Pat Metheny – Acoustic Baritone Guitar
Pat Metheny came to the fore in the 1970′s playing with the brilliant vibraphone player Gary Burton. Many music enthusiasts listened to the contemporary jazz that was recorded by producer Manfred Eicher in Europe on the ECM label.
In this youtube video Pat Metheny is playing a guitar made by Canadian Luthier Linda Manzer, a brilliant luthier that has also built guitars for Bruce Cockburn, the great Canadian singer guitarist.
Pat Metheny is playing Nora Jones’s Don’t Know Why that he reorded on the solo album One Quiet Night. Pat Metheny plays various styles of hybrid jazz and other acoustic styles. He is known for his musicality, meaning it doesn’t just sound lot a lot of notes going nowhere. There are few guitarists that I have heard in contemporary music that are as musical. When you listen closely to this song and compare it to the original, you’ll realise how clever Pat is. He also wrote the song that David Bowie sang in the movie ‘The Falcon and the Snowman’. Note how he has reharmonized the song at about the 3 minute level.
Pat Metheny and people such as Eberhard Weber, Chic Correa, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner and Keith Jarrett introduced many people to a style of music that could have easily been ignored. They aded a freshness to music. Thirty years later he is still making new valid musical statements. His recent work with Bass player Charlie Haden is incredibly beautiful, the album Beyond The Missouri Sky recorded in 1997 is essential listening if you are a guitar player that likes chords, melody and guita arrangements.
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