Urgent:Pat Metheny Rushed to the Hospital today in a critical condition
Over the past 20 years, jazz master Pat Metheny has been delving into the subtleties of the baritone guitar, starting with his 2003 album One Quiet Night and continuing with his most recent album, MoonDial. He plays a bespoke baritone constructed by Canadian luthier Linda Manzer on this new release. But his search for the ideal nylon guitar strings, which finally led him to Argentina, also produced this most recent record and served as the inspiration for an entirely new body of work.
No te creo nada
Along the road, I’ve had a couple experiences where an instrument has suddenly opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Another example is the early days of the Roland guitar synth in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Literally, I had another one of those epiphanies within minutes after putting the Manzer guitar on nylon strings that could withstand this tuning. Suddenly, a completely different range of sounds appeared beneath my fingers.
“I began utilising it at the start of this tour, and in the midst of the tour, I entered the studio to record this new MoonDial record, right in the middle of the battle, to go in and capture something while it was new for me.” MoonDial, which is Metheny’s thirteenth solo studio album, is notable for being an entirely solo guitar record devoid of overdubs. Additionally, it is his third album that was totally recorded on a baritone guitar. He reflected on their early years in Miami and related the touching story of how he met Jaco Pastorius in a recent Metheny news article.
