Still Life (Talking)

Pat Metheny - Still Life (Talking)

Still Life (Talking)
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Artist: Pat Metheny
Brand: NONESUCH RECORDS
Edition: Music CD
Music CD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
Published: 2006
CD Release Date: 2011-09-20
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
  1. Minuando (Six Eight)
  2. So May It Secretly Begin
  3. Last Train Home
  4. (It's Just) Talk
  5. Third Wind
  6. Distance
  7. In Her Family

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Music Review: This one is so good it should be in the Smithsonian!
Rating: 5 Stars

To say that this is a landmark album is not, in my opinion, an overstatement in any way. This album was pivotal for PMG. It marked their departure from the stricture of ECM's somewhat repressive "get in, lay down the tracks and get out" recording practices and their debut on David Geffen's label. One of the first and few jazz bands to record for Geffen, PMG were catapulted, almost overnight, onto a much larger stage to rave reviews and sold out tour dates. If I were to voice a criticism of this album it would be that it just isn't long enough. This is the musical equivalent of the perfect summer sunset at the beach. You just don't want it to end. It's just that good!

It is 1987 and once again, nearly a decade after my conversion as a Jazz fan with the first "Group" album, I am rendered speechless and I feel a chill run down my spine. Just like the first time that saw Vincent van Gogh's "Irises" in a museum instead of a book, I am amazed. From the anticipatory departure of Minuano to the mystery and sensuousness of "So It May Secretly Begin," through the Evocative chugging, throbbing emotion of "Last Train Home" then the controlled blast of "Third Wind" and eventually settling down to the last flickering embers of "In Her Family." The experience was visceral and revelatory. I instantly replayed the entire album. I've been hitting the replay button on this one now for over twenty years. It is still the only album that I must listen to at least two or three times before I can move on to something else. I defy you to listen to this album once and not be compelled to hear it again immediately, if for no other reason than simply to listen, in shear amazement, to the blistering (yet somehow cool and understated) solo of "Third Wind." I'm listening to to it now as I write this and once again the hair on the back of my neck is standing up. This band is so tight it almost makes your ears pop!

I still play this for my few uninitiated friends who love to make fun of that "jazz stuff" that I listen to. I crank the volume as my captive listener is assailed with yet another of my "crazy jazz tunes." They smile and nod wearily. They indulge me as they would an overly enthusiastic child, but slowly, as Pat's irrepressibly buoyant and joyful fret work begins to cast it's melodic spell (you can almost hear him smiling as he plays) a change starts to come over them. Lyle's shimmering piano solos transcend their patronization. Paul Wertico and Steve Rodby loosen their resistance with their tight rhythms. Armando Marcal shakes the bones of all those wonderful percussive toys and David Blamires and Mark Ledford contribute their remarkable vocal work... and then... it happens; I watch bemused as the once reticent listener, almost against their will, begins to be seduced by this wonderful music. I watch as their toe or finger starts to tap, their head starts to bob slightly, almost absentmindedly and then, as "Last Train Home" rolls into the station, it's all over but the shouting. Forget about it... By the time "In Her Family" comes to an end I'm indulging their new found enthusiasm for jazz with a smile and a nod.

This is one for the books my friends.
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