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Twentieth anniversary edition remastered with bonus tracks, enjoy!
Released in 1985, Song X was Pat Metheny's first recording for the
Geffen label. After a prosperous career with ECM, Metheny realized a
lifelong dream by collaborating with Ornette Coleman. (He had
previously collaborated with both bassist Charlie Haden (an Ornette
alumnus), and drummer Jack DeJohnette. A second drummer, Denardo
Coleman, was added for this session and adds immeasurably to the
rhythmic complexity of the music here.) Coleman had been a major
influence on Metheny's ideas about melody and harmony, as well as
space. Song X was the first of a number of deviations from the
guitarist and composer's trademark sound and direction. The pairing of
the two was jagged and startling when it was first issued. The
recording sent his traditional fans reeling and wondering if he'd gone
off his rocker. The resulting tour sent them streaming out of
auditoriums in droves. As Metheny explains in his liner notes, the CD
medium at the time was limited to about 48 minutes, and the choices
for the final package were made according to those limitations. Twenty
years later, CDs held 80 minutes of music, and Metheny not only
remastered and remixed the entire disc, he also tacked on six tracks
from the original sessions to the beginning of the disc, making the
Twentieth Anniversary Edition an almost entirely different offering
that becomes revelatory in its new context. The additional cuts were
all written by Coleman. His "Police People" opens the set. Haden's
bass figure introduces a lovely, celebratory, dual front-line melody
which is at once both knotty and euphoric. Metheny takes the first
solo, which follows his own lyrical path and makes his sound edgier
and his phrasing more complex with more notes in the frame. Coleman
immediately follows him, and turns the dialogue toward R&B. Metheny
takes the cue and, in a breathtaking gesture, strolls it out on the
ledge for him. "The Good Life" takes post-bop and Caribbean-kissed
melody and winds them together as Coleman and Metheny engage in
gorgeous counterpoint. Denardo's playing angles DeJohnette's and
pushes the soloists. "Word from Bird" adeptly showcases the band
strutting through tough mutant bop changes based in the blues and
offers up another helping of the kind of depth and dimension this band
was capable of reaching; the choices on Metheny's original release of
Song X didn't reflect his views at all. "Compute" is more complex,
denser, and yet utterly full of gorgeous interplay and driven
engagement. "The Veil" is almost like a film noir serial piece, all
nocturnal and smoky until it gets to the soloing, where contrapuntal
exchange becomes the M.O. And then, the original record known as Song
X begins -- its sound altered somewhat dramatically, its intensity
more focused and fervent, and its edges exposed. After the new
prelude, the session comes into full view, the attack and agenda
become clearer, more focused, more driven to explore not only
boundaries but also the insides of harmonic interplay and rhythmic
invention. Due to Haden's canny sense of time, both drummers are free
to explore and explode in the compositional frame; they go head to
head, and dovetail one another in response to the front-line soloing.
In sum, this is an entirely new album, one that not only warrants its
reissue but also demands an entirely new assessment as to the striking
success of this collaboration, and of its own place in the jazz canon.
http://www.patmethenygroup.com
Tracks:
01. Police People (4:57)
02. All Of Us (0:15)
03. The Good Life (3:25)
04. Word From Bird (3:48)
05. Compute (2:03)
06. The Veil (3:42)
07. Song X (5:34)
08. Mob Job (4:11)
09. Endangered Species (13:19)
10. Video Games (5:20)
11. Kathelin Gray (4:13)
12. Trigonometry (5:05)
13. Song X Duo (3:07)
14. Long Time No See (7:38)
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