Pat Metheny is a baaad motherfucker. I love Pat Metheny’s music, especially his work from 1978 to 2002. This is for those of you who need to know. Understand this: Metheny is to guitar what Kid (of Kid ‘n Play) was to the hi-top fade.
On March 30, 1970 Columbia Records released Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and in doing so one door opened while another door closed. As he had been at the turn of the previous two decades, Miles was again on the scene, integrally involved in defining the new jazz paradigm...
I generally like and respect author, jazz critic and pugnacious bomb-thrower, Stanley Crouch. Anyone who speaks truth to power as lustily as he does is my dog.
The generation of boppers after Bird didn't merely beebop they hard bopped and in so doing flung back the curtain on a brave new world.
