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Guitarist Pat Metheny Is Not Defined, And Still Undecided Sure, Pat is on "perpetual output" mode. But he's still figuring out this music thing like the rest of us. Share May 14, 2021 Pat Metheny is a talker. True, his fame is tied up in his identity as a guitarist, but trust me when I say that even the slightest mental nudge will set Metheny down a conversational path, philosophizing about artistry and music. It’s evident after spending even a few minutes watching old interviewers featuring the fretboard surfer, and it was no different during this conversation that was, ostensibly, centere...

THE FREE-IMPROVISING pianist Georg Graewe was born in Bochum in 1956, where his parents ran a pub just 50 miles away from the British Forces Radio Station in Cologne. At that time “it was the entire, mostly British rock scene I was listening to,” he says.”The Beatles, Stones, Who, Georgie Fame and later Cream and Hendrix. I bugged my parents into buying me a guitar when I was eight and started on piano at 12.” At 15, he joined a rock band but “they already had a good guitarist, so I got stuck with piano.” Three years later, he formed his first quintet, playing a kind of free jazz ...

Stewart Lee ’s celestial choices. Plus reanimated Brummies, maverick maestros and some fine fiddling A year pre-Covid, outside Islington’s Hope & Anchor on a summer evening to see mod punk classicists The Fallen Leaves, the board unexpectedly promises “support from Cult Figures”. Not the Birmingham band that made two singles in 1979 then disappeared? Yes! Released in 2018, The 166 Ploughs A Lonely Furrow was the album Cult Figures should have made in 1980, but 2021’s Deritend is a slick sixties-suffused punk pop set of Keith Moon tubthumping and Carnaby Street crooning. “Silver ...

Last modified on Tue 23 Mar 2021 14.35 EDT In 1971 John Russell left the remote Romney Marshes of Kent for London’s booming avant-arts scene as a 17-year-old blues and Frank Zappa fan, and was soon playing the guitar in such unrecognisable ways that even his contrarian Mothers of Invention hero might have raised an eyebrow. Russell, who has died aged 66 of cancer, was the polar opposite of a guitar star - an obdurate original in the spiky mould of his influential teacher and mentor Derek Bailey, and in later years an energetic promoter of genre-evading free improvisation. For almost five de...