Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • New Zealand Listener

    Unchained melodies

    Mar 08, 2020 3 minutes
    by GRAHAM REID

    For more than 45 years, over as many albums and 20 Grammy awards, 65-year-old Pat Metheny established himself as the pre-eminent guitarist of his generation. That he’s not a household name isn’t just down to his chosen idiom – he’s nominally a jazz musician – but because he hasn’t made it easy for audiences.

    In his catalogue are sublime and commercially successful albums – notably as the Pat Metheny Group with keyboard player/co-composer Lyle Mays – but also the mid-80s Song X with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, described by UK critic Richard Williams as “practically unlistenable”.

    There’s the solo outing of guitar noise of 1994, acclaimed by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth as “the most radical recording of this decade … searing, soothing twisted shards of action guitar/thought process”.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from New Zealand Listener

    New Zealand Listener1 min read
    10 Quick Questions
    ❑ Madonna ❑ Taylor Swift ❑ Blondie ❑ Lady Gaga ❑ Paris ❑ Lyon ❑ Orléans ❑ Montreal ❑ Julius Caesar ❑ Hamlet ❑ Cymbeline ❑ Romeo and Juliet ❑ Beatrice ❑ Eugenie ❑ Charlotte ❑ Louisa ❑ Animals ❑ Trains ❑ Plants ❑ Microbiology ❑ Oste
    New Zealand Listener2 min read
    Seeing Red In Church Road
    Lying at the foot of the Taradale hills in Hawke’s Bay, Church Road has since 1990 crafted a host of classy, often great-value, wines. Money helps – the winery is owned by Paris-based Pernod Ricard, one of the world’s largest wine and spirits produce
    New Zealand Listener4 min read
    Good Lord, He Was Scandalous
    by Andrew Stauffer (Cambridge University Press, $50 hb, ebook) Two hundred years ago, on April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died unexpectedly in Greece. Banished from British society for his shocking behaviour towards his wife, Byron had settled in Italy, b

    Related Books & Audiobooks