El Frijolito -> RE: santi lara, new album (Feb. 27 2016 19:48:56)
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If I can be permitted to hazard a guess... From my admittedly limited exposure to Metheny (I only own 'Bright Size Life' and 'Trio 99-00'), I'd suspect that some of the chord progressions he comes up with and some of the voicings he uses appeal to people grounded in flamenco harmony. Some of the titles in Stu's post are album titles ('Question and Answer' was the name of a comparatively straight-ahead jazz "standards" album Metheny recorded in the late 80s - I think 'Letter from Home' is an album title as well) - if you're going to reference the album titles or cover songs it makes a certain amount of sense to do so using the language of the original titles. Responding to the posts that try to characterize Metheny, from what I can tell Metheny is like jazz guitar's answer to Neil Young (who I don't care for) in that he seems to operate in a few different modes, apparently dependent on what he feels like doing. There's "ECM Metheny," "straight-ahead jazz" Metheny, "mellow acoustic" Metheny, "harmolodic" Metheny and probably a few other musical personalities kicking around in there.
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