Pat Metheny - What’s It All About '2011

Tracks list

Tracklist

1. The Sound of Silence*
2. Cherish
3. Alfie
4. Pipeline**
5. Garota de Ipanema
6. Rainy Days and Mondays
7. That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be
8. Slow Hot Wind
9. Betcha By Golly, Wow
10. And I Love Her***

personnel : 

Pat Metheny - Solo baritone guitar
(except
* 42-string "Pikasso" guitar
** 6-string guitar
*** nylon-string guitar) 

The jazz tradition has long taken pop songs, reimagined and reinvented them
harmonically and rhythmically and re-presented them as vehicles for
improvisation. Pat Metheny has done something different on What's It All About,
his second Nashville-tuned baritone acoustic guitar record (with a handful of
other acoustic instruments and no overdubs, but there are edits). Here he
performs ten pop songs that have long been part of his personal arcana and
recorded them so that we might hear what's inside these songs -- as songs.
Recorded on a single day in February of 2011, Metheny interprets well-known
songs by Paul Simon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lennon & McCartney, Henry Mancini,
the Ventures, Burt Bacharach, Paul Williams, Terry Kirkman, Carly Simon, Thom
Bell, and others across the pop spectrum. His approach is deliberate; his
interest is in the subtlety of melody; its nuance, and mystery; he finds the
places he hears inside the music before these songs even begin, or just after
they end, through a unique series of tunings he employs between A-flat and C.
"The Sound of Silence" opens the set by suggesting the tones of a Japanese koto
in its intro (courtesy of his 42-string Pikasso guitar). When the melody
commences, its languorous richness and rhythmic balance are so perfect, we hear
it not only as the pop song we remember by Simon & Garfunkel, but as a lyric
invention that is almost magical in its possibility. The version of Kirkman's
"Cherish" (a big hit by the Association), is equally profound. He finds the
space where the human voice inserts itself in the harmonic structure and opens
it with his guitar. There is slightly more improvisation in "Alfie," but it's
open, spacious, and full of hinted-at dimensions in the crafting of the song's
parameters. "Girl from Ipanema," played as a skeletal, impressionistic ballad,
uncovers suggestions of darker melodies inside. He pulls out both the implied
elegance in "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," and the quietly
majestic variety of it in "Rainy Days and Mondays." "Betcha by Golly, Wow"
stands as a revelation: its inventive harmonics and syncopations are inherent in
the tune's basic architecture. In closer "And I Love Her" are the direct
implications of bossa that Lennon and McCartney had no doubt taken note of at
the time. Ultimately, What's It All About is an intimate work revealing
Metheny's investigation of composition itself. The notion of song is inherent in
everything he does, and he reveals that inspiration in spades here.~Thom Jurek 
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