I've been listening to Pat Metheny since 1978. One night while being bored with the radio dial I stumbled on a jazz station in Detroit at that time known as WJZZ. The song San Lorenzo was just starting to play and completely blew me away.That song single hand-idly took me from rock to jazz in one song. I've since listened to many great jazz musicians and groups in my life time and just can't get over How Pat Metheny can constantly stay on top. He can change his style and just keeps getting better. When secret story came out in 1992 it just incredible not only how it sounded but he relates to different people and situations in the world through his music. I believe facing west is one his best but, when you think of all he has done, I think it's fair to say all of his song are his best.
+Brian Filar Y'know, Brian, and I am so glad you got into Metheny, he is an experience and a huge influence on me as well. He can definitely take you to a nice place indeed. It's funny though how "Jazz" can take on so many forms. It is probably the most diverse single nomenclature that describes so many genres. I could enumerate 5 different forms of Jazz off the top of my head that all are Jazz but so very different. And I am sure there are more. Keep digging my friend, it's a beautiful world. One that comes to mind is "Happy The Man." Look into it and let me know what you think. Start with their self titled first album. Let me know, k?.....Take care buddy! Rich.
A similar thing happened to me, around the same time. Only it was the great Phil Collins from Genesis - of which I was and still am a lifelong fan - who initiated me into the beautiful and richly tapestried world of Pat Metheny. We used to have a local BBC radio station in London, and for a while, they ran a series called My Top 10, in which each week a different currently popular artiste was invited to take over the station for an hour, and play his or her 10 favourite songs. The week Phil was on the show, I was ready with the cassette recorder, and although little he played was particularly remarkable or unexpected - a handful of 60s Motown and pop hits, mainly - about half way into the hour, he announced that he was going to play something completely out of kilter with the station's usual style, and gave the title and artiste as San Lorenzo by Pat Metheny. I'd seen the name around, but knew nothing of his music, and what I knew of jazz or jazz-rock at that time was mostly restricted to Weather Report, Manhattan Transfer, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Deodato (a Brazilian girlfriend turned me on to the latter pair!); I was also a great admirer of Phil's own efforts with Brand X, who were blindingly brilliant. But nothing had led me to expect the total transformation of my musical tastes that day, on first hearing San Lorenzo which, being a 10-minute track, took up a full sixth of the show. He - and I - was lucky they allowed him to do that! A few days later I took a trip to the West End branch of HMV (I knew there was no chance of finding the album locally!), and I was completely blown away by the beauty, eloquence, inventiveness and originality of every track. I went back there a couple of days later, and picked up American Garage, which was similarly breathtaking; over the next few months and years, I acquired all his/their then-available albums - Letter From Home, Offramp, First Circle, Still Life (Talking), The Falcon And The Snowman, We Live Here, Passaggio Per Il Paradiso, Quartet, As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, and found an endless variety of wonderful listening experiences, different on each album and on each track, yet always suffused with the same veneer of perfection, subtlety, superior musicianship and professionalism. Almost every track left me with an earworm which was never the slightest irritation. To this day, I've kept the input of Pat's diverse material coming into the collection, and each new arrival is as welcome as the first (although I have to say that recently I've struggled a bit with The Way Up and Orchestrion) Pat... and Phil - what more can I say but... Thank you SO much for the last 40 years of sparkling treasure gilding my collection!
I stumbled upon Pat and the eponymous first album Pat Metheny Group in 1978 at a Tower Records store in Los Angeles. "Phase Dance" was playing, and I was blown away. Bought the album right then and never looked back. Last saw PMG live in 2002. Amazing show.
I listened to this whole album when I hiked the Grand Canyon 20 years ago and although I don't listen to this album much anymore when I do it takes me right back to those amazing awestruck days hiking. The music gives me chills as I relive those memories.
That's exactly what this music is, ambient and atmospheric, ideal for accompanying long journeys to alleviate the boredom. But unfortunately it really is nothing more than that. It's flat and monotonous, just like long boring journeys. This isn't music to stir your soul.
It doesn't get any better than this. Reminds me of traveling the roads of Kansas with its infinite blue sky and wide open prairie. Throw some headphones on and crank it. The hair on the back of your neck will stand up.
Although I reside 2 continents away from you I had the same feelings, actually I wrote about it in one editorial, always imagining pillars of sunlight peeping through dark clouds on a vast landscape while I am traveling that road
Thank you dear Stuart Little, USA should be proud like hell to have this great guitar virtuoso , it is about his unearthly soul that this music is a gift to the whole world out there, have a wonderful day dear fellow
I REMEMBER WHEN IT'S RELEASED THIS FANTASTIC ALBUM. I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND IT IN ITALY, BUT DURING MY FIRST AND ONLY TRIP TO AMERICA, I COULD FIND IT IN CHIGAGO ... OBVIOUSLY I BUY IT! STILL TODAY, AFTER 25 YEARS, I KEEP IT LIKE A RELIC. TKS PAT!!!
The year that this came out, I went parasailing for the first time. This song was playing in my head while I was 300' above the water, feeling like I was flying with a bird's eye view. I'll never forget it.
Man....your comment have me CHILLS!! So true!! You know, I don't think there will ever be a musical artist that has as much of an impact -- both musically and emotionally -- as PMG. I don't think I'll ever get tired of or stop listening to these tunes. pat Metheny is an American legend!
@@NECHOLA I can picture that and it's ALSO giving me chills thinking about it! I parasailed in Hilton Head as a kid in the early 90s....I was just a kid! Many years off from discovering the music that changed my life...literally. I'll never forget after my divorce, leaving my old house for the last time to go off and start over again, listening to "To the End of the World"....it almost brings me to tears now, not because of the sadness and pain from that period (5 years ago), but because of how well that song spoke to me and lifted me up. I'll never forget it. Ever. But I love being connected to the other PMG fans....we all understand how absolutely amazing this music is...and how it's profoundly affected ALL of us! Amazing!! 💜
This is probably pats best album almost like an autobiography,its quite superb and has been re-released with a few tracks that were not on the original album,got to be my all time fav,must be a masterpiece,timeless,everyone should have it in there collection,some of the vocals are unbelievable,should be on school curriculum-this is what you call real music.
it takes pure passion to play like Pat Metheny has, and to watch an 8 year old playing percussion with such accuracy is fascinating, congratulations, and thank you for uploading this, Pat Metheney's music shall never die~ it's my ultimate favorite of all time. I fell head over heels in love with Pat's 'Are you Going With me' in 1984 I believe, wow, and seen him only twice in concert, but oh, how he moves my spirit so~ everytime I listen to my Pat Metheney playlists. Wishing all truly good Health ~ with much Namaste Blessings~
Grace Pat was given a honourary degree in music by the University of Miami back in 1972 when he was 18&then in 1975 the Berklee School of Music gave him also a degree! "WOW"!!!! I also understand both of his parents were jazz musicians&that is where he got his training from "family"! Another great artist also underated isTom Grant from Washington state&he is a keyboardist&his parents were mucisians!!!Thanks for that "tid-bit" of information about Pat Metheny!!!
1. "Above the Treetops" (An arrangement of the Cambodian spiritual “The Buong Song”) 2:43 2. "Facing West" 6:05 3. "Cathedral in a Suitcase" 4:52 4. "Finding and Believing" 10:00 5. "The Longest Summer" 6:34 6. "Sunlight" 3:53 7. "Rain River" 7:09 8. "Always and Forever" (Dedicated to Metheny's parents) 5:26 9. "See the World" 4:48 10. "As a Flower Blossoms (I Am Running to You)" (by Pat Metheny & Akiko Yano) 1:53 11. "Antonia" 6:11 12. "The Truth Will Always Be" 9:15 13. "Tell Her You Saw Me" 5:11 14. "Not to be Forgotten (Our Final Hour)" 2:22
For those who haven't discovered it, Rick Beato on TH-cam has been doing a series on Pat, including interviews. Really great stuff. Rick is a guitar player himself. I've been to two live performances by Pat, and I want to do more.
Pat will not record anything he cannot reproduce live on stage. At least this album. But then, according to him, "a few friends" asked when they were going to tour the album. Pat said it can't be done. The friends said sure it can. Synths instead of orchestra. And the tour was amazing. For that matter, anything Pat does is amazing.
Greeley said "Go west, young man." Credited to an 1865 editorial he wrote for the New York Tribune. He firmly believed the West was the place for people willing to work hard to get ahead. It means something special to me because I moved with everything I owned to California on an Amtrak train. I was on top of the world, full of optimism and eager to DO IT.
I agree with you Lenny Mac, but where I live there is no snow, so my trip would be driving thru the mountains with breath taking views of the ocean and palm trees, am talking about the Dom Rep. I also love this music!!
What a cool reply. Listening to this, that instantly made me go to a place I would have never gone but made me feel like i would like to go....Thanks Ricardo Huff, isn't it amazing what real music does to us? Sounds like a song title Pat would use, " A place I would like to go." Happy Holidays
I love music like this also new challenges await for you in life as well thanks Rich there some good music out there gotta find it Happy Holidays to you too
Might be hard for some to savor and digest if they keep comparing it to the formulaic pattern of popular music. Jazz cannot be put into a box or category. Relax and appreciate the fluctuations and nuances.
The rhythm and sound of This track makes me think of horse drawn stagecoaches loaded to the gills bolting across dust covered trails heading west for new lands.
Although I've only been west of the Mississippi River in Rochester,Minnesota, I've never really been "out West." But when I listen to this, I feel like I'm out there. Sort of like Aaron Copland...he wasn't a western Cowboy, but he could imagine it! Maybe that's more important than actually being there!
Is this the most perfect instrumental piece ever recorded? That's a hard one to answer, when it's up against Pat's 3 other most perfect pieces - San Lorenzo, This Is Not America (minus the jarring Bowie vocals), and Last Train Home - all stratospherically far above all the brilliant instrumental pieces recorded in the 60s, by the likes of The Shadows, The Tornados, The Ventures, Jimmy Smith, Herb Alpert, and far too many others to name. This piece just grabs you instantly with both hands from the first notes and, like a satellite on an interplanetary slingshot from Jupiter, whips you off on a breathtaking 6-minute joyride from the plains of America's Midwest to California's Pacific Highway, pausing only briefly to dive into Meteor Crater and soar back out skyward on the thermals, flying high with huge flocks of birds all headed the same way. There are glittering new colours in the fresh, crystal clear morning sunshine that you never saw before, and a hitherto unimagined freedom of movement that only existed in your best dreams. You'll truly believe that man can fly. Moreover, the piece is infused with an indefatigable joie-de-vivre that is impossible not to engage with. Although this is backed by an orchestra, Pat was careful to use the enhancement sparingly, confined to largely unobtrusive backwash highlights, and momentary flourishes to accentuate the details in the spectacular picture he's painting. This is the hallmark of a truly brilliant musician and composer of our times, whose music will be as revered and as highly regarded in future centuries as the classical composers we regard today as so gifted and innovative - Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Debussy, Chopin, Dvorak, Stravinsky, and many others. Pat will be one of an exalted few from our era who will forever be classed as true masters - along with Miles Davis, George Martin, Genesis' Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips, Lennon & McCartney, Ulvaeus & Andersson, Brian Wilson, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Steve Reich, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Kraftwerk and Todd Rundgren. While it's perhaps a little unfair to pick out a small piece from this track, which so demands to be heard in its entirety, just listen to the part where the guitar solo kicks in, from 2:22, follow it through its multifarious twists and turns, and then focus in on the almost imperceptible detail at 2:56, where a small phrase is immediately repeated an octave lower, almost as an afterthought, probably not scored, and almost unnoticed in, and discarded by the relentless forward motion of the piece, before you've had a chance to even register what he just did. THAT is sheer genius! Pat, your gift comes from way beyond the shores of the cosmic ocean! Metheny purists may balk at the suggestion that this track is embedded in an understated disco beat, but that is undeniably the case. I'm surprised that nobody has yet done for this piece what Sueño Latino did, about 25 years ago, for Manuel Göttsching's magnificent E2-E4, thereby bringing Pat's fabulously picturesque music to a much wider audience. How about it, somebody? (If Pat would allow it, of course...)
Sounds like the western music that was on those old western sitcoms&movies of years ago. I picture a covered wagon being pulled by a team of horses taking a young family to some new frontier in the old west&the western late afternoon sun setting down under the horizon.
There is a song by a Brazilian jazz artist, Manfredo Fest titled "Facing East" & was from the mid/late seventies !!!! This song I picture a wagon train going west across the prairie to California with a family on board !!!!! John Wayne would have used this song in one of his good western movies he made !!!!!
This is the cheeziest most formuleic piece of music I have ever heard, but from the comments and the date of production I summise that that is probably so because it set the tone and has been imitated?
I've just compiled my 'Dream Metheny EP', on tape, at least: San Lorenzo Facing West This Is Not America (12" instrumental version from B-side of Bowie/Metheny single) Last Train Home What more, truly, could you ever want on a desert island, repeating over and over for the rest of your life? If only such a fabulous artefact existed!!
TOUT SIMPLEMENT LE PLUS GRAND GÉNIE MUSICAL QUE LA TERRE AI JAMAIS PORTÉ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! C'EST UN EXTRA TERRESTRE UN MARTIEN IL N'EST PAS DE CE MONDE C'EST COMPLÈTEMENT FOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! L'HOMME QUI A RÉINVENTÉ ET REDÉFINI LA MUSIQUE AU 20 ÈME SIÈCLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIEU EST DESCENDU SUR TERRE ET IL S'EST DÉGUISÉ EN PAT METHENY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIRACULEUX LE GRAAL TOUT SIMPLEMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HISTORIQUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNE DERNIÈRE CHOSE QUI EN DIT LONG SUR LE TALENT UNIQUE DANS LES ANNALES DE LA MUSIQUE DE CET EXTRA TERRESTRE 38 NOMINATIONS AUX GRAMMY AWARDS DONT 20 VICTOIRES DANS 10 CATÉGORIES DIFFÉRENTES ( UNIQUE DANS L'HISTOIRE DE LA MUSIQUE TOUT SIMPLEMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) VOUS COMPRENEZ POURQUOI ???????? DIEU EST DESCENDU SUR TERRE ET IL S'EST DÉGUISÉ EN PAT METHENY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MONSTRUEUX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GUY
Yeah, The Weather Channel was/is a big Metheny supporter ever since their 1982 inception. Sadly, Pat & Friends never have been given much fm play time over the years, so it was always nice to hear the songs played kinda out of nowhere when you weren't expecting a surprise blast of Pat!?
Great song, great album, makes my imagination work overtime ;-) I see ... . picturesque valleys ... spring ... the road... the car ... small town ... facing west ... :-) ... with someone I love :-)
Peking Thom that is true, I have noticed myself with the weather channel "with your local weather&forecast on the eights" them playing Pat Metheny! Yeah Pat has always been under-rated as compared to other jazz musicians! However he likes to tour live&I really like that!!!
Your suppositions have merit based upon the bands early geographical origins. Both Pat and Lyle are from "out West" and that influence has been an elemental portion of what comprises their signature sound. This tune reminds me of Last Train Home, as it too has that "sound" to which you refer.
Peking Thom I know Pat Metheny is from Misouri&comes from parents who were muscisians&"Lyle Mays"?? Iam familiar with Lyle Mays as well but where abouts is he from? Iam familiar with Pat Metheny's Last Train Home-good tune!!!!
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Pat Metheny is an American treasure.
Bruce Friedman . Agreed. Hi from the UK all.
Truth...
I've been listening to Pat Metheny since 1978. One night while being bored with the radio dial I stumbled on a jazz station in Detroit at that time known as WJZZ. The song San Lorenzo was just starting to play and completely blew me away.That song single hand-idly took me from rock to jazz in one song. I've since listened to many great jazz musicians and groups in my life time and just can't get over How Pat Metheny can constantly stay on top. He can change his style and just keeps getting better. When secret story came out in 1992 it just incredible not only how it sounded but he relates to different people and situations in the world through his music. I believe facing west is one his best but, when you think of all he has done, I think it's fair to say all of his song are his best.
+Brian Filar Y'know, Brian, and I am so glad you got into Metheny, he is an experience and a huge influence on me as well. He can definitely take you to a nice place indeed. It's funny though how "Jazz" can take on so many forms. It is probably the most diverse single nomenclature that describes so many genres. I could enumerate 5 different forms of Jazz off the top of my head that all are Jazz but so very different. And I am sure there are more. Keep digging my friend, it's a beautiful world. One that comes to mind is "Happy The Man." Look into it and let me know what you think. Start with their self titled first album. Let me know, k?.....Take care buddy! Rich.
A similar thing happened to me, around the same time. Only it was the great Phil Collins from Genesis - of which I was and still am a lifelong fan - who initiated me into the beautiful and richly tapestried world of Pat Metheny.
We used to have a local BBC radio station in London, and for a while, they ran a series called My Top 10, in which each week a different currently popular artiste was invited to take over the station for an hour, and play his or her 10 favourite songs.
The week Phil was on the show, I was ready with the cassette recorder, and although little he played was particularly remarkable or unexpected - a handful of 60s Motown and pop hits, mainly - about half way into the hour, he announced that he was going to play something completely out of kilter with the station's usual style, and gave the title and artiste as San Lorenzo by Pat Metheny.
I'd seen the name around, but knew nothing of his music, and what I knew of jazz or jazz-rock at that time was mostly restricted to Weather Report, Manhattan Transfer, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Deodato (a Brazilian girlfriend turned me on to the latter pair!); I was also a great admirer of Phil's own efforts with Brand X, who were blindingly brilliant. But nothing had led me to expect the total transformation of my musical tastes that day, on first hearing San Lorenzo which, being a 10-minute track, took up a full sixth of the show. He - and I - was lucky they allowed him to do that!
A few days later I took a trip to the West End branch of HMV (I knew there was no chance of finding the album locally!), and I was completely blown away by the beauty, eloquence, inventiveness and originality of every track. I went back there a couple of days later, and picked up American Garage, which was similarly breathtaking; over the next few months and years, I acquired all his/their then-available albums - Letter From Home, Offramp, First Circle, Still Life (Talking), The Falcon And The Snowman, We Live Here, Passaggio Per Il Paradiso, Quartet, As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, and found an endless variety of wonderful listening experiences, different on each album and on each track, yet always suffused with the same veneer of perfection, subtlety, superior musicianship and professionalism. Almost every track left me with an earworm which was never the slightest irritation. To this day, I've kept the input of Pat's diverse material coming into the collection, and each new arrival is as welcome as the first (although I have to say that recently I've struggled a bit with The Way Up and Orchestrion)
Pat... and Phil - what more can I say but... Thank you SO much for the last 40 years of sparkling treasure gilding my collection!
I stumbled upon Pat and the eponymous first album Pat Metheny Group in 1978 at a Tower Records store in Los Angeles. "Phase Dance" was playing, and I was blown away. Bought the album right then and never looked back. Last saw PMG live in 2002. Amazing show.
That's because he's a GENIUS !
I'm with you Brian. I too grew up in Detroit and also stumbled upon WJZZ decades ago and got turned on to modern jazz instrumentalists like Metheny.
I listened to this whole album when I hiked the Grand Canyon 20 years ago and although I don't listen to this album much anymore when I do it takes me right back to those amazing awestruck days hiking. The music gives me chills as I relive those memories.
The king of driving music, his sound is unmistakable.
Absolutely thinking the same thing, he paints pictures, or even walking music. He'll make you not think about how long the walk is, he cheers you up.
Well, that explains why Mario Kart jacked this for their Rainbow Road level lol
That's exactly what this music is, ambient and atmospheric, ideal for accompanying long journeys to alleviate the boredom. But unfortunately it really is nothing more than that. It's flat and monotonous, just like long boring journeys. This isn't music to stir your soul.
Most DEFINITELY great ARTIST.....and with MUSIC that YOU can DRIVE for HOURS 🤔
It doesn't get any better than this. Reminds me of traveling the roads of Kansas with its infinite blue sky and wide open prairie. Throw some headphones on and crank it. The hair on the back of your neck will stand up.
Although I reside 2 continents away from you I had the same feelings, actually I wrote about it in one editorial, always imagining pillars of sunlight peeping through dark clouds on a vast landscape while I am traveling that road
Thank you dear Stuart Little, USA should be proud like hell to have this great guitar virtuoso , it is about his unearthly soul that this music is a gift to the whole world out there, have a wonderful day dear fellow
What an incredible piece of music. I absolutely love this song
I REMEMBER WHEN IT'S RELEASED THIS FANTASTIC ALBUM.
I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND IT IN ITALY, BUT DURING MY FIRST AND ONLY TRIP TO AMERICA, I COULD FIND IT IN CHIGAGO ... OBVIOUSLY I BUY IT! STILL TODAY, AFTER 25 YEARS, I KEEP IT LIKE A RELIC. TKS PAT!!!
This song goes great with a helicopter ride over snowcapped mountains to a glacier in Skagway, Alaska. Love this music. Time for a road trip!
Been there!
This song always makes me feel that I am flying... soaring high above the earth. Not in an airplane or helicopter... but with wings like a bird.
The year that this came out, I went parasailing for the first time. This song was playing in my head while I was 300' above the water, feeling like I was flying with a bird's eye view. I'll never forget it.
Man....your comment have me CHILLS!! So true!! You know, I don't think there will ever be a musical artist that has as much of an impact -- both musically and emotionally -- as PMG. I don't think I'll ever get tired of or stop listening to these tunes. pat Metheny is an American legend!
@@NECHOLA I can picture that and it's ALSO giving me chills thinking about it! I parasailed in Hilton Head as a kid in the early 90s....I was just a kid! Many years off from discovering the music that changed my life...literally. I'll never forget after my divorce, leaving my old house for the last time to go off and start over again, listening to "To the End of the World"....it almost brings me to tears now, not because of the sadness and pain from that period (5 years ago), but because of how well that song spoke to me and lifted me up. I'll never forget it. Ever.
But I love being connected to the other PMG fans....we all understand how absolutely amazing this music is...and how it's profoundly affected ALL of us! Amazing!! 💜
Yup! Me too. Something wonderful inside us is evoked.🙏
This is probably pats best album almost like an autobiography,its quite superb and has been re-released with a few tracks that were not on the original album,got to be my all time fav,must be a masterpiece,timeless,everyone should have it in there collection,some of the vocals are unbelievable,should be on school curriculum-this is what you call real music.
it takes pure passion to play like Pat Metheny has, and to watch an 8 year old playing percussion with such accuracy is fascinating, congratulations, and thank you for uploading this, Pat Metheney's music shall never die~ it's my ultimate favorite of all time. I fell head over heels in love with Pat's 'Are you Going With me' in 1984 I believe, wow, and seen him only twice in concert, but oh, how he moves my spirit so~ everytime I listen to my Pat Metheney playlists. Wishing all truly good Health ~ with much Namaste Blessings~
awesome
It was 25 years ago - maybe on first June - I purchased this record . It got indelibly marked among my memories of those days
I live in South Africa and there are times when I take a road trip. This music reminds me of those trips
Grace Pat was given a honourary degree in music by the University of Miami back in 1972 when he was 18&then in 1975 the Berklee School of Music gave him also a degree! "WOW"!!!! I also understand both of his parents were jazz musicians&that is where he got his training from "family"! Another great artist also underated isTom Grant from Washington state&he is a keyboardist&his parents were mucisians!!!Thanks for that "tid-bit" of information about Pat Metheny!!!
Genius. Absolute genius. Symphonic Jazz
Pat guitar out of this world!!! Thank Pat and your Team
The best of Pat Metheny. It's so joyful and sad and true of young love.
pat is the greatest musician in the world God Bless him
This music gives me grand visions of beautiful American landscapes...... Fantastic
Absolutely fantastic and wonderful jazz music and always love pat menthey songs
1. "Above the Treetops" (An arrangement of the Cambodian spiritual “The Buong Song”) 2:43
2. "Facing West" 6:05
3. "Cathedral in a Suitcase" 4:52
4. "Finding and Believing" 10:00
5. "The Longest Summer" 6:34
6. "Sunlight" 3:53
7. "Rain River" 7:09
8. "Always and Forever" (Dedicated to Metheny's parents) 5:26
9. "See the World" 4:48
10. "As a Flower Blossoms (I Am Running to You)" (by Pat Metheny & Akiko Yano) 1:53
11. "Antonia" 6:11
12. "The Truth Will Always Be" 9:15
13. "Tell Her You Saw Me" 5:11
14. "Not to be Forgotten (Our Final Hour)" 2:22
This is my favorite breakfast tune.
It Kickstarts my morning every day 👍👍👍👍.. Love it...
My soul delights itself with this solo 2:20
Brings back memories 🫶🏾👊🏾🙌🏾🎵🤟🏾💎
this guy makes me feel,imagine,dream with is music like no other...
My first intro song to Pat Metheny, awesome. Reminds me of when I'm flying in the afternoon chasing the sunset.
Pat Metheny. que deleite para mis oidos.
Sin duda el mas grande del jazz contemporaneo.
Me encanta su misica.
This song played during The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s back in January 2000 and July 2000. That's when I discovered his awesome music
For those who haven't discovered it, Rick Beato on TH-cam has been doing a series on Pat, including interviews. Really great stuff. Rick is a guitar player himself. I've been to two live performances by Pat, and I want to do more.
Al escuchar este super tema, me siento como en un viaje hacia lo desconocido pero fascinante. Pat todo un dios de la música
This is my absolute favorite Pat Metheny track.
AS FALLS WICHITA, SO FALLS WICHITA FALLS (with Lyle Mays) was my first Pat Metheny album.
One of my favorite PMG selections. Definitely in the top 10.
Only great musicians make great music with no words in the song
Pat Metheny never ceases to amaze me! In his solos, how the hell does play over those chords so easily??
this is one of my personal favorities by pat well done i remember the cd in 1992 cant even find that cd today in 2011
Esto es lo máximo..!! Gran tema de uno de los más grandes músicos contemporáneos que existen
If the Weather Channel ever decides to use his music again for local on the 8s this is the very first thing they should pick to use
Pat Metheny is the greatest player ever!!
The whole album is pretty amazing. The album cover is also special to me, burned into my brain.
Pat will not record anything he cannot reproduce live on stage. At least this album. But then, according to him, "a few friends" asked when they were going to tour the album. Pat said it can't be done. The friends said sure it can. Synths instead of orchestra. And the tour was amazing.
For that matter, anything Pat does is amazing.
Splendiferously optimistic. It's easy to imagine a young man with a dream on a train heading to the place that Horace Greeley recommended.
Don't know what this means,but it sounds very good.
Greeley said "Go west, young man." Credited to an 1865 editorial he wrote for the New York Tribune. He firmly believed the West was the place for people willing to work hard to get ahead. It means something special to me because I moved with everything I owned to California on an Amtrak train. I was on top of the world, full of optimism and eager to DO IT.
I was playing Spotify and I woke up to this song because I have a tendency to heart a song so I can never lose it again, it was just too good.
I agree with you Lenny Mac, but where I live there is no snow, so my trip would be driving thru the mountains with breath taking views of the ocean and palm trees, am talking about the Dom Rep. I also love this music!!
Met pat me they at a record shop when this album came out and was gracious to sign it for me
love this song reminds me going to a new place that i never went or a new thing i never do
What a cool reply. Listening to this, that instantly made me go to a place I would have never gone but made me feel like i would like to go....Thanks Ricardo Huff, isn't it amazing what real music does to us? Sounds like a song title Pat would use, " A place I would like to go." Happy Holidays
I love music like this also new challenges await for you in life as well thanks Rich there some good music out there gotta find it Happy Holidays to you too
I have the exact same feeling! A long road trip or going by train :)
@@a12dhie agree on that there no best decade what new challenges awaits for us we'll find out travel is the way to go
Might be hard for some to savor and digest if they keep comparing it to the formulaic pattern of popular music. Jazz cannot be put into a box or category. Relax and appreciate the fluctuations and nuances.
This is music that speaks without words. People who can't follow a melody won't know what to do with it.
This occasion would be better celebrated with no talk at all.
You're right on point
The rhythm and sound of This track makes me think of horse drawn stagecoaches loaded to the gills bolting across dust covered trails heading west for new lands.
PAT...TU MUSICA ES VIDA...GRACIAS!!!
Fantastic vacation music for the 90s. I remember when dad would run this song in the aerostar!
DEREK
Up north Michigan
Although I've only been west of the Mississippi River in Rochester,Minnesota, I've never really been "out West." But when I listen to this, I feel like I'm out there. Sort of like Aaron Copland...he wasn't a western Cowboy, but he could imagine it! Maybe that's more important than actually being there!
Awsome...you should see the DVD OF ALL
Methey in a major chord!! I soak it like a sponge. Top shelf stuff.
Is this the most perfect instrumental piece ever recorded? That's a hard one to answer, when it's up against Pat's 3 other most perfect pieces - San Lorenzo, This Is Not America (minus the jarring Bowie vocals), and Last Train Home - all stratospherically far above all the brilliant instrumental pieces recorded in the 60s, by the likes of The Shadows, The Tornados, The Ventures, Jimmy Smith, Herb Alpert, and far too many others to name.
This piece just grabs you instantly with both hands from the first notes and, like a satellite on an interplanetary slingshot from Jupiter, whips you off on a breathtaking 6-minute joyride from the plains of America's Midwest to California's Pacific Highway, pausing only briefly to dive into Meteor Crater and soar back out skyward on the thermals, flying high with huge flocks of birds all headed the same way. There are glittering new colours in the fresh, crystal clear morning sunshine that you never saw before, and a hitherto unimagined freedom of movement that only existed in your best dreams. You'll truly believe that man can fly. Moreover, the piece is infused with an indefatigable joie-de-vivre that is impossible not to engage with.
Although this is backed by an orchestra, Pat was careful to use the enhancement sparingly, confined to largely unobtrusive backwash highlights, and momentary flourishes to accentuate the details in the spectacular picture he's painting. This is the hallmark of a truly brilliant musician and composer of our times, whose music will be as revered and as highly regarded in future centuries as the classical composers we regard today as so gifted and innovative - Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Debussy, Chopin, Dvorak, Stravinsky, and many others. Pat will be one of an exalted few from our era who will forever be classed as true masters - along with Miles Davis, George Martin, Genesis' Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips, Lennon & McCartney, Ulvaeus & Andersson, Brian Wilson, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Steve Reich, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Kraftwerk and Todd Rundgren.
While it's perhaps a little unfair to pick out a small piece from this track, which so demands to be heard in its entirety, just listen to the part where the guitar solo kicks in, from 2:22, follow it through its multifarious twists and turns, and then focus in on the almost imperceptible detail at 2:56, where a small phrase is immediately repeated an octave lower, almost as an afterthought, probably not scored, and almost unnoticed in, and discarded by the relentless forward motion of the piece, before you've had a chance to even register what he just did. THAT is sheer genius! Pat, your gift comes from way beyond the shores of the cosmic ocean!
Metheny purists may balk at the suggestion that this track is embedded in an understated disco beat, but that is undeniably the case. I'm surprised that nobody has yet done for this piece what Sueño Latino did, about 25 years ago, for Manuel Göttsching's magnificent E2-E4, thereby bringing Pat's fabulously picturesque music to a much wider audience. How about it, somebody? (If Pat would allow it, of course...)
That is the song I have requested when I am laid to rest as well. It somehow desribes ME
Of course , they could throw "Dream of the Return " in there as well...... LOL
Peter Gotta
You have excellent taste sir !
Sounds like the western music that was on those old western sitcoms&movies of years ago. I picture a covered wagon being pulled by a team of horses taking a young family to some new frontier in the old west&the western late afternoon sun setting down under the horizon.
Only a Word: FANTASTIC!
Thank youu for this. This is the magic!!!!
Good job man, you got them ALL in there.
Such a Happy sounding piece of music.
There is a song by a Brazilian jazz artist, Manfredo Fest titled "Facing East" & was from the mid/late seventies !!!! This song I picture a wagon train going west across the prairie to California with a family on board !!!!! John Wayne would have used this song in one of his good western movies he made !!!!!
A masterpiece.
Beautiful...
This is the cheeziest most formuleic piece of music I have ever heard, but from the comments and the date of production I summise that that is probably so because it set the tone and has been imitated?
I've just compiled my 'Dream Metheny EP', on tape, at least:
San Lorenzo
Facing West
This Is Not America (12" instrumental version from B-side of Bowie/Metheny single)
Last Train Home
What more, truly, could you ever want on a desert island, repeating over and over for the rest of your life? If only such a fabulous artefact existed!!
hes the pope of jazz
1year later still Rainbow Road .. love you Pat
TOUT SIMPLEMENT LE PLUS GRAND GÉNIE MUSICAL QUE LA TERRE AI JAMAIS PORTÉ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! C'EST UN EXTRA TERRESTRE UN MARTIEN IL N'EST PAS DE CE MONDE C'EST COMPLÈTEMENT FOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! L'HOMME QUI A RÉINVENTÉ ET REDÉFINI LA MUSIQUE AU 20 ÈME SIÈCLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIEU EST DESCENDU SUR TERRE ET IL S'EST DÉGUISÉ EN PAT METHENY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIRACULEUX LE GRAAL TOUT SIMPLEMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HISTORIQUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNE DERNIÈRE CHOSE QUI EN DIT LONG SUR LE TALENT UNIQUE DANS LES ANNALES DE LA MUSIQUE DE CET EXTRA TERRESTRE 38 NOMINATIONS AUX GRAMMY AWARDS DONT 20 VICTOIRES DANS 10 CATÉGORIES DIFFÉRENTES ( UNIQUE DANS L'HISTOIRE DE LA MUSIQUE TOUT SIMPLEMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) VOUS COMPRENEZ POURQUOI ???????? DIEU EST DESCENDU SUR TERRE ET IL S'EST DÉGUISÉ EN PAT METHENY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MONSTRUEUX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GUY
А я Русский. 94 год Сочи, и эта музыка... навсегда в душе
First heard this tune at around 3 a.m. on a raft going down the Mississippi being played by Lester the Nightfly over WJAZ radio.
Yeah, The Weather Channel was/is a big Metheny supporter ever since their 1982 inception. Sadly, Pat & Friends never have been given much fm play time over the years, so it was always nice to hear the songs played kinda out of nowhere when you weren't expecting a surprise blast of Pat!?
Fantastic song.
Great song, great album, makes my imagination work overtime ;-) I see ... . picturesque valleys ... spring ... the road... the car ... small town ... facing west ... :-) ... with someone I love :-)
Peking Thom that is true, I have noticed myself with the weather channel "with your local weather&forecast on the eights" them playing Pat Metheny! Yeah Pat has always been under-rated as compared to other jazz musicians! However he likes to tour live&I really like that!!!
I love prepossessing touch of the first sentence :) But I do agree with the rest.
Genio entre los genios,thnx Pat!
Amazing song. open my heart
Pat....en su mejor versión solista!!!! Una masa!!!!
the best
Your suppositions have merit based upon the bands early geographical origins. Both Pat and Lyle are from "out West" and that influence has been an elemental portion of what comprises their signature sound. This tune reminds me of Last Train Home, as it too has that "sound" to which you refer.
the man
L'ho visto a Sanremo in concerto 2 estati fa. Bello.
Cool music
Sounds like a JRPG town theme, neat.
reminds me of riding on epona through hyrule
Me encanta la musica de Pat Metheny!,un musico muy colorista,y su gutarra un sonido unico!
tengo buenas música pero esto es diferente, genial.
YES, nailed it!
Ten obrazek pasuje do tej pięknej muzyki, jak pięść do nosa.
this guitar solo is advanced alien race level
impresionante
Pat es lo más bello te hace soñar despierta
It's all about moving on and forward.
Para sentir con el ❤ que tema mas hermoso
Should have been 816 Mega likes !
At his best!
Nice
this is my shit pat menteny is the truth its like you get the holy ghost in his music
The best
Fantastic pat from italy Gaetano chitarrist
super albom!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peking Thom I know Pat Metheny is from Misouri&comes from parents who were muscisians&"Lyle Mays"?? Iam familiar with Lyle Mays as well but where abouts is he from? Iam familiar with Pat Metheny's Last Train Home-good tune!!!!
Great!