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Pat Metheny and The Metropole Orchestra (2003) ~ Are you going with me......? Hotney 5 Streams • 3 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/playlis....t?list=PLAE302F8B597

PAT METHENY
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.
One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-bop, latin jazz and jazz fusion.

THE METROPOLE ORCHESTRA
The Metropole Orchestra (or Metropole Orkest) is a jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full time ensemble of its kind in the world. A hybrid orchestra, it is a combination of jazz big band and symphony orchestra. Comprising 52 musicians, it is versatile across many musical forms, and is equipped with a "double rhythm section" - one for pop and rock, and one for jazz based music.
It was founded in 1945 by Dolf van der Linden at the urging of officials from Netherlands Public Broadcasting, which manages and subsidizes the orchestra. The name of the group was suggested by one of the musicians. Dolf van der Linden led the ensemble for 35 years until he stepped down in 1980. He was replaced by Rogier van Otterloo, who led the group until his sudden death in 1988. Dick Bakker held the baton until 1995 when the current conductor, Vince Mendoza, took over.
The orchestra is a regular feature at the North Sea Jazz festival and the yearly Holland Festival along with many TV and radio programs broadcast to millions. The ever-growing Dutch film and television industry relies heavily on the Metropole Orchestra for its film scores. Since 2005 the Metropole is under the baton of its Chief, four-time Grammy Award winner Vince Mendoza, and can be seen frequenting the concert stage, in festivals and on recordings in the Netherlands as well as internationally.
http://en.metropoleorkest.nl/mco_page/theorchestra

JIM MCNEELY
In this video the conductor is: Jim McNeely
http://www.jim-mcneely.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McNeely

NIORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL
The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival was held before was demolished in 2006.

Miles Davis with Wayne Shorter- November 4, 1967 Philharmonie, Berlin | Audio source B- remastered Hotney 5 Streams • 3 years ago

The Second Great Quintet in spectacular form, featuring the late Wayne Shorter

November 4, 1967
Berliner Jazztage 1967
Philharmonie, Berlin,
the former West Germany

MILES DAVIS QUINTET
Miles Davis- trumpet
Wayne Shorter- tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock- piano
Ron Carter- bass
Tony Williams- drums

introduction 0:00
Agitation (Miles Davis) 0:04
Footprints (Wayne Shorter) 5:19
'Round Midnight (Bernie Hanighen-Cootie Williams-Thelonious Monk) 14:00
No Blues [aka Pfrancing] (Miles Davis) 21:41
Masqualero (Wayne Shorter) 32:16
closing credits 41:52

Audio source B: ORF radio broadcast, May 8, 1968

At the time of posting we recently learned of the passing of Wayne Shorter. Wayne was an incredible saxophonist, a distinctive, original voice that graced not only Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, but hard bop's premier finishing school Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, the giants of fusion Weather Report, a string of superb solo albums that spanned seven decades, many stunning recordings with Joni Mitchell, and numerous appearances as a sideman, particularly on Blue Note in the 1960s. Wayne always brought an intelligent, individual voice to any setting, by turns serene and turbulent, constantly finding fresh, unpredictable directions. His original thinking also made him a brilliant composer, contributing dozens of modern jazz standards to the repertoire.

Shorter brought all of these qualities to the Davis group when he joined in the autumn of 1964, providing the most commanding frontline partner Miles had had since John Coltrane, and writing many of the tunes on _E.S.P, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer_ and _Nefertiti._ In his autobiography, Miles says "Wayne was the idea person, the conceptualizer of a whole lot of musical ideas we did... He wanted to play freer han he could in Art [Blakey]'s band but he didn't want to be all the way out, either. Wayne has always been someone who experimented _with_ form instead of someone who did it _without_ form. That's why I thought he was perfect for where I wanted to see the music I played go." Shorter himself said "It wasn't the bish-bash, sock 'em dead routine we had with Blakey, with every solo a climax. With Miles, I felt like a cello, I felt viola, I felt liquid, dot-dash... and colors started really coming."

The tour of Europe in late 1967 was part of promoter George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival in Europe package tour, and this date formed part of the Berliner Jazztage festival, on which Davis's group appeared alongside the quintet of free jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp, and the Thelonious Monk Orchestra (incidentally, every discography, tour itinerary, and bootleg of this show gives the date as Novemebr 4. However, this poster for the Berliner Jazztage places the concert on the 3rd: https://g123-media.sos-ch-gva-....2.exoscale-cdn.com/f Can anyone clarify?). In contrast to the theatrical Shepp, Miles and his quintet were still dressed in the sharp suits familiar from previous tours and, although they now played their set as one continuous, uninterrupted medley, there were still clear melodies and familiar theme-solos-theme structures, even if they were stretched to breaking point. This was a band at the height of their powers, an unparralleled creative unit drawing on all the elements of Davis's recent career: hard bop, modal, and even hints of the avant garde music of which Miles was so suspicious, with an interplay that bordered on telepathy (or, if you prefer, ESP). Writer and photographer Val Wilmer said of the band's London date, "the music was bittersweet perfection."

We originally posted this music back in 2015, taken from a bootleg CD _Live In Europe_ (Jazz Up, JU-320 [Italy, 1989]). That recording had several issues, including frequent distortion, drop outs and evident tape damage. This new version comes from a recording of a 1968 ORF radio broadcast. This tape had its own issues, including running slow, cloudier sound, and occasional radio static. I have remastered the audio to resolve some of these issues and it now offers a useful alternative to the bootleg CD version. You can still hear that version here: https://youtu.be/cZRVRUeUZio

Shorter was the one holdover after the dissolution of the Great Quintet, continuing to play with Davis through the groundbreaking 1969 fusion recordings of _In A Silent Way_ and _Bitches Brew,_ before leaving in the spring of 1970 to join forces with fellow Miles alumnus Joe Zawinul in Weather Report.

As Miles noted, "Wayne was always out there on his own plane, orbiting his own planet."

Orbit in peace, Wayne.

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