I was lucky enough to see The Pat Metheny Group on their first tour at the Telluride Jazz Festival. Most in the crowd had never heard of the trio or their now legendary landmark first album – which basically rewrote the book on jazz fusion. They looked like young college kids but played with such inexplicable genius. The sound of course was completely new at the time and the audience was, in a word, awestruck. Metheny’s guitar sound has been described as the wind through the trees of heaven and I will never forget the crowd leaping to their feet and the eruption of applause after their first tune. The only way I can describe it was like hearing music for the first time. The two live takes in Berlin are from the same tour that year.
Relive what the excitement was all about.
Music Break: Pat Metheny Group Live
