Pat Metheny Group - American Garage (1979)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Pat Metheny Group Title American Garage Length 35:29 Discs: 1 Tracks: 5 Format LQ <160 kbps Packaging Jewel Case Label ECM Cat. Number 1155 Style Fusion Rating Recorded czerwiec 1979

Musicians	Credits
Pat Metheny guitars Lyle Mays piano, synth. Mark Egan bass Dan Gottlieb drums	Producer Manfred Eicher Engineer Jesse Henderson Engineer Kent Nebergall

Track list

01 (Cross the) Heartland 06:57 02 Airstream 06:22 03 The Search 04:56 04 American Garage 04:15 05 The Epic 12:59

Notes

AMG Review by Richard S. Ginell (4 1/2): The back liner photo gives the impression of a grungy Midwestern garage band, but no, that doesn't describe this sophisticated jazz-rock quartet, which was simultaneously breaking into mass-market acceptance and away from the contemplative ECM stereotype. The arrangements are more structured, the playing often more intense and searching, with a more pronounced rock influence. On the title track, Metheny digs in and displays some authoritative rock-oriented licks and intensity, and the rhythms on "The Search" have a slight, at times asymmetrical Latin feeling. The nearly 13-minute "The Epic" finds the Metheny group developing some real combustion in the improvised sections as Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb grow tighter as a unit. In hindsight, some of the music seems a bit too tightly conceived to allow adequate breathing room, but this is still high-quality jazz-rock for its time.