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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
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Subject: Re: a sheaf of album reviews, most Jazz [actually about Pat Metheny]
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 16:52:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 16:52:03 1984
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I am afraid that the problem with Metheny is actually Lyle Mays, who is:
	a. Not a very good keyboardist
	b. A worse composer
	c. encourages Metheny's worse tendencies, which are no play a lot
	   of pretty notes that dissolves into wisps of cotton candy the minute
	   you try to bite into them (e.g. listen hard)
Metheny's albums without Lyle Mays ("Bright Size Life", "80/81" and "Rejoicing")are uniformly interesting; i don't think he understands Ornette as much as
he thinks he does, but that's part of what makes it interesting.
On the other hand, his albums with Mays seem to seamlessly blend
one into another. Where's the beef??????????

It don't mean a thing if it aint go that swing
Marcel Simon
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