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The Pat Metheny Songbook - A New Jazz Canon, Part 1
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This week we launch a series of episodes that, from time to time, we'll look at the work of contemporary jazz players as composers, rather than performers, from
Tim Berne
saxophone, altob.1954
Geri Allen
piano1957 - 2017
Bill Frisell
guitar, electricb.1951
Carla Bley
piano1938 - 2023
John Zorn
saxophone, altob.1953
Brad Mehldau
pianob.1970
We are starting this series with
Pat Metheny
guitarb.1954
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" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00Ben Allison
bass, acoustic
b.1966- " data-original-title="" title="">Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band "Every Summer Night" Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays (MAMA) 0:16
- Host talks 7:17
" data-original-title="" title="">Kurt Elling "Minuano" Man In the Air (feat. Laurence Hobgood & Stefon Harris) (Blue Note) 9:59Kurt Elling
vocals
b.1967- Cristiano Stocchetti Quartet "Travels" Travels (Robin Hood) 17:47
- Host talks 22:59
" data-original-title="" title="">Kevin Mahogany "Free" Another Time Another Place (Warner) 24:35Kevin Mahogany
vocals
1958 - 2017
" data-original-title="" title="">Billy Drummond "The Bat" Dubai (Criss Cross) 29:34Billy Drummond
drums
b.1959
" data-original-title="" title="">George Colligan "Better Days Ahead" Return to Copenhagen (SteepleChase) 34:16George Colligan
multi-instrumentalist
b.1969- Host talks 38:38
- Orion Saxophone Quartet "Jaco (feat. Gary Foster)" Among Friends (feat. Gary Foster) (Tapestry) 41:21
- Jason Vieaux "In Her Family" Images of Metheny (Azica) 47:10
" data-original-title="" title="">Paul Motian Trio "Kathelin Gray" Motian in Tokyo (JMT) 50:29Paul Motian
drums
1931 - 2011- Host talks 57:21
- " data-original-title="" title="">Mario Stantchev "James" Autumn Leaves in Sofia (Gega) 58:56
" data-original-title="" title="">John Law "Unquity Road" Re-Creations, Vol. 2 (33 Jazz) 1:04:30John Law
piano
" data-original-title="" title="">Moncef Genoud Trio "John McKee (Pat Metheny)" It's You (Dinemic Jazz) 1:08:34Moncef Genoud
piano
b.1961- Host talks 1:13:52
" data-original-title="" title="">Ahn Trio "Yuryung" Blue (Self-released) 1:15:55Ahn Trio
band / ensemble / orchestra
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Cristiano Stocchetti
Kevin Mahogany
Billy Drummond
George Colligan
Orion Saxophone Quartet
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Moncef Genoud
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