80/81 (1980) ( )

Product Summary Label: Uni/ecm UPC: 00042284316927 Release Date: 2/29/2000 Buy.com Sku: 60388850 Item#: MQFK6K Buy.com Sales Rank: 25530 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Two Folk Songs: 1st / 2nd ~ Pat Metheny 2. 80/81 ~ Pat Metheny 3. Bat, The ~ Pat Metheny 4. Turnaround ~ Pat Metheny Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Open ~ Pat Metheny 2. Pretty Scattered ~ Pat Metheny 3. Every Day (I Thank You) ~ Pat Metheny 4. Goin' Ahead ~ Pat Metheny (P) 1980 ECM Records GmbH (C) 1980 ECM Records GmbH   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Originally released as two seperate LPs. Personnel: Pat Metheny (guitar); Dewey Redman, Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Charlie Haden (acoustic bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums). Recorded at Talent Studios, Oslo, Norway from May 26-29, 1980. Personnel: Pat Metheny (guitar, acoustic guitar); Michael Brecker (saxophone, tenor saxophone); Dewey Redman (tenor saxophone); Jack DeJohnette (drums, snare drum, cymbals). Recording information: Talent Studio, Oslo, Norway (05/26/1980-05/29/1980); Talent Studios, Oslo, Norway (05/26/1980-05/29/1980). Photographers: Rainer Drechsler; Dag Alveng. Unknown Contributor Role: Rainer Drechsler. Pat Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package, a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely continued pursuing their electric commercial successes. From the disbanded Keith Jarrett American quartet came bassist Charlie Haden and tenor Dewey Redman -- who alternates with and occasionally plays alongside tenor Michael Brecker -- and Jack DeJohnette provides more combustible drumming than Metheny had ever experienced on record before. Yet Metheny's off-kilter wandering on solo electric guitar is a comfortable fit for the post-bop rhythmic crosscurrents of this music. Indeed, Haden and Metheny are in total sympathy, perhaps celebrating their mutual Missouri roots, and Metheny's difficult "Pretty Scattered" -- which he mockingly described as "Guitar Revenge!" -- nearly manages to stump even Redman and Brecker. The first of the "Two Folk Songs" is a great example of the Metheny folk-jazz fusion, with furious strummed guitar underpinning Brecker's melodic line and excursions on the outside and DeJohnette's spectacular drums. Another remarkable track is "Open," a group improvisation that finds DeJohnette shaping the track's direction with a pushing solo and Metheny and the saxes emerging at the end. The two original LPs were organized so that the more distinctive Metheny fusions were on sides one and four and the overt jazz tracks occupied sides two and three. ~ Richard S. Ginell Producer: Manfred Eicher Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Musical Guests Charlie Haden Jack DeJohnette Michael Brecker Dewey Redman   Compilation Appearances Stone Free Jazz Central Station Smooth Sounds Vol. 1-Stars Of Jazz Out & Out Jazz Concord Records 30th Anniversary Box Acoustic Heart 2: passion And Romance Progressions:100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Offramp Guitar Music For Small Rooms 2 Essential Jaco Pastorius Modern Hymns Family and Friends: Rambling Boy Grandfather Paradox Quartet Live   Associated Artists and Works Brubeck, Dave Brubeck, Dave Burton, Gary Like Minds ~ Burton, Gary Burton, Gary Burton, Gary Quartet Live ~ Burton, Gary Burton, Gary Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) ~ Haden, Charlie Haden, Charlie Beyond The Missouri Sky ~ Haden, Charlie Hall, Jim Mitchell, Joni The Falcon And The Snowman ~ Original Soundtrack A Map of the World ~ Original Soundtrack Original Soundtrack Pastorius, Jaco Pastorius, Jaco I Can See Your House From Here ~ Scofield, John Scofield, John Wertico, Paul   Technical Info Release Date : 02/29/2000 Original Release Date : 1980 Catalog ID : 843169 Label : ECM Records (USA) Number of Discs : 2 Runtime : 80m : 25s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : AAD UPC : 00042284316927    Product Image