AHEM! It's simple people. These are two REALLY GOOD musicians, playing REALLY HARD to write and play music. May explain why many of you don't feel anything? Just a wild guess as to this set of reactions.
It doesn't even matter, they had fun, so did the audience. It's like walking past a great chef's master creation and saying "oh no, i'm not hungry, I just ate a burger". You don't do anything for food, humanity, hunger, the chef, or yourself. You just play picky with delicious food.
@upT3mpo Yes but food is only as good as it tastes. If I don't like it what do I care that the chef slaved for 3 hours to make it? Delicious is an opinion, not a fact. Same with music. It could be crafted lovingly by master musicians, but if I don't like it, I don't like it, and that's my opinion, which is just as valid as yours or anybody else's.
Whilst I acknowledge that they are both great musicians I cannot get into this genre of music at all. It's horses for courses I'm afraid and strangely enough it sounds like one is on Aintree and one is at Chester.
I can understand some of the reactions here : you know, Bach wrote "the Art of Fugue" which is abstract music -or no music at all as some would say- and on the other hand some other well-known things that are much more enjoyable to the common beings. But what I know is that Schubert never ever composed music for musicians and is he not one of the greatest of all times ? (You've guessed what's my opinion towards this duo)
Well, I actually enjoy being blown away by their musicality and it's interesting and very inspiring for me to try to analyze and figure out what they are doing and then even apply it myself in my own playing :)
Most jazz musicians I've met are proud of the music they play and listen to jazz from it's earliest inceptions. Ask yourself how much jazz you are really knowledgable about and that should tell you what your real interest is. If you are interested and have listened then these guys use of polyrhythic ideas will blow you away. Historical context is a key to appreciating what's happening now.
Ugh can people stop calling this "technical"? Not saying their take isn't totally out there because it is, and both of them can swing way harder than any of us ever could, to the point where they can suspend it for 30 seconds or longer and come back without missing a beat, but calling it "technical" makes it sound trivial or less musical than it is.
And for those who don't think that they are swinging here, or to quote mfblown, "just noodling", um....what? Are we listening to the same thing?
..when white guys play swing. Groovin boys, groovin. Following that form was fun. Now lets get a little splang-a-lang going shall we? Folks do want to tap some feet afterall. Nevertheless, this is what i transcribe when the rest of the world goes to sleep, and it's just me and my brain still awake. The listening quotient here is peerless. That's got to count for something right? What else will all the white, 19-year-old, male jazz college majors shout "whoo!" to when they get together?
@007Bimbo1 A: That's not a saying. Not an adage, not a nugget of Confucian wisdom; you just made it up. Please for the love of God, people on Youtube, PLEASE stop posting your own opinions in the form of "Proverbial Prose." It doesn't make it any less stupid, it makes it worse. Only deities, elves, and screenwriters for Lord of the Rings movies speak like that. For anyone else it's just embarrassing.
Just great, the better my ear get, the more I realize how ingenius this is. The Concept isn't new, sure, but this is kinda the simpliest way for concept-improvisation and got the highest degree of improvised elements and offers the greatest room for communication. So... u can't judge this, it's just a matter of being able to hear and to understand :) but first, u have to believe that this is great and to want to understand it.
It´s true Meheny can bring both feeling and theorethical goods, I was more familiar with that side of him and I had not seen his virtuoso side. Still amazes me anyway how these guys produce the sounds they do and, honestly I´ve picked up chops watching free-style musicians as well. Being a bass player I guess I´m more after the beat than long lines.
It´s true Meheny can bring both feeling and theorethical goods, I was more familiar with that side of him and I had not seen his virtuoso side. Still amazes me anyway how these guys produce the sounds they do and, honestly I´ve picked up chops watching free-style musicians as well. Being a bass player I guess I´m more after the beat than long lines.
Music should transmit a feeling, should move something inside of you, bring you to tears or to joy. I feel nothing watching someone playing scales. I played professionaly with jazz players and, they´re like theoretical physicists, there´s a moment when they can´t stop playing scales up and down, like doing math inside their heads.
@chetumalkid there are a lot of players like that, but metheny/mehldau are capable of bringing both the theoretical goods and the feeling. this particular video highlights a lot of the former, but as the 2nd favorably-voted comment put it: this is really meant for avid jazz listeners. it is not meant for john q. i've heard some miles davis, if you know what i mean. all the things you are is a standard that's been done and re-done a million times, yet they really did something new with it here.
@chetumalkid Well I guess the goal there is to actually make an emotional statement with all that musical math but like all things done in the moment sometimes the magic isn't there & it misses, that's the paradox of jazz music in my opinion but I'v also heard plenty of uninspired rock & pop hell just turn on the radio & listen for a few minutes. Also just my opinion.
It is contemporary jazz/academic theme presentation and improvisation on it. We are evolving! :D this is the humble opinion of a academic composer u.u
In this time of his life, Pat have a preference about the discover of new language and techniques that we (the mankind) can use on the contemporary jazz. He said something like that in the interview included in the The Way Up DVD (I love that work o.o!) In this video he use typical methods of motiv development. That its not new on contemporary academic music, but in jazz Yes, it is!. Its a new interpretation about improvisation..
brambau must have quit listening before that six minute mark he was talking about... They listen to each other through the whole chart, Brad starts quoting some of Pat's licks, in fact. To say that Pat yielded is completely wrong. Neither yield, they mesh. This is how music evolves and keeps from stagnation. Gotta use your ears more before you knock a great work of art, so that you can at least seem informed.
@andreaswy276 only mormons go to heaven. Bach is in hell with Buddha, Ghandi, Lennon and everybody else from all history who was in any way interesting.
I'm sorry.....but they adapted to eachother Throughout the piece. There was no opposition. They moved together harmonically and stylistically yet refused to get locked into a specific style. I found it refreshing, and inspiring.
Sorry to break it too you. They are both very very talented players. However what happened was expected. Pat Metheny likes to play this song fast., continuous and sticking to the harmony. Brad Mehldau likes to deconstruct the harmony of standards like this.
So they both did what they usually do and both stubbornly DID NOT TRY TO ADAPT TO THE OTHER. The two styles DO NOT MIX except 6 minutes in when Metheny finally starts listening to Mehldau.
@phakajuju no kidding phak, i really like pat, and i found this hard to apreciate without any knowledge of music. i know it's good. but i didn't feel i understood it well enough to get everything i could out of it.
@achonies oh certainly taxi drivers, custodians, electricians, farmers etc can listen, i just doubt theyl be able to comprehend and enjoy as much as musically trained individuals would. Thats my point and it is not scientifically proven, its just my opinion from my experiences.
@phakajuju you are right about that. I've trained myself and doreally enjoy listening . I've tried to get a friend interested, but he just doesn't get it.
@phakajuju Think they're gunning it too much. Written as a ballad, and probably my preference with the exception of Keith Jarrett's rendition which is great.
This is definitly some the highest level jazz I've ever seen. The virtuosity is astounding and the depth and accuracy of the interaction is magical. Pat eats "all the things you are" for breakfast. If I had been in the audience I probably would have started freaking out and jumping up and down.
Yeah, I need some blues scale to find heart and soul in music. 2 dimensions and no more! Give me something simple and I might understand it and therefore enjoy it... Seriously guy... open your ears... this stuff is ALL heart!
Virtuosity is when one has truly embodied the art to it's fullest. Playing fast is NOT virtuosity. Understanding is more the element that describes this. Pat has such a great understanding of jazz melody and harmony. How can you say he's JUST showing his virtuosity. He is showing you HIM and that is the art in jazz.
@BlingMasterFunk I love Metheny and Mehldau both -- there are hardly any musicians that I like to listen to more on their respective instruments. And they definitely have great understanding of jazz, like you say. But they're not turning that mastery into jazz here. It's just noodling. If you think EVERYTHING they play is fantastic, then you're not listening, you're just worshiping. I'll bet Metheny thinks he misses the mark sometimes. If he didn't ever, he'd just be coasting and past his prime.
@mfbown thinking that "everything" they play is fantastic is by no means worshipping them, it's a subjective opinion that's all. I want to clear up what people commonly view as showing "virtuosity" or as you say, "noodling". If by noodling you mean it wasn't thought of before it was played... then yes. But, if you (and not just you mfbown) think that virtuosity and noodling are the same thing then no. Everyone misses the mark sometimes. That's why jazz is so great. It's a series of missing it :)
This song is awesome and anyone who just think Metheny is just "noodling" doesn't really understand it. And that's fine, not trying to be a jazz snob or anything, but if you don't understand it, don't be rude about it. I'm sure you probably play in a shitty band.
how could you say that this was crap in any way? i mean sure its not some emotional steve lukather bus guitar solo but the technicality and the rhythm that these guys have is absolutely astounding. that first section where their playing the intro to the song is simple fantastic.
wait those first couple guys were definitely being sarcastic...but you, mr. count....you seem confused
if they're serious...well, at least watch Last Train Home, because there's nothing technical in that at all, as well as many other extremely emotional pat metheny songs
they are having a conversation ... but I do think Methany is pulled Mehldau down into the more noodely land. What I love about Mehldau is his ability to riff without just doing scale-running crud. Check out his "Exit Music for a Film" Radiohead cover here .... that's got tons of melody lines and different setups to it ...
I agree that perhaps there was too much of a conversation. To be a part of the creation of music isn't to have a conversation, it is to hear, anticipate and contribute to the music.
I just feel like they're paying a little bit too much attention to each other rather than letting the music lead. Totally just a personal opinion, I don't think it warrants 'stupid'. And what does pop music have to do with anything? Music is music.
Incredible telepathic lock going on between the 2 players here. Rather than get lost or compete with each other they manage to keep listening and responding even in the midst of tremendous complexity and speed. Virtuosity!
I really felt they should have finished with the tonic chord at the end. Don't know how I feel about this performance. It had some really nice bits in, especially what Brad plays 2:30 to 2:45
I'd rather hear this than Bill Evans any day. Lennie Tristano and Art Tatum were earlier than Bill Evans and much better. Actually, I always thought Bill Evans was mostly hype...but I'll give him credit for being very expressive. I'd rather hear somebody burn lines from the Nicolas Slonimsky Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. To each his own.
If you really believe that either Tatum, Tristano, Mehldau, or Metheny's lines come straight out of Slonimsky's Thesaurus and are not products of their own expressive minds and legendary sets of ears.....you are sorely mistaken.
I strongly disagree with you that Bill Evans was mostly a hype. His touch and sense of taste are the sounds of a true master. He was also one of the largest influences on the modern piano trio. You are correct on saying "To each his own", but think about who you could be offending when you call one of the most important jazz influences a hype.
Miles Davis seemed to feel pretty strongly about Bill Evans. Listen to the work they did together with Michel LeGrand, especially Fats Wallers "Jitterbug Waltz"
I used to make my Bill Evans action figure fight my Chet Baker action figure... I always made Bill win though, because when you pressed a button on Chet his teeth shot out of his head
once my 70s Bill Evans figure with the beard and butterfly collar fought my late 50s Bill Evans with the slicked-back hair. It was a hard fought battle, but then my special edition 1965 about-to-leave-the-Coltrane-band Elvin Jones interrupted and stomped them both. "You're next, Rashied Ali!", he shouted, then stormed off while Nat Hentoff and Ira Gitler frantically tried to describe the action on their miniature typewriters...
Are you guys trading? I only have a Jimmy Smith "Midnight Special" Blue Note edition action figure (when I was a kid I accidentally lost his suitcase and the B&O railcar he came with) and a whole bunch of Amandla period Miles Davises. No one wants those. :-(
'Undercurrent' is well worth it, as are all of Bill's efforts. The overall soundscape is not dissimilar to what you hear here between Pat and Brad...one misses the rhythm section in prolonged listening (in my view, at least a bass - imagine the above with Charlie Haden or Eddie Gomez!). Bill is the superior, gentler pianist, compared with Brad's more cerebral, syncopated (but still interesting) playing.
Wonderful album! I transcribed that version of 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The interplay is incredible, but I must agree with libro07 that Bill's style is just a lot more beautiful. Brad is very contrapuntal and percussive, where as (especially in the transcription) Bill's lines really evoke a style more steeped in harmonic connection and the bebop school.
Wow.... The way the Manipulate the Time and Harmonic Structure of this song is fuckin Amazing..... These are truly two musicians at the top of their Game
MUCHAS GRACIAS POR ENVIÁRMELA, ESCUCHAR ... DIALOGAR, ESA ES LA CLAVE DE SOL MAYOR &
EL GUSTO COMPARTIDO POR LA BUENA MÚSICA ES SIN DUDA, UN PLACER INAGOTABLE, GRACIAS MIL R,
SALUDOS CORDIALES,
Mine de México*
patscircle 6 months ago
These are my two favourite instruments, played by two of my favourite players, but you know what? I'm not feeling it until about 5:15.
sc06yl 7 months ago 3
I need to get to a doctor fast my mind has been blown
powersoftritone 7 months ago
Bill Evans and Jim Hall again?
StanleyDonwood 8 months ago
@StanleyDonwood Bill Evans and Jil Hall on cocaine you mean right ?
inatakan88 4 months ago
@inatakan88- Bill Evans and Jim Hall were already on cocaine.
Jazzdog40 3 months ago
Welcome in tight Jazz Counterpoint world,
by two music genius!!
Manuel17jccj 8 months ago 2
AHEM! It's simple people. These are two REALLY GOOD musicians, playing REALLY HARD to write and play music. May explain why many of you don't feel anything? Just a wild guess as to this set of reactions.
It doesn't even matter, they had fun, so did the audience. It's like walking past a great chef's master creation and saying "oh no, i'm not hungry, I just ate a burger". You don't do anything for food, humanity, hunger, the chef, or yourself. You just play picky with delicious food.
upT3mpo 9 months ago 3
@upT3mpo Yes but food is only as good as it tastes. If I don't like it what do I care that the chef slaved for 3 hours to make it? Delicious is an opinion, not a fact. Same with music. It could be crafted lovingly by master musicians, but if I don't like it, I don't like it, and that's my opinion, which is just as valid as yours or anybody else's.
vdeferens 8 months ago 3
Whilst I acknowledge that they are both great musicians I cannot get into this genre of music at all. It's horses for courses I'm afraid and strangely enough it sounds like one is on Aintree and one is at Chester.
But I respect all opinions
washy21 10 months ago
I can understand some of the reactions here : you know, Bach wrote "the Art of Fugue" which is abstract music -or no music at all as some would say- and on the other hand some other well-known things that are much more enjoyable to the common beings. But what I know is that Schubert never ever composed music for musicians and is he not one of the greatest of all times ? (You've guessed what's my opinion towards this duo)
WAMEDJO 11 months ago
Never compare yourself to genius players ----- its fantastic to M playing along the changes...it sounds easy but is not!!!
andreasoberholz 11 months ago
Wow, they are so high, you cannot touch them!
PurpleHazeNr10 1 year ago
@PurpleHazeNr10
That's the point : if you can't reach them, they cannot touch you !
I really love Metheny and Mehldau individually, but this alloy does not work.
Too bad…
Maxomatik 11 months ago
@Maxomatik
Well, I actually enjoy being blown away by their musicality and it's interesting and very inspiring for me to try to analyze and figure out what they are doing and then even apply it myself in my own playing :)
PurpleHazeNr10 11 months ago
bach would be proud
litlewing 1 year ago
This is great stuff! Pat Metheny is a monster on that guitar.
JazzyZenBrotha 1 year ago
Most jazz musicians I've met are proud of the music they play and listen to jazz from it's earliest inceptions. Ask yourself how much jazz you are really knowledgable about and that should tell you what your real interest is. If you are interested and have listened then these guys use of polyrhythic ideas will blow you away. Historical context is a key to appreciating what's happening now.
babinm 1 year ago 2
Ugh can people stop calling this "technical"? Not saying their take isn't totally out there because it is, and both of them can swing way harder than any of us ever could, to the point where they can suspend it for 30 seconds or longer and come back without missing a beat, but calling it "technical" makes it sound trivial or less musical than it is.
And for those who don't think that they are swinging here, or to quote mfblown, "just noodling", um....what? Are we listening to the same thing?
denali637 1 year ago
so locked!
kylejeffreycrane 1 year ago
his right hand technique is strange but it works I guess... still awesome playing
RYANN36 1 year ago
this is FAR beyond human being
Joyfather76 1 year ago
This is the most awesome version of "All The Things You Are" I have ever heard!!
nuke97 1 year ago
this is for people who listen to flava flay.
natashiapelouski 1 year ago
amazing!!
RizkyDwiPP 1 year ago
tu ta tu-tutu turu tu!!! :)
BloodHassassin 1 year ago
..when white guys play swing. Groovin boys, groovin. Following that form was fun. Now lets get a little splang-a-lang going shall we? Folks do want to tap some feet afterall. Nevertheless, this is what i transcribe when the rest of the world goes to sleep, and it's just me and my brain still awake. The listening quotient here is peerless. That's got to count for something right? What else will all the white, 19-year-old, male jazz college majors shout "whoo!" to when they get together?
yisacknayrabin 1 year ago
@yisacknayrabin hush, man
fuzzfactory 1 year ago
@fuzzfactory, just keeping it real dude.
yisacknayrabin 1 year ago
@yisacknayrabin so far off.
lralbrecht 1 year ago
@yisacknayrabin
true greatness comes from showing a bit more respect for those that inspire...
007Bimbo1 1 year ago
@007Bimbo1 A: That's not a saying. Not an adage, not a nugget of Confucian wisdom; you just made it up. Please for the love of God, people on Youtube, PLEASE stop posting your own opinions in the form of "Proverbial Prose." It doesn't make it any less stupid, it makes it worse. Only deities, elves, and screenwriters for Lord of the Rings movies speak like that. For anyone else it's just embarrassing.
B: It's untrue and also makes no sense.
C. I'm only striving for mediocrity.
yisacknayrabin 1 year ago
@yisacknayrabin so my answer is D. None of the above....yes i made it up....you should start doing the same in a more positive vent.
007Bimbo1 1 year ago
you have to listen with your eyes half closed.... you will hear better! :-D
Qpidon 1 year ago
words cannot describe
flippenpinoi 1 year ago
@flippenpinoi
I quite agree, all this intellectual bullshit gets on my nerves!
7':48" of pure unadulterated listening pleasure and hours spent writing verbal diarrhea about it!!
swingmanic 1 year ago 2
There is no need for explanation. Just enjoy.
6666musiclover 1 year ago
.......please excuse me everyone....my head has to explode now.
nuke97 1 year ago
@nuke97 No problem, just do it quick and unobtrusively.
YofterMofter 1 year ago
So true! bluekiss2
austinhinchey 1 year ago
Just great, the better my ear get, the more I realize how ingenius this is. The Concept isn't new, sure, but this is kinda the simpliest way for concept-improvisation and got the highest degree of improvised elements and offers the greatest room for communication. So... u can't judge this, it's just a matter of being able to hear and to understand :) but first, u have to believe that this is great and to want to understand it.
TheSubconsciousness 1 year ago
SWEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
loren1283 1 year ago
13 people missed the like button
bluekiss2 1 year ago
These two creatures have ascended men and are communicating with gods in a realm unbeknown to mere pop philistines
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It´s true Meheny can bring both feeling and theorethical goods, I was more familiar with that side of him and I had not seen his virtuoso side. Still amazes me anyway how these guys produce the sounds they do and, honestly I´ve picked up chops watching free-style musicians as well. Being a bass player I guess I´m more after the beat than long lines.
chetumalkid 1 year ago
It´s true Meheny can bring both feeling and theorethical goods, I was more familiar with that side of him and I had not seen his virtuoso side. Still amazes me anyway how these guys produce the sounds they do and, honestly I´ve picked up chops watching free-style musicians as well. Being a bass player I guess I´m more after the beat than long lines.
chetumalkid 1 year ago
Music should transmit a feeling, should move something inside of you, bring you to tears or to joy. I feel nothing watching someone playing scales. I played professionaly with jazz players and, they´re like theoretical physicists, there´s a moment when they can´t stop playing scales up and down, like doing math inside their heads.
chetumalkid 1 year ago
@chetumalkid there are a lot of players like that, but metheny/mehldau are capable of bringing both the theoretical goods and the feeling. this particular video highlights a lot of the former, but as the 2nd favorably-voted comment put it: this is really meant for avid jazz listeners. it is not meant for john q. i've heard some miles davis, if you know what i mean. all the things you are is a standard that's been done and re-done a million times, yet they really did something new with it here.
thedeservingmany 1 year ago
@chetumalkid Well I guess the goal there is to actually make an emotional statement with all that musical math but like all things done in the moment sometimes the magic isn't there & it misses, that's the paradox of jazz music in my opinion but I'v also heard plenty of uninspired rock & pop hell just turn on the radio & listen for a few minutes. Also just my opinion.
MrMelodius1 1 year ago
I can appreciate and admire their virtuosity, but this seems like a purely intellectual exercise. I can't see how it has any aesthetic appeal.
whoatherejohnny 1 year ago
It is contemporary jazz/academic theme presentation and improvisation on it. We are evolving! :D this is the humble opinion of a academic composer u.u
jcheattai 1 year ago
In this time of his life, Pat have a preference about the discover of new language and techniques that we (the mankind) can use on the contemporary jazz. He said something like that in the interview included in the The Way Up DVD (I love that work o.o!) In this video he use typical methods of motiv development. That its not new on contemporary academic music, but in jazz Yes, it is!. Its a new interpretation about improvisation..
jcheattai 1 year ago
This is just sick!
luisantoniocastrog 1 year ago
Their exchanges remind me a lot of the Burton/Corea duets.
DiveJunkee 1 year ago 4
of course they are listening... you guys need a pair of new ears.
SALLEMJAZZ 1 year ago
of course they are listening... you guys need a pair of new ears.
SALLEMJAZZ 1 year ago
of course they are listening... you guys need a pair of new ears.
SALLEMJAZZ 1 year ago
brambau must have quit listening before that six minute mark he was talking about... They listen to each other through the whole chart, Brad starts quoting some of Pat's licks, in fact. To say that Pat yielded is completely wrong. Neither yield, they mesh. This is how music evolves and keeps from stagnation. Gotta use your ears more before you knock a great work of art, so that you can at least seem informed.
novumensemble 1 year ago
This is special. Thank you.
proxthink 1 year ago
OMG O-O
fviola1 1 year ago
i'm sure all of their critics are playing at all the top jazz festivals and have tons of cd's out .
doodle202 1 year ago 12
I like Brad Mehldau. A lot.
MontgomerylandFunk 1 year ago 2
J.S.Bach is smiling from heaven ... :-)
andreaswy276 1 year ago 2
@andreaswy276 only mormons go to heaven. Bach is in hell with Buddha, Ghandi, Lennon and everybody else from all history who was in any way interesting.
bernie1111 1 year ago
@bernie1111 just matter of definition ... we mean the same :-))
andreaswy276 1 year ago
this version is sooo beautiful :) ...especially the ending...wow
JW128791284Blaaaa 1 year ago
THIS IS GOOD
it's quite amazing in fact
I'm sorry.....but they adapted to eachother Throughout the piece. There was no opposition. They moved together harmonically and stylistically yet refused to get locked into a specific style. I found it refreshing, and inspiring.
hansjazz 2 years ago 4
THIS IS NOT GOOD
Sorry to break it too you. They are both very very talented players. However what happened was expected. Pat Metheny likes to play this song fast., continuous and sticking to the harmony. Brad Mehldau likes to deconstruct the harmony of standards like this.
So they both did what they usually do and both stubbornly DID NOT TRY TO ADAPT TO THE OTHER. The two styles DO NOT MIX except 6 minutes in when Metheny finally starts listening to Mehldau.
One person must relent
brambau 2 years ago
Excellent!!!!!!!!
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Need to put these guys together with Victor Wooten or Marcus Miller...........Jazz On That!
charvelmod3 2 years ago
hell no, i hope that never happens
handdancin 2 years ago 4
that was insane! in a good way :-)
DaveSolazzo 2 years ago 4
This is music for musicians. not for the faint hearted.
phakajuju 2 years ago 61
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@niggerfuckshit dude, your name is the fucking BOMB.
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@phakajuju if by "musician" you mean "snob" then you sir, are 100% correct.
cbrandom 2 years ago
@cbrandom How is this music for "snobs"?
seamonkeyguitars 2 years ago
@phakajuju i disagree with the first part, but not the second part.
earthchild100 1 year ago
@phakajuju no kidding phak, i really like pat, and i found this hard to apreciate without any knowledge of music. i know it's good. but i didn't feel i understood it well enough to get everything i could out of it.
fauxkamie 1 year ago
@phakajuju musicians and no one else? how about taxi drivers or custodians?
achonies 11 months ago
@achonies oh certainly taxi drivers, custodians, electricians, farmers etc can listen, i just doubt theyl be able to comprehend and enjoy as much as musically trained individuals would. Thats my point and it is not scientifically proven, its just my opinion from my experiences.
phakajuju 11 months ago
@phakajuju you are right about that. I've trained myself and doreally enjoy listening . I've tried to get a friend interested, but he just doesn't get it.
achonies 11 months ago
@phakajuju Think they're gunning it too much. Written as a ballad, and probably my preference with the exception of Keith Jarrett's rendition which is great.
kingusmcgee 10 months ago
yea this is scary good... i really have to fight my to keep the original underlying harmony in my brain.. fuk
lifeemusicelife 2 years ago 15
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! me enferme que locura mas hermosa!!
chedo2007 2 years ago
7:20 so perfect
sitarooman 2 years ago
all the things you aren't. man they're amazing.
nadavnaz2 2 years ago 4
All the things I aren't either.
sistalinda 2 years ago 3
craziest shit ever.. man..
amrob 2 years ago
Bach-like genius. What a great conversation they're having, and we are lucky enough to get to listen in.
toadswildride 2 years ago 7
This is definitly some the highest level jazz I've ever seen. The virtuosity is astounding and the depth and accuracy of the interaction is magical. Pat eats "all the things you are" for breakfast. If I had been in the audience I probably would have started freaking out and jumping up and down.
bustan44 2 years ago 8
Oh my God!
floppzy7 2 years ago
Great, but very "cold", rather "machinery" and artificial style... not much heart, warmth and soul in it ...
cenolbaj 2 years ago
Yeah, I need some blues scale to find heart and soul in music. 2 dimensions and no more! Give me something simple and I might understand it and therefore enjoy it... Seriously guy... open your ears... this stuff is ALL heart!
micahj 2 years ago 6
" Magnamonial Sunrise Jazz "
for me this fine winters day down under in the sub-tropics Fantabulistical Groove Music on the island of ~~ ~
indigoish 2 years ago
This has a nice sense of space.
dicostu 2 years ago
he's just taking it to the next level... follow him if you can
quitefamous 2 years ago
Virtuosity is when one has truly embodied the art to it's fullest. Playing fast is NOT virtuosity. Understanding is more the element that describes this. Pat has such a great understanding of jazz melody and harmony. How can you say he's JUST showing his virtuosity. He is showing you HIM and that is the art in jazz.
BlingMasterFunk 2 years ago 33
@BlingMasterFunk I love Metheny and Mehldau both -- there are hardly any musicians that I like to listen to more on their respective instruments. And they definitely have great understanding of jazz, like you say. But they're not turning that mastery into jazz here. It's just noodling. If you think EVERYTHING they play is fantastic, then you're not listening, you're just worshiping. I'll bet Metheny thinks he misses the mark sometimes. If he didn't ever, he'd just be coasting and past his prime.
mfbown 1 year ago
@mfbown thinking that "everything" they play is fantastic is by no means worshipping them, it's a subjective opinion that's all. I want to clear up what people commonly view as showing "virtuosity" or as you say, "noodling". If by noodling you mean it wasn't thought of before it was played... then yes. But, if you (and not just you mfbown) think that virtuosity and noodling are the same thing then no. Everyone misses the mark sometimes. That's why jazz is so great. It's a series of missing it :)
BlingMasterFunk 1 year ago
This song is awesome and anyone who just think Metheny is just "noodling" doesn't really understand it. And that's fine, not trying to be a jazz snob or anything, but if you don't understand it, don't be rude about it. I'm sure you probably play in a shitty band.
devilstoaster 2 years ago 5
simply*
TLPnega 2 years ago
how could you say that this was crap in any way? i mean sure its not some emotional steve lukather bus guitar solo but the technicality and the rhythm that these guys have is absolutely astounding. that first section where their playing the intro to the song is simple fantastic.
TLPnega 2 years ago
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Brad: OK
Pat: boring
From Jaén (Spain)
eurostandar 2 years ago
actually sounds a lot like Phish at points
EchoCannon89 2 years ago
hehe check out the walnut creek 97 mikes groove
unclejunglebass 2 years ago
These Guys are half gods!
lol
shama2 2 years ago 2
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This guy has no feeling at all.
A TOTAL technocrat.
beachhutblues 2 years ago
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ABSOLUTELY AGREE! Dude, finally someone that sees the same as me...
Vincspenc 2 years ago
Yup, it's much better to noodle around with three or four blues box notes over and over with varying degrees of gravitas. That's "feeling."
TheCountReno 2 years ago 5
wait those first couple guys were definitely being sarcastic...but you, mr. count....you seem confused
if they're serious...well, at least watch Last Train Home, because there's nothing technical in that at all, as well as many other extremely emotional pat metheny songs
HopePoisoned 2 years ago 2
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totally agree with both of you guys...
this guy plays shit: no real melody no real harmony its redicioulus this guy only plays to show his virtuosity...
if he really thinks he just played "all the things you" are he has an mental illness
zu3tu7 2 years ago
they are having a conversation ... but I do think Methany is pulled Mehldau down into the more noodely land. What I love about Mehldau is his ability to riff without just doing scale-running crud. Check out his "Exit Music for a Film" Radiohead cover here .... that's got tons of melody lines and different setups to it ...
maddymud 2 years ago
I'll check it out!
zu3tu7 2 years ago
I agree that perhaps there was too much of a conversation. To be a part of the creation of music isn't to have a conversation, it is to hear, anticipate and contribute to the music.
DanielGillismusic 2 years ago
stupid comment. this isnt pop music
amrob 2 years ago
hear, anticipate and contribute to the music is actually what they are doing.
amrob 2 years ago
I just feel like they're paying a little bit too much attention to each other rather than letting the music lead. Totally just a personal opinion, I don't think it warrants 'stupid'. And what does pop music have to do with anything? Music is music.
DanielGillismusic 2 years ago
crazy!!!!
guitar98765 2 years ago
Definately one of the best renditions of All The Things You Are i've ever heard.
riam76 2 years ago
Brad Mehldau has clocked piano.
jbowers56 2 years ago
Lol epic win
spongey222 2 years ago
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omg i love this! the best part is at the end when they play the right notes
bahbuhbih 2 years ago
pat metheny is a true guitar master when it comes to jazz but i heard him play classical really well too!
mihirmaiden18 3 years ago
7:18 has one of the best endings to All the Things that I've heard. Mehldau is the man.
benoncambie 3 years ago 4
These two just rip it up! I've actually heard mehldau do IMHO an even better job on this song.
Lak3Show 3 years ago
Incredible telepathic lock going on between the 2 players here. Rather than get lost or compete with each other they manage to keep listening and responding even in the midst of tremendous complexity and speed. Virtuosity!
BopjoWebDesign 3 years ago 7
"Call and Answer"... That is that essence of jazz. The best musicians are the best listeners.
BlingMasterFunk 3 years ago 32
@BlingMasterFunk What did you say?
tsiggy 1 year ago
@BlingMasterFunk Soooooooooooooo true.
thermagaeddonn 1 year ago
jesus
subschool5 3 years ago
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i agree. impressive both individually and collectively, but where's the soul?
mayakronfeld 3 years ago
hehehe. you got a point. i dont think even they understand it completely:)
djuri1985 3 years ago
ahah, I assure you that they understand :)
aviumterror 3 years ago 3
Pretty imressive though I can't understand the feeling of this song, it's to complicated and fast for me...I guess
JimiXpresion 3 years ago 4
until you learn how to play it :)
maybe this is not an easy one, along with Giant Steps, Invitation, and a few one's more, but it's always like that.
softspoken33 3 years ago
no sustained notes from 2 chordal instruments hahaah
but this is great
iiirhd 3 years ago
I really felt they should have finished with the tonic chord at the end. Don't know how I feel about this performance. It had some really nice bits in, especially what Brad plays 2:30 to 2:45
leomcculloch 3 years ago
So that's what Pat would have sounded like, it he had played with Chick Corea... Sorry, I'll take "Bright Side Life" over this, any day :-)
bourgeoisbrats 3 years ago
It's Bright Size Life
avatarist 3 years ago 3
This is the essence of jazz....I wish more people could understand what these fine musician's are doing here....its really special.
funnyman1022 3 years ago 5
I'd rather hear this than Bill Evans any day. Lennie Tristano and Art Tatum were earlier than Bill Evans and much better. Actually, I always thought Bill Evans was mostly hype...but I'll give him credit for being very expressive. I'd rather hear somebody burn lines from the Nicolas Slonimsky Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. To each his own.
Modes9 3 years ago
If you really believe that either Tatum, Tristano, Mehldau, or Metheny's lines come straight out of Slonimsky's Thesaurus and are not products of their own expressive minds and legendary sets of ears.....you are sorely mistaken.
shepdudemush 3 years ago 4
I strongly disagree with you that Bill Evans was mostly a hype. His touch and sense of taste are the sounds of a true master. He was also one of the largest influences on the modern piano trio. You are correct on saying "To each his own", but think about who you could be offending when you call one of the most important jazz influences a hype.
moonstruckdorian 3 years ago 4
Miles Davis seemed to feel pretty strongly about Bill Evans. Listen to the work they did together with Michel LeGrand, especially Fats Wallers "Jitterbug Waltz"
tomtowle 3 years ago
Modes9 you said, "...I always thought Bill Evans was mostly hype."
I thought about what I was going to say in response to that, but decided I'd just better not say it.
NotYourTypicalNegro 3 years ago
There is no hype in successful Jazz... None.
Jon00Wesley00Harding 3 years ago 2
Yeah, all those Bill Evans billboards and action figures, the Bill Evans softdrink commercials - he was just too hyped to take seriously.
mysticmoose 3 years ago 3
I used to make my Bill Evans action figure fight my Chet Baker action figure... I always made Bill win though, because when you pressed a button on Chet his teeth shot out of his head
bearblaster420 3 years ago 9
once my 70s Bill Evans figure with the beard and butterfly collar fought my late 50s Bill Evans with the slicked-back hair. It was a hard fought battle, but then my special edition 1965 about-to-leave-the-Coltrane-band Elvin Jones interrupted and stomped them both. "You're next, Rashied Ali!", he shouted, then stormed off while Nat Hentoff and Ira Gitler frantically tried to describe the action on their miniature typewriters...
antpile99 3 years ago 8
Are you guys trading? I only have a Jimmy Smith "Midnight Special" Blue Note edition action figure (when I was a kid I accidentally lost his suitcase and the B&O railcar he came with) and a whole bunch of Amandla period Miles Davises. No one wants those. :-(
CamTheCat 2 years ago 7
What are the Bill Evans action figures
doublealufwaffe 2 years ago 2
this is my favourite version of this tune with pat on it and i love all the others. I would love for them to do another duo album more in this style.
elnombre2 3 years ago
so i have a question. has anyone heard the bill evans jim hall album undercurrent?
jazzguitar27 3 years ago
'Undercurrent' is well worth it, as are all of Bill's efforts. The overall soundscape is not dissimilar to what you hear here between Pat and Brad...one misses the rhythm section in prolonged listening (in my view, at least a bass - imagine the above with Charlie Haden or Eddie Gomez!). Bill is the superior, gentler pianist, compared with Brad's more cerebral, syncopated (but still interesting) playing.
libro07 3 years ago
Wonderful album! I transcribed that version of 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The interplay is incredible, but I must agree with libro07 that Bill's style is just a lot more beautiful. Brad is very contrapuntal and percussive, where as (especially in the transcription) Bill's lines really evoke a style more steeped in harmonic connection and the bebop school.
monkreeder 3 years ago
exactly! you just read my mind!
jazzguitar27 3 years ago
one of the greatest collaborations ever laid down on record. one of my favorite albums ever! I like the comparison!
francogenio 3 years ago
Yes, its amazing.
inferioralphamale 3 years ago
I didn't like brad mehldaus playing until i saw this video. just awesome
peanutbutternathan 3 years ago
/watch?v=rCwauzeL27w&feature=related
This is even better, trust me ;)
obliviouspet 3 years ago
3:07-3:14!!
jmur001 3 years ago
that, my friends, is what it's all about
McCormackMusic 3 years ago
Wow.... The way the Manipulate the Time and Harmonic Structure of this song is fuckin Amazing..... These are truly two musicians at the top of their Game
Pickpocket86 3 years ago
It's amazing how they are able to keep the "song structure" in their head as they veer off in different harmonies, rhythms, etc.
I got lost several times - but they didn't!
utube9000 3 years ago 3
Superb! Bravo! TY.
paulostroff99 3 years ago
unbelievable!
iiwagner 3 years ago
i love it when pat does his thing 0:48-1:00
there's something really soothing about that lick (if it be called that)
notforbo2 3 years ago
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umbral sea, you sound completely like a poof
1bigstudmuffin 3 years ago
Oh, look, someone insulted me on YouTube. I'm crushed.
UmbralSea 3 years ago 13
My mind is blown. The way the piano and guitar compliment other is so organic and textural I feel like I could reach out and touch the music.
UmbralSea 3 years ago 9
wow... these guys are both great listeners.
godswiph 3 years ago
...be a little more dramatic why don't you.
jiggity99 3 years ago
wat model ibanez is pat playing here? looks like a custom artcore of some kind or the PM 85 but im not sure. anyone know exactly what model it is?
fluffhead059 3 years ago
ibanez PM20 prototype, one of a kind. a cross between an FG100 and a PM20. the tailpiece comes from a JP20.
abilialibi 3 years ago
ha ha. its just a funny question.
godswiph 3 years ago