Metheny: From This Place

It's been a while since he had a record, three years since The Unity Sessions and Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny, but here look Pat Metheny is back and heralding the release of his next album listen to the 13-minute plus 'America Undefined' drawn …

Published: 14 Nov 2019. Updated: 4 years.

It's been a while since he had a record, three years since The Unity Sessions and Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny, but here look Pat Metheny is back and heralding the release of his next album listen to the 13-minute plus 'America Undefined' drawn From This Place which is to be released on 21 February, something of a ''magic date'' on the calendar, 21.02.20 or 02.21.20 if you prefer.

With a lush, romantic, and yet decidedly pensive feel, the absorbing track was composed by Metheny and arranged by the guitarist and his pianist Gwilym Simcock brandishing an orchestral arrangement by Gil Goldstein.

Personnel on the track: Pat Metheny, guitars, keyboards, sound design; Antonio Sanchez, drums; Gwilym Simcock, piano; Linda May Han Oh, bass; Luis Conte, percussion with the Hollywood Studio Symphony conducted by Joel McNeely.

The album has ten compositions by Metheny. Album guests include Meshell Ndegeocello (vocals) and Grégoire Maret (harmonica).

Nonesuch quote Metheny: ''From This Place… is a kind of musical culmination, reflecting a wide range of expressions that have interested me over the years, scaled across a large canvas, presented in a way that offers the kind of opportunities for communication that can only be earned with a group of musicians who have spent hundreds of nights together on the bandstand."

Other track titles are: 'Wide and Far,' 'You Are,' 'Same River,' 'Pathmaker,' 'The Past in Us,' 'Everything Explained,' 'From This Place,' 'Sixty-Six,' and 'Love May Take Awhile.'

Update 5/12/19: 'You Are' featuring an orchestral arrangement by Alan Broadbent is above.

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Jazz gets a look-in as BMG launches the Modern Recordings label with Christian Kellersmann at the helm

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Multinational record company BMG are launching Modern Recordings billed in a press release as ''a label for new classical, jazz and electronic music, mostly instrumental but also extending to singer-songwriters.''

Berlin-based music executive Christian Kellersmann heads up the new label as Senior Vice President New Classics & Jazz.

The press release states: ''Before joining BMG in February 2019, Kellersmann made a significant impression on the music industry in his years in classical music and jazz at Universal Music in Germany. Key projects included the innovative classical club format 'Yellow Lounge', which he launched and ran for 12 years as well as the 'Recomposed' series in which British composer Max Richter notably reworked Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. His signings included platinum-selling Max Raabe, founder and leader of the Palast Orchester, and trumpeter Till Brönner. Kellersmann was also responsible for marketing campaigns for the likes of Anna Netrebko, Lang Lang, Melody Gardot, and Diana Krall. Following his departure from Universal, he launched the label Neue Meister at Edel and reactivated the German jazz label MPS.''