change was characterized by an outstanding level of musicianship. Author Carolyn Glenn Brewer shows how his keen sense of ensemble had its genesis in his school band under the guidance of a beloved band director. Drawn from news accounts, archival material, interviews, and remembrances, to which the author had unique access, Beneath Missouri Skies portrays a place and time from which Metheny still draws inspiration and strength.
Download or read book Music and the Creative Spirit written by Lloyd Peterson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and the Creative Spirit is a book of interviews with today's innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde, including Pat Metheny, Regina Carter, Fred Anderson, John Zorn, Joshua Redman, and others.
Download or read book Pat Metheny written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1977-1984 offers a vivid account of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's first creative period, during which he recorded eleven albums for the European label ECM. This unique music reflects his passionate belief in the need to refashion jazz in ways which allow it to speak powerfully to a new generation, and the book provides a portrait of a fascinating but often overlooked period in jazz history.
Download or read book The Real Pat Metheny Book written by Pat Metheny and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Fake Book). 147 tunes from one of the most influential and groundbreaking jazz artists of the modern generation arranged here for all C instruments in the favored Real Book style. Titles include: April Joy * Better Days Ahead * Bright Size Life * Farmer's Trust * (Go) Get It * H & H * Have You Heard * Jaco * James * Lakes * Last Train Home * Midwestern Nights Dream * Phase Dance * Question & Answer * The Red One * So May It Secretly Begin * Sueno Con Mexico * Uniquity Road * Unity Village * Whittlin' * and more!
Download or read book Here and Now written by Pat Martino and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By age 16, Pat Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue. By age 18, Martino moved to Harlem, where he quickly earned a reputation as a hard-bopping six-stringer with formidable chops through a series of apprenticeships with the likes of honking tenor saxophonist Willis “Gaitor Tail” Jackson and Hammond B-3 organ master Jack McDuff. Martino made his auspicious debut as a leader at age 22 with 1967's El Hombre on Prestige and followed with a string of potent recordings for the label that further established him as one of the most distinctive guitar voices on the jazz scene. Then, at the peak of his powers, the bottom fell out. In 1980, he underwent surgery as the result of a nearly fatal brain aneurysm. The surgery left him without any memory of the guitar or his musical career. From that point, Martino undertook the long process of recovery, eventually learning how to play the guitar again; but more important, learning to transcend the instrument itself and live his life completely in the moment. More than just the remarkable story of one of the most original and profoundly influential guitarists in jazz history, this extraordinarily revealing autobiography is also a survival manual, of sorts, in overcoming incredible adversity and learning to live in the here and now.
Download or read book Guitar Talk written by Joel Harrison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of master guitarists, revealed in conversation. Guitar Talk offers interviews with many of the most creative guitarists of our time. This new book presents these conversations, between Joel Harrison and Nels Cline, Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gregory Jackson, Ben Monder, Anthony Pirog, Henry Kaiser, Mike and Leni Stern, Vernon Reid, Mary Halvorson, Nguyên Le, Rez Abbasi, Ava Mendoza, Liberty Ellman, Brandon Ross, Wayne Krantz, Dave Fiuczynski, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Miles Okazaki, Sheryl Bailey, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ralph Towner—twenty-seven great guitarists in all. An enormous range of approaches and sounds exist in the modern guitar. The instrument can howl, scrape, scratch, scream, sing, pluck, and soothe. What stands out in this book is not so much the instrument itself, rather the wonderful and idiosyncratic personalities of these bold souls, their sometimes wild, often zigzagging, and ultimately profound journeys toward beauty, meaning, and excellence in their work. We find out that jazz icon Bill Frisell won a high school band contest playing R&B tunes, beating out future members of Earth Wind and Fire. We learn which of Nels Cline's compositions he wishes to have played at his funeral. Michael Gregory Jackson recounts painful episodes of racism as he stretched between the chasm of avant jazz, rock, and blues in the 1980s. Many more revelations, amusements, and philosophies abound.
Download or read book DownBeat The Great Jazz Interviews written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Culled from the DownBeat archives includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat 's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat . This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat 's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words. Features classic photos and magazine covers fron Downbeat 's vast archive.
Download or read book Playing Changes written by Nate Chinen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.
Download or read book Jazz Composer s Companion written by Gil Goldstein and published by Music Sales Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses songs by various jazz composers to illustrate melody, harmony, and rhythm possibilities, and includes discussions by each composer about the way they create new pieces
Download or read book Pat Metheny written by Pat Metheny and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Jazz Piano Solos). 24 songs from this legendary guitarist and composer beautifully arranged for jazz piano solos! Includes: Always and Forever * Antonia * Are You Going with Me? * Better Days Ahead * First Circle * Have You Heard * In Her Family * (It's Just) Talk * James * Last Train Home * Letter from Home * The Longest Summer * Make Peace * A Map of the World * Mas Alla * Minuano (Six-Eight) * New Year * Phase Dance * Question & Answer * The Road to You * Sirabhorn * So May It Secretly Begin * Sometimes I See * Unity Village. Includes chord names.
Download or read book Pat Metheny Road to the Sun written by Pat Metheny and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop/Rock Guitar/Fretted Instrument Solos
Download or read book The Advancing Guitarist written by Mick Goodrick and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Reference
Download or read book You ll Know When You Get There written by Bob Gluck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and electronic sounds into groundbreaking experiments that helped shape the American popular music that followed. In You’ll Know When You Get There, Bob Gluck offers the first comprehensive study of this influential group, mapping the musical, technological, political, and cultural changes that they not only lived in but also effected. Beginning with Hancock’s formative years as a sideman in bebop and hard bop ensembles, his work with Miles Davis, and the early recordings under his own name, Gluck uncovers the many ingredients that would come to form the Mwandishi sound. He offers an extensive series of interviews with Hancock and other band members, the producer and engineer who worked with them, and a catalog of well-known musicians who were profoundly influenced by the group. Paying close attention to the Mwandishi band’s repertoire, he analyzes a wide array of recordings—many little known—and examines the group’s instrumentation, their pioneering use of electronics, and their transformation of the studio into a compositional tool. From protofunk rhythms to synthesizers to the reclamation of African identities, Gluck tells the story of a highly peculiar and thrillingly unpredictable band that became a hallmark of American genius.
Download or read book Ornette Coleman written by Peter Niklas Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Ornette Coleman approaches his 70th birthday, this book takes full measure of the man who has been called the most important jazz figure since Charlie Parker.
Download or read book The Neo Soul Guitar Book written by SIMON. PRATT and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to Play Neo Soul Guitar With Mark Lettieri
Download or read book Ulf Wakenius Oscar Peterson Licks for Jazz Guitar written by Ulf Wakenius and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
