Images of Metheny
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Composer: Pat MethenyComposer: Jason Vieaux
Edition: Music CD
Published: 2005
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Azica
Soundtracks:
- Every Day (I Thank You)
- Farmer's Trust
- Always and Forever
- Last Train (Prelude)
- Antonia (Allemande)
- Tell Her You Saw Me (Chaconne)
- Question and Answer (Gavotte and Double)
- James (Gigue)
- Letter from Home
- The Road to You
- In Her Family
- Message to a Friend
- The Bat (Tremolo-Etude)
Music reviews of Images of Metheny
Music Review: Metheny and Bach don't really mix
Rating: 4 Stars
Jason Vieaux's Images of Metheny is a very ambitious project for such an established classical guitarist as Vieaux is. To dedicate a whole album to a jazz-fusion-newage musician like Metheny may cause some of his stiffer, conservative, classical-purist fans to question his legitamacy. For the most part, Vieaux works wonders on this recording. Not only does he stay true to the tradition of classical guitar, but also captures the character of Metheny's music and the style that he plays it in. I've always really liked Vieaux's very sensitive approach to the guitar. It seems like so often, guitarists try to impress their audiences with speed and pyrotechnics. Vieaux is different. He has such a light touch and delicate approach to playing the guitar which really reflects his musicality and impresses me far more than the guitarists who insist on playing everything fast. This approach makes his style of playing perfect for an album of Metheny covers. I actually like some of the solo guitar work on this album better than what Metheny himself did on "One Quiet Night." His transcription of "Every Day (I Thank You)" is especially captivating as well as his transcription of "Always and Forever." You can hear the inflection, harmonies and phrasing practically just as Metheny would have played them himself. His "Letter from Home" is beautiful and a very intimate contrast to the classical guitar quartet version recorded by the LAGQ on their "Guitar Heroes" album. "The Road to You" is full of beautiful sonorities and punchy rhythm that scream Metheny. "In Her Family" is incredibly expressive and dynamically exciting. Vieaux's "Message to a Friend" is also very well interpreted.
Where the album falters is when Vieaux tries to transpose Metheny's music into a Baroque context. While he has done something incredibly creative to take new age jazz and make it into a completely different context, it doesn't really work to hear Metheny's music with Baroque ornamentation and rhythmic variations to suggest different styles of Baroque dance. For one who has not heard the original, the music does not sound even sound like Metheny. It really just sounds like Bach with a few really funky chords that are out of the context of Bach's era. Metheny and Baroque mix about as well as oil and water.
However, Metheny's music doesn't always suffer when put into a classical context. "The Bat" is played as a tremolo study and actually works quite well. It doesn't distort Metheny's sound, and actually adds a little bit of Spanish flare as well. What Vieaux has to realize is that much of the time, Metheny's music really just plays itself on a solo classical gutiar and doesn't really need to have anything added to make it "classical." Occasionally, a little bit of classical flare is all that is needed. This album is very solid aside from the Baroque Suite idea, which actually plays quite well, it just isn't really Metheny at all.
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