I just viewed Blue in Green from Pat Martino live in a piano duet situation (interestingly, from the same year - 2009). I was interesting to compare the two approaches and performances. Both of them are great, of course. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-axiF7tarD24.html
Seeing Charlie play with Q West was so amazing. Laurence on drums played a solo that made me cry. Everyone was so great and the sound came together beautifully. Such is the case hear. My listening changes when cats like these 2 play. Charlie wasn’t afraid to develop a solo. He’s not in a hurry. Fuck time just play…..❤❤
For fans of the PMG who may tend to agree with you might say ..... Pat had changed the arrangements to cater to Reeves, this was a reduced, stripped down, underpowered and lesser rendition of a monumental piece. The magic of Lyle Mays, R.I.P, was absent. Pat did not have his guitar going through a synthesizer. Diana Reeves was not up to the styling and technique required of this song. I have seen Pat live several times and have worn out his albums. I think he was told to accommodate Diana and he tried, to less than stellar results. This was a DEI command performance at Obama's Whitehouse in early 2016, he was told what to do and you can see the result as you so aptly described.
@@jaydouglas5847 thx for explaining. I've seen several different singers performing with Pat and it was great (Anna Maria Jopek for example) so that one here was a huge disappointment.
@@Polones12 Wow....someone was so "offended" by my comment that it was taken down. I guess that some folks think that ideas that differ are offensive and that they must take action to banish , censor and remove thoughts that they feel offend them. I would recommend that they should first vanquish the dragons eating at the dryer lint of their oh so fragile ego's.
first notes of Charlie's bass solo I yelled out "fucking hell" involuntarily. beautiful. I used to think of him as a "crude" player, just making this beautiful sound but not really sophisticated but I was so wrong. He's just so lyrical but also playing beautiful, intricate stuff.
One of my favorite songs written by two of my favorite composers, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. Besides Diane Reeves and Pat Metheny, I think that I see Christian McBride on bass, Zakir Hussein on percussion and Kendrick Scott on drums. This is a beautiful performance by an all star band.
Metheny is objectively one of the greatest but by god every time I hear him he sounds like a boring, straighty one eighty rambling homeless guy on the guitar.
Man, I guess you got some acid or some shit. Go listen to some music that fits your ears or tell us who the greatest guitarists in the world are. I recommend you listen to Taylor Swift's latest hit song. Maybe you can understand that one.
