“It’s nice to be back in sunny Toronto! Especially on this last day of summer [laughter]. It’s always great to come up here and it has been ever since the beginning.” Near the end of what appeared to be a sold out show at the 3,200 seat Sony Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Pat Metheny greeted…
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Birds of a Feather: Pat Metheny’s “New Chautauqua” & John Abercrombie’s “Characters”
Sometimes an album seems so unique that you can’t imagine anything else quite like it. Sometimes you’re wrong. After living with guitarist Pat Metheny’s 1979 recording New Chautauqua for decades as one of my favorite albums and thinking it created an aura, a mood, that no other artist had really explored, I recently (thanks to…
All Things Must Pass: The End of Vin Scelsa’s “Idiot’s Delight”
“Repect the elders. Embrace the new. Encourage the impractical and improbable, without bias.” These words, originally penned by music journalist David Fricke, were the guiding principles by which Vin Scelsa steered his long-running radio show “Idiot’s Delight”, which ends with Scelsa’s retirement on May 2nd. Scelsa’s close to 50-year career was the embodiment of “old…
Hot Potatoes: 10 (or 12) of the Best Guitar Albums
Sounding good in almost any genre of music, the guitar is capable of expressing a broad range of human emotion. It can be angry or celestial, confident or jittery, screaming or mellow. Strummed or picked, plugged or unplugged, the guitar has become the dominant world instrument. Here’s a selection of primarily instrumental guitar albums that…
2011: Favorites of the Year
This was going to be my top 10 favorite albums released in 2011, but it’s turned out to be 15. And why not? Why does everybody always have to do top 10 lists? Top 15 lists are better. Really. Here they are (in no particular order), with a sample track from each: A Hidden Wholeness,…
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