Pat Metheny : the ECM years, 1975-1984 / by Cooke, Mervyn

Pat Metheny : the ECM years, 1975-1984 / by Cooke, Mervyn

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The Pat Metheny interviews : the inner workings of his creativity revealed /

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Beneath Missouri skies : Pat Metheny in Kansas City, 1964-1972 / by Brewer, Carolyn Glenn

Table of Contents: “…Before: The Beatles and the Ed Sullivan Show -- Miles Davis at Lincoln Center Philharmonic Hall and the recording of Four and More -- Chapter One: Pat's musical awakening -- Opposition to the Guitar -- musical heritage of Lee's Summit -- Unity Band -- Keith House -- Chapter Two: First Band Camp -- The Junior Kix Band -- Paul Smith -- The New Sounds Trio Plus -- Westvale Summer -- John McKee -- Chapter Three: Kansas City Comeback in the Sixties -- Kix Band -- Jingles -- The Buddy DeFranco Concert -- Chapter Four: The Kansas City Jazz Incorporated Festivals -- The Flaming Pit -- Chapter Five: New Sounds, New Directions -- Dave Scott Meets Miles -- Jesus Christ Superstar -- Monte Muza -- Long Playing 33 1/3 Records -- The Other Side of Town-And The Atlantic -- John Elliott -- Chapter Six: New Influences, New gigs -- The KCJI Festival Tape -- Tommy Ruskin -- Chapter Seven: Kay Dennis -- The Landmark Band -- KCJI Festival With Kay Dennis -- Gary Sivils -- Chapter Eight: The Ramada Inn Gig -- A Place to Sit In -- Herman Bell -- Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Russ Long -- Visit to Attila Zoller -- Mike in the Army Band -- Chapter Nine: Four -- The Aquarius Concerts -- Stoneface -- Dean Stringer Rehearsal Band -- Chapter Ten: Landmark Mini-Festival -- Kookin' in Kirksville -- KCJI Festival -- The Tooth Brush -- Concert in the Creek -- Chapter Eleven: The College Question -- Trio Jam -- Herbie -- Chapter Twelve: Reflections on the Influence of Kansas City Jazz Musicians on Pat Metheny's Teenage -- Years -- After Missouri Skies -- Appendix: The Kansas City Jazz Scene -- Herman Bell -- David Belove -- Vince Bilardo -- Kevin Clements -- Jess Cole -- Carol Comer -- Kay Dennis -- Warren Durrett -- Rod Fleeman -- David Glenn -- John Hatton -- Russ Long -- Arch Martin -- Marilyn Maye -- John McKee -- Mike Metheny -- Monte Muza -- Dru Rachaner -- Ron Roberts -- Tommy Ruskin -- Dave Scott -- Gary Sivils -- Paul Smith -- Neal Stone -- Dean Stringer -- Bobby Watson -- Rob Whitsitt -- Brooks Wright -- Author's Note -- Endnotes.…”
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The jazz guitar : its evolution and its players / by Summerfield, Maurice J., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Barney Kessel -- Its evolution: the blues -- New Orleans -- Dixieland -- Chicago -- Kansas City -- Swing -- Be bop -- Modern/West Coast -- Cool -- Bossa nova -- Avant garde (jazz/rock/soul/Indo/African/free) -- Its players: John Abercrombie -- Oscar Aleman -- Laurindo Almeida -- Irving Ashby -- ELek Bacsik -- Derek Bailey -- Mickey Baker -- Dave Barbour -- Danny Barker -- Everett Barksdale -- George Barnes -- Billy Bauer -- Billy Bean -- George Benson -- Skeeter Best -- Ed Bickert --Luiz Bonfa -- Boulou -- Lenny Breau -- Big Bill Broonzy -- Dennis Budimir -- Teddy Bunn -- Kenny Burrell -- Billy Butler -- Charlie Byrd -- Al Casey -- Philip Catherine -- Pierre Cavalli -- Charlie Christian -- John Collins -- Eddie Condon -- Larry Coryell -- Bill De Arango -- Al Di Meola -- Joe Diorrio -- Sacha Distel -- Eddie Durham -- Herb Ellis -- Bus Etri -- Frank Evans -- Tal Farlow -- Al Gaffa -- Slim Gaillard -- Barry Galbraith -- Dick Garcia -- Hank Garland -- Arv Garrison -- Jimmy Gourley -- Freddie Green -- Grannt Green -- Tiny Grimes -- Marty Grosz -- Fred Guy -- Jerry Hahn -- Jim Hall -- Bill Harris -- Al Hendrickson -- Michael Howell -- Ike Isaacs -- Lonnie Johnson -- Barney Kessel -- Earl Klugh -- Carl Kress -- Nappy Lamare -- Eddie Lang -- Mundell Lowe -- Ivor Mairants -- Jack Marshall -- Pat Martino -- Carmen Mastrn -- Dick McDonough -- John McLaughlin -- Pat Metheny -- Wes Montgomery -- Oscar Moore -- Mary Osborne -- Remo Palmier -- Joe Pass -- Les Paul -- John Pisano -- Bucky Pizzarelli -- Baden Powell -- Joe Puma -- Snoozer Quinn -- Jimmy Raney -- Ernest Ranglin -- Django Reinhardt -- Allan Reuss -- Lee Ritenour -- Tony Rizzi -- Howard Roberts -- Terje Rypdal -- Johnny St. …”

Music and the creative spirit : innovators in jazz, improvisation, and the avant garde / by Peterson, Lloyd, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Ware -- Otomo Yoshihide -- John Zorn -- Pat Metheny : closing.…”
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Jazz matters : sound, place, and time since bebop / by Ake, David Andrew, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Being (and becoming) John Coltrane: listening for jazz "subjectivity" -- Musicology beyond the score and the performance: making sense of the creak on Miles Davis's "Old Folks" -- Sex mob and the carnivalesque in postwar jazz -- Race, place and nostalgia after the counterculture: Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny on ECM -- Rethinking jazz education -- Negotiating national identity among American jazz musicians in Paris.…”
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The jazz ear : conversations over music / by Ratliff, Ben

Table of Contents: “…: Wayne Shorter -- Street music : Pat Metheny -- Jazz means freedom : Sonny Rollins -- As good as you think : Andrew Hill -- I know who you are : Ornette Coleman -- The flying modulation : Maria Schneider -- You've got to finish your thought : Bob Brookmeyer -- It's your spirit : Dianne Reeves -- Head of a dog : Bebo Valdes -- This is my point : Joshua Redman -- Labor history : Hank Jones -- Dancing from up here : Roy Haynes -- Head to toes : Paul Motian -- A million just like it : Branford Marsalis -- You don't look for style : Guillermo Klein.…”

Jazz matters : sound, place, and time since bebop / by Ake, David Andrew, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Race, place, and nostalgia after the counterculture : Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny on ECM ; Rethinking jazz education ; Negotiating national identity among American jazz musicians in Paris.…”

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Secrets from the masters : conversations with forty great guitar players /

Table of Contents: “…Duane Allman -- Chet Atkins -- Jeff Beck -- Chuck Berry -- Larry Carlton -- Eric Clapton -- Ry Cooder -- Duane Eddy -- The Edge -- Tal Farlow -- Jerry Garcia -- Billy Gibbons -- David Gilmour -- Jim Hall -- George Harrison -- Michael Hedges -- Jimi Hendrix -- Allan Holdsworth -- Mark Knofler -- Yngwie Malmsteen -- John McLaughlin -- Pat Metheny -- Wes Montgomery -- Steve Morse -- Jimmy Page -- Les Paul -- Carl Perkins -- Vernon Reid -- Keith Richards -- Carlos Santana -- Joe Satriani -- John Scofield -- Andres Segovia -- Andy Summers -- Pete Townshend -- Steve Vai -- Eddie Van Halen -- Stevie Ray Vaughn -- Frank Zappa.…”

Nearness of you : the ballad book / by Brecker, Michael

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Masters of jazz guitar /

Table of Contents: “…The guitar breaks through / Tony Russell -- Masters of rhythm / Richard Cook -- Soloists of the swing era / Brian Priestley -- Django Reinhardt / Max Harrison -- Charlie Christian / Dave Gelly -- Swing to bop / Stan Britt -- The bebop masters / Stan Britt -- The cool sound / Alun Morgan -- Influence and confluence / John Fordham -- Wes Montgomery / Kenny Mathieson -- The hardboppers / John Fordham -- Joe Pass / John Fordham -- Fusion, the first wave / Stuart Nicholson -- Pat Metheny / Kenny Mathieson -- Fusion, the second wave / Mark Gilbert -- Shredding the frets / Mark Gilbert -- Brazilian guitar / John Zaradin -- The session players / Kenny Mathieson -- The deconstructionists / Stuart Nicholson -- The acoustic guitar in jazz / Charles Alexander -- The new mainstream / Kenny Mathieson -- The legacy of Django / Andy MacKenzie -- The British scene / Kenny Mathieson -- The European scene / Chris Burden -- The American scene / Charles Chapman.…”

By arrangements / by Hall, Jim, 1930-2013

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Gaia, the living planet : a portrait of James E. Lovelock /

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Wes Montgomery, Live in '65 by Montgomery, Wes, 1925-1968

Theatre noise : the sound of performance /

Table of Contents: “…Preface / Patrice Pavis -- Introduction / Lynne Kendrick and David Roesner -- Towards theatre noise / Ross Brown -- Sound reproduction techniques in theatre : a case of mediatic resistance / Jean-Mark Larrue -- Performing sound/sounding spaces / John Collins -- From musicalisation of theatre to musicality of film : Beckett's Play on stage and screen / Danijela Kulezic-Wilson -- Intrusive noises : the performative power of theatre sounds / Katharina Rost -- Towards a (negative) philosophy of voice / Alice Lagaay -- Vocal landscaping : the theatre of sound in audiowalks / Misha Myers -- Radical vocality, auditory distress and disembodied voice : the resolution of the voice-body in the Wooster Group's La Didone / Pieter Verstraete -- Aural acts : theatre and the phenomenology of listening / George Home-Cook -- The bewitched : Harry Partch and the liberation of enslaved musicians / Tim White -- Noises on : sights and sites of sound in Apollinaire's The breasts of Tiresias / Adrian Curtin -- Hear and now : how technologies have changed sound practices / Eric Vautrin -- The mechanics of noise : theatricality and the automated instrument in Heiner Goebbels' Theatre and Pat Metheny's Jazz / David Roesner -- Melodic intentions : speaking text in postdramatic dance theatre / Zachary Dunbar -- Applied aurality : noise and the aesthetics of access in Graeae's Reasons to be cheerful / Lynne Kendrick -- The sounds of hearing / Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux -- Noise, conceptual noise and the potential of audience participation / Gareth White -- All around the place : sound immersion and the theatre / Jeanne Bovet.…”
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The history of jazz / by Gioia, Ted

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Essential jazz : the first 100 years / by Martin, Henry, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Synthesizers -- The appeal of rock and funk -- The fusion music of Miles Davis : Miles Davis in the early 1970s -- Other fusion pioneers : Lifetime ; Mahavishnu Orchestra ; Herbie Hancock and Headhunters ; Chick Corea and Return to Forever ; Weather Report ; Pat Metheny…”

Jazz : the Smithsonian anthology.