PAT METHENY — Pat Metheny Group ‎: Imaginary Day (review)

PAT METHENY — Pat Metheny Group ‎: Imaginary Day album cover Album · 1997 · World Fusion Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
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After around 1000 jazz albums I finally got myself around to Pat Metheny. Still Life was my entry point, and I've been exploring him on and off. There hasn't been a single album of his that disappointed me yet. In fact, the worst of them has been an 85/100. But even after having been highly impressed with Offramp and awestruck with The Way Up, somehow, Imaginary Day absolutely won my heart. Between this and The Way Up, this is the album where Metheny masterfully balanced everything that made his music work: the accessibility, the personality and the balance between pop and spiritualism, and drove it through a perfectly built adventure into his whole career in a single hour. There was always a kind of cute, poppy magic about him that hit toward the heart, but with this album, everyone of my organs was loaded. This even made it into my top 30 albums of all time.

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