- First Circle (album)
Infobox Album | Name = First Circle
Type =Album
Artist =Pat Metheny Group
Released = 1984
Recorded = 15-19 February 1984
Length = 49:54
Genre =Jazz , Fusion
Label =ECM
Producer = Vance Anderson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:n9kzu3tgan2k~T0 link]
Last album = "Travels"
(1983)
This album = "First Circle"
(1984)
Next album = "The Falcon and the Snowman"
(1985)"First Circle" is a
Grammy Award winning album by thePat Metheny Group released in 1984. On the albumPat Metheny is joined byLyle Mays onpiano and keyboards,Steve Rodby onbass guitar , drummerPaul Wertico and vocalist and percussionistPedro Aznar . The album won theGrammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1985.Of note is the peculiar opener "Forward March". Sounding like a
middle school concert band 's first practice together, the piece, which features keyboardist Lyle Mays on trumpet, uses many dissonant, out-of-tune chords and notes, along with shifting time signatures.Track listing
# "Forward March" (Metheny) – 2:49
# "Yolanda, You Learn" (Mays w/additional material by Metheny) – 4:49
# "The First Circle" (Metheny, Mays) – 9:16
# "If I Could" (Metheny; in memory of Wes Montgomery) – 7:01
# "Tell It All" (Metheny, Mays; based on an idea by Metheny & Wertico) – 7:59
# "End of the Game" (Metheny, Mays) – 8:02
# "Más Allá (Beyond)" (Metheny; Spanish lyrics by Aznar) – 5:40
# "Praise" (Metheny, Mays) – 4:18Personnel
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Pat Metheny -Guitar ,Sitar , 12 String Guitar, Guitar Synth,Classical Guitar ,Synthesizer ,Synclavier
*Lyle Mays -Piano , Organ,Synclavier , keyboards,Trumpet ,Synthesizer , Bells,Oberheim ,Agogo
*Steve Rodby -Bass Guitar
*Paul Wertico - drums
*Pedro Aznar -Guitar , Acoustic Guitar, Percussion,Glockenspiel , vocals,Whistle , BellsCharts
Album - Billboard
Awards
Grammy Award s
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