(Contemporary Jazz) Pat Metheny - Trio 99 -> 00 (w / Larry Grenadier & Bill Stewart) - 2000, FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

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# Original Release Date: February 7, 2000
# Release Date: February 8, 2000
# Label: Warner Jazz
# Copyright: 2000 Metheny Group Productions
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Think "Pat Metheny trio record" and you'll probably recall his groundbreaking Bright Size Life or the more abstract Rejoicing (with Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins) or even Question and Answer (Dave Holland, Roy Haynes). Well, keep thinking. Trio 99-00 is the popular guitarist-composer's most straight-ahead, no-muss, no-fuss recording yet. Recorded over two days with the remarkable team of drummer Bill Stewart and bassist Larry Grenadier, Trio 99-00 covers much compositional and stylistic ground but is essentially a hard-bop-tinged blowing session. Metheny's Sonny Rollins-ish originals include "(Go) Get It," "Soul Cowboy" (featuring amazing chordal guitar), "What Do You Want?" and a blazing trio variation on "Lone Jack," which appeared on the first Pat Metheny Group album. Unusual choices are made throughout: a sensually swinging "Giant Steps," an elegant "A Lot of Livin' to Do," and inclusion of Wayne Shorter's queasy gem, "Capricorn." And as always, Pat can't help but get sentimental on acoustic guitar, culminating in the first studio rendition of "Travels." This isn't for the faint-hearted, nor those waiting for another PMG travelogue like We Live Here or Letter from Home. This is pure jazz slam, a trio showdown with the gloves off. --Ken Micallef
Customer Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars - The best Trio record of the year - Metheny's best ever!, March 11, 2000
By: A Customer
I have always enjoyed Metheny's trio records, but this is by far his best one. His rapport with Grenadier and Stewart is at the highest level. I have a feeling that some people will be more impressed with people like Haden, Higgins, Haynes or Holland because of their names, but make no mistake about it, these younger players are the major guys of THEIR generation. Pastorius was unknown when he showed up on Bright Size Life and now he is a legend and people talk about him like he was always like that - and when BSL came out he went almost unnoticed. It will be like that with Bill Stewart on this record - in the future people will talk about his performance on Trio 99/00 as a seminal moment in jazz drumming and interaction with a soloist. As far as Metheny goes - his playing and level of pure inspriation has never been higher that on this recording. There is just so much going on it is hard to know where to begin. His time feeling, his incredible melodic sophistication, the adventurousness of his lines, everything add up to a new standard being set for jazz guitar. But for the highlights are the new Metheny compositions. There are more great new Metheny "jazz" tunes here than on any of his other records. Already I am hearing people play three songs from this record live - the two blues tunes Soul Cowboy and Go Get it and the rhythm changes tune What do You Want. They are much better compositions than either BSL or Q and A. If I had to recommend just one Metheny record to someone who wanted to check what the guy can do with a guitar in his hands, this would be it. I would give it more stars if I could!
5.0 out of 5 stars - Metheny at his absolute best, most vital, March 21, 2000
By: Ailer (chicago)
Metheny is possibly the greatest jazz guitarist ever. And I say that with full knowledge of all the Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Grant Green, Django records ever made. High praise? Yes, indeed - but this record is the capper to a 10 year string of sensational releases that Metheny has put together in his recorded output that outrank just about any musician of this era.
With this record, Metheny brings a harmonic and rhythmic ingenuity to his instrument that has eluded just about everyone else. Of his generation, only John Scofield has come close to acheiving this level of improvisational sophistication - but even with Sco, there is a humanity missing somehow; his work is intriquing and oh so interesting, but Metheny always retains the human touch and warm round sound that puts him in that higher echelon with Wes and the others.
My contention that he has surpassed them with this release is based on the fact that the actual improvised melodies that Metheny comes up with with this record remain indelibly crammed into my cranium. To take a tune with a tempo as fast as the first tune, Go Get It, and play song like phrases is the kind of stuff only acheived by greats like Clifford Brown or Sonny Rollins, almost never by a guitarist. (but Joe Pass could come close) Also, the compositions are almost guaranteed to become standards, they are that good - it is easy to imagine that What Do You Want, Soul Cowboy and The Sun In Montreal will become staples of the next generation of musicians.
Also, the rhythm section of Grenadier and Stewart is perfectly matched to Metheny, and though they may not be the big names of today, they will be the Haynes/Higgins/Holland/Hadens of the next years, no doubt.
This is Metheny's best non-group project ever. Better than Song X (a classic), the duet records with Hall and Haden (classics) or his many recent sideman projects. I am even recommending to people who ask me for suggestions that this be their FIRST PM record - something i used to suggest Bright Size Life for.

"(Go) Get It" won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo.
For this set, Pat Metheny once again took time out of his busy schedule as a contemporary jazz superstar to take a straight-ahead trio into the studio for a day of casual blowing. Like his other previous efforts in this vein, QUESTION AND ANSWER and REJOICING, Metheny gets back to what he does best and lets it all hang out with partners Larry Grenadier and Bill Stewart. What's most impressive is that there was never any intent to make a record; it was merely a set-up-and-play atmosphere when these three virtuosos grabbed a couple of days to enjoy the act of making great music together.
From the outset it is obvious that Metheny came to play his best as he sets the music ablaze with the opening burner "(Go) Get It." Stewart and Grenadier are the perfect match for Metheny's legendary musicianship as the trio covers a wide range of stylistic extremes, from the acoustic nebula of "Just Like The Day" to Wayne Shorter's harmonically offbeat "Capricorn." Metheny even covers himself with a fiery reading of his previously recorded gem "Lone Jack" and the unforgettably melodic "Travels." Of special note is the trio's slow and groovy take on the Coltrane classic "Giant Steps."
Recorded at Right Track Recording, New York, New York in August 1999.
Pat Metheny Trio: Pat Metheny (guitar); Larry Grenadier (acoustic bass); Bill Stewart (drums).
Personnel: Pat Metheny (baritone guitar); Bill Stewart (snare drum).
Recording information: Right Tracks Recording, New York, NY (1999).Entertainment Weekly (2/11/00, p.75) - "...his guitar-diety status remains intact...Metheny indulges in straight...jazz mode, and the airwaves are better for it...clever as it is musical." - Rating: B+
CMJ (2/28/00, p.33) - "...Metheny creates a mesmerizing, straight-ahead album that spotlights every component of Methany's familiar guitar style..."
Down Beat (8/00, pp.69-70) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Wide open form interpretation and improv....The air is fresh here, and Metheny and his significantly younger bandmates give themselves plenty of breathing room..."
JazzTimes (5/00, p.118) - "...A master of melodic improv, Metheny spews endless streams of ideas at all tempos...flowing over the bar line with that perfect yin-yang of total command and complete abandon....A stellar trio date...one remarkable guitarist."

These new tunes, like their predecessors on the earlier trio records, will no doubt become modern jazz standards, much the way tunes like Bright Size Life and Question and Answer have become. Metheny says, "We finished our tour in Istanbul. We had two days off before we were going to convene in New York to record, so I locked myself in a room for a day, and thinking of all the things that I really loved about playing with Bill and Larry, wrote five new tunes. The tunes just flowed out. They are basically the kind of "blowing tunes" that set up a vibe where the improvisation has a context and a starting point, but can be played a million different ways from night to night. Also, for some reason, I have always loved the tune, I've Got a Lot of Livin' to Do from the musical Bye, Bye Birdie, so I wrote an arrangement of that one for those guys that honestly doesn't really have a lot to do with the original at this point, but sounds how I always imagined that tune sounding in this kind of a setting."
Although Metheny has often recorded the music of the great jazz composer Ornette Coleman over the years, Trio 99>00 also offers something that Metheny watchers have never heard on one of his own albums; Metheny versions of compositions by two of the major saxophonist/composers of the 60's; Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane.
"Capricorn is a Wayne Shorter tune that I have always loved but don't recall ever hearing anyone else play. Giant Steps is, of course, the John Coltrane composition that I think I have now heard everyone else play. It is simply one of the most inspiring pieces of musical architecture of the century. Usually I hear everyone kind of race through it, playing it really fast (the tune seems to really like that way of getting played) but my take on it here was to do more like the style of one of my own tunes, slower, with a little more opportunity to linger on the implications of each chord change. I added a bridge as a release device which kind of breaks it up some. Even though it's slower than usual here, I wanted it to have a sense of movement and that kind of wave-like thing that those chords suggest, so there is a lot of doubling up on the changes, even early on in the solo. But that is a tune you could play like a foxtrot and it would still be hip, there is just so much built into it."
In recent years, with projects such as Beyond the Missouri Sky with Charlie Haden and his score for the recent, critically-acclaimed movie, A Map of the World, Metheny has continued to develop a sound on the acoustic guitar that is as distinctive as it is personal. There are three Metheny compositions that feature his excellent acoustic guitar playing on TRIO 99>00.
"Each of the three acoustic guitar tunes are different. One of the best parts about playing with Larry and Bill is the stylistic range they have. Like a lot of younger players, style is just not an issue. I wanted to take advantage of that flexibility and write something that was quite different than the more swing-based grooves that most of the music was leaning towards. We had played a bunch of concerts in Italy (which is probably my favorite place on earth to play) and I wanted to write a piece that captured the beauty and joy of our week traveling around the country, playing gigs in these amazing places and that also had Larry and Bill playing in a very simple, almost folk-like way. That tune became Just Like The Day, a piece where the low note of the guitar is dropped down a whole step to D to give Larry and I a chance to form an ensemble part at the bottom that the tune is based on.
We Had A Sister is a piece that I wrote for Joshua Redman's debut album, Wish. I had always wanted to record my own version of this tune and here it becomes almost like a piano trio version of the piece. Because of the dense harmonic structure of the tune, I found myself playing a lot of chords in the improvised section to keep the clarity of the structure intact-not something I am normally inclined to do, even in a trio.
And Travels is simply one of my favorite tunes to come from the writing partnership that I have enjoyed for so many years with Lyle Mays. There has never been a studio recording of this tune - it only exists on the live record "Travels" - it happens to lay well on the guitar harmonically, and again, it is a groove that both Larry and Bill are fantastic at playing".
SOURCE - http://www.patmetheny.com/features/trio99/comp.html