LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• The entire original WBCN, KJAZ, WNYU and WLIR FM Radio Broadcasts
• Covering live performances Boston (1976), San Francisco * Seattle (1977), New York (1978 & 1979)
• Professionally re-mastered with background liners and rare archival photos.
• 16 page full colour booklet with background notes and images
• Over 40 Tracks

Having played with Gary Burton, Jaco Pastorius and other leading fusion musicians, the prodigious Pat Metheny made his solo recording debut in 1976 with the classic Bright Size Life. The following year he released Watercolors, marking the start of his long collaboration with pianist Lyle Mays and the forming of The Pat Metheny Group. That summer they played various dates (together with bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb). They were swiftly acclaimed as one of America’s foremost fusion bands. Their second album, American Garage, appeared in June 1979, and reached #1 on the Billboard jazz chart soon afterwards, propelled by the up-tempo (Cross the) Heartland, which became their signature tune. The superb tracks featured here, performed live and broadcast on FM radio, include material from Watercolors, the Pat Metheny Group album and American Garage, presented here together with background notes and images.

Track Listing:

JAZZ WORKSHOP, BOSTON, MA, 21ST SEPTEMBER 1976 WBCN-FM

• Bright Size Life
• River Quay
• There Will Never Be Another You
• Band Introduction
• Watercolors
• Nacada
• The Whopper
• Icefire
• Unquity Road
• Untitled

THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 31ST AUGUST 1977 & SEATTLE OPERA HOUSE, SEATTLE, WA 4TH SEPTEMBER 1977 KJAZ-FM

• Phase Dance
• Watercolors
• San Lorenzo
• Wrong Is Right

Tracks 1, 2 & 4 performed at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco on August 31st 1977. Track 3 performed at Seattle Opera House on September 4th 1977.

THE BOTTOM LINE, MANHATTAN, NYC, 26TH SEPTEMBER 1978 WNYU-FM

• WYNU Intro
• Phase Dance
• April Joy
• Talk
• Unity Village
• The Windup
• The Epic
• WYNU Announcer
• Hermitage
• Lakes
• Midwestern Nights Dream
• Jaco
• San Lorenzo
• American Garage
• WYNU Announcer

HOFSTRA PLAYHOUSE, HEMPSTEAD, NY 17TH NOVEMBER 1979 WLIR-FM

• Introduction
• Phase Dance
• Airstream
• Pat Chats
• April Joy
• Unity Village > The House Of The Rising Sun > The Windup
• The Epic

HOFSTRA PLAYHOUSE, HEMPSTEAD, NY 17TH NOVEMBER 1979 WLIR-FM

• James
• Old Folks
• Jaco
• The Magician’s Theater
• San Lorenzo
• Thank You > Band Intros
• (Cross The) Heartland
• WLIR Announcer

Encore:

• American Garage