Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays

Artist: Bob Curnow
Label: Mama Jazz Foundation
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 734956100926
EAN: 0734956100926
ASIN: B0000018LY

Release Date: 1995-01-31

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Tracks:

(It's Just) Talk
Always And Forever
The First Circle
Letter From Home
Are We There Yet?
If I Could
See The World
Minuano (Six Eight)
Dream Of The Return
Every Summer Night
In Her Family
Have You Heard

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Customer Reviews:

Impressive.......2006-09-23

Hearing Metheney's tunes in a different context, apart from his guitar and Mayes' ubiquitous synth, really helps you to appreciate what strong, memorable themes Metheny writes. And Curnow's arrangments are first rate; he knows just what voice to assign where. The result is classic big band sound with some of the hippest tunes ever arranged for that settings. Listening to this makes me wish I was still in my high school big band, so that I might get a chance to play some of Curnow's charts!

Good Buy.......2006-03-17

I really enjoyed this CD. I love the music of Pat Metheny and the big band arrangements on the album are great. Personal favourites are "Minuano" and "Have You Heard." Reccomend for anyone that enjoys a more serious big band and not the poxy Glenn Miller sound.

Current, fresh, and it swings.........2005-05-15

This is a rich CD that you can listen to over and over again.
My favorite is Always and Forever where Bobby Shew's flugelhorn is funky and beautiful. Every Summer Night is light and interesting with a rhythm that moves it along. In Her Family is haunting.
The rhythms and orchestrations still sound fresh after over a decade.
Although I have not been a Pat Metheny fan nor a fan of the guitar in jazz, this music goes beyond just soft jazz that one hears in an elevator...
Is it a curse or a blessing that jazz is being picked up for background use? Just when we thought younger listeners would delve into the richness of Miles, Ella, Kenton, Gil Evans and Basie after being exposed to jazz, I hear it dismissed as dental office music !!
This is a richly orchestrated CD that supplies a strong background for soloists like Shew and Bill Cunliffe.
One can hear Curnow's roots in the Kenton orchestra and as has been mentioned before.."Is this CD what Kenton might have been doing now?"
Incredibly interesting rhythms and a great rhythm section to execute them.

Hits both ends of the spectrum.......2005-01-22

On a first listening to this cd, it was wonderful, and gets a bit better each time you re-listen.

Most of the charts were good, some, like Minuano, Dream of the Return and In Her Family were excellent.
The one that really blew me away was If I Could, which doesnt suffer at all compared to the original Metheny version.

I did find some VERY lacking. Letter From Home, which was always my favourite ballad from the original album, has absolutely no feeling in it. It seemed straightforward, and very dead, missing all the emotion Mays put into it.

Overall great arrangements by Curnow, and with the exception of Letter From Home, an Excellent CD. I would reccomend buying it.

What Stan Kenton should've sounded like all along.......2005-01-22

Well, the obvious antecedent is Gil Evans's big-band orchestrations of those Jimi Hendrix tunes. But whereas Gil's record was a big fat dud, Curnow's record is a brilliantly brilliant demonstration of brilliance. The sheer sonic texture of this record is flabbergasting. Thank God that Bob lived long enough to make this record.

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