PAT METHENY GROUP in 1987 (Geffen records years). From L to R in the top row: Armando Marcal, Steve Rodby, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays (1953-2020), David Blamires. From L to R in the bottom row: Mark Ledford (1960-2004), Paul Wertico. Photo Andy Freeberg

☆Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Metheny_Group

 

Lyle, Pat, Steve and their magnificent romantic team were absolutely unique in world music (and not only jazz) of the late 20th century.

The conjugation with Lyle Mays, a talented Wisconsin keyboard player, was crucial. Metheny's ability and melodic and compositional sense found in Mays a natural terrain of completion and sublimation both from a harmonic and melodic point of view, as well as a very happy artistic partnership, even from a purely technical profile.

Those who were familiar with the music of the Pat Metheny Group in recordings or attending concerts remember this energy and incredible emotional upsurge. It is impossible to express in a word. And this memory will remain with us forever.

 

Watch here some performances of this outstanding group during the period of the highest creative take-off in the 1980 - 1990s (all music composed by Pat Metheny and/or Lyle Mays):

 

MINUANO (SIX EIGHT) (1987): m.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHcH1U3SWU

 

LAST TRAIN HOME (1987): m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z4CKwh5VPQ

 

HALF LIFE OF ABSOLUTION (1993): m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lU1uJ0eGGk

 

TO THE END OF THE WORLD (1995): m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBliz_qw-iM

 

PAT METHENY - DON'T FORGET/RENATOS'S THEME (Music from 1996 movies 'Passaggio Per Il Paradiso' (Italy / France / UK, Antonio Baiocco - director, Pat Metheny - composer): m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPTsC8_-YJ0

 

THE WAY UP/OPENING (2004): m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DLqfLytH8

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