Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: a sheaf of album reviews, most Jazz [actually about Pat Metheny] Message-ID: <157@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 16:52:03 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.157 Posted: Mon Dec 10 16:52:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 04:03:58 EST References: <15900008@hpcnoe.UUCP> <1263@utah-gr.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 14 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 mhuxr!mfs