Pat Metheny / Gary Burton quartet - 1976 (p 1)

0:00 "Yellow Fields" (Eberhard Weber)
6:35 "Ictus" + "Syndrome" (Carla Bley)
14:15 "Dreams So Real" (Carla Bley)
18:40 "Sea Journey" (Chick Corea)
28:30 encore: "Sirabhorn" (Pat Metheny)

Gary Burton - vibraphone
Pat Metheny - guitar
Steve Swallow - electric bass
Dan Gottlieb - drums

[settevi]

@23:40, a Young Jaco Pastorius in the audience ! :-))

[alcologne]

I saw these guys right around this same time in Vancouver BC at a club called Oil Can Harry's. I sat right in the front row just below Pat Metheny. They had two bass players that night with Eberhard Weber being the other bassist. Steve Swallow really blew me away with his solos, he was a lead bass player and Weber just of filled out the sound with his floating sound. It was a great show.

[MarkJohnson-hlqq]

I had a chance to see this group multiple times in Boston in 1976 at the Jazz Workshop, a small club in the city. It was my first time to see Burton, but I saw him many times over the 3 years I was there in Boston. I also got to see Metheny and his Bright Sized Life band, Jaco was truly amazing.

[josephzummo]

Pat is my all time favorite guitar player. Nobody phrases like him. Gary Burton somehow never hits a bad note. Dan gotleib of course goes on to be PMG's drummer for many years. Swallow never gets much credit but should. The combo of a pick and a short scale hollowbody bass was unheard of in jazz at the time! Truly a trail blazer. And they play 2 Carla Bley tunes, swallow's wife BTW. Great stuff thanks

[TorySlusher]

This is like the blueprint for Steps Ahead, also some Zappa like elements in here too... Pat really did have it all together even back then.

[am]

Wow! This just happened to pop up on my feed and I was completely mesmerized. Metheny & Burton are the truth! Thanks for sharing this masterpiece!🖤

[TherealShabbadang]

Gary Burton has always been one of my favourite musicians, since I heard his record with Keith Jarrett, from 1970-1971, and then The New Quartet from 1973, both fantastic records. Of course, being quite young at the time, I first heard those records a few years later, it would be around the time this recording took place, 1976, when I had turned 15. I also got the Ring album, with Pat and Eberhard Weber, however I didn't like that as much. Too intellectual for me at the time, I think. But this concert is more direct and outgoing in nature. Gary really could swing his ass of if he wanted - one of the great geniuses of modern jazz! I thoroughly enjoyed reading his autobiography a couple of years ago.
Thanks for uploading this, wherever you got this from, and of course thanks to NRK for having the insight and policy to document important artistic happenings; that is so rare today, even for public service companies.

[thomasquerner]

I heard and saw them playing exactly this program of beautiful music live at Freiburg university ! (must have been 19779) Unforgettable. Have been following Pat Metheny ever since !

[uubuuh]

any of you fans remember Hotel Hello? that was a big album for me BITD...

[RJ_Chicago]

Tremendous! Four of my favorite ECM musicians. Burton is amazing. The rest of them just getting going. Plus playing Carla Bley tunes. Another favorite of mine.

[flightlessbird]

Freaking brilliant, amazing, rockin. ❤️ Thanks for upload! Holy wow. Great find! Looking in crowd for in my mom's lap.

[totallyunmemorable]

This is fantastic! And totally amazing that the quality is this good given the primitiveness of audio/video tech back then. I know, I was around then and playing music myself. My video (click my pic) came five years later and its quality isn't nearly this good.

[spacerockwizard]

Holy dog shit, Batman! THIS is what I'm talkin' 'bout. Thank you for sharing this.

[ariesarethebest]

This is sooo good! Thank you for uploading!

[myworms]

I think this is the oldest video where I’ve seen a Peavey amp (in this case, a cabinet)

[ikeeptime]

Is that a Fibes drumset Gotleib is playing? If so....COOL. Had one coupla decades ago and loved it. Shedding a tear.

[timportz]

Is that a young Van MOrrison in the audience at 10:28?

[rpaulette]

Steve Swallow - electric bass una pregunta quien sabe puede ser que Steve toca con un bajo adaptado de una guitarra ver tocar a este capo el bajo me rompe la cabeza un tecnica depurada toca el bajo como una guitarra clasica la mano isquierda se toca todo minuto 22, 36

[skittlesstarburst]

There’s a guy who has gotten hair transplants from Pat. He woke up after the operation with a full head of hair and super human guitar agility.

[tomgnau]

Is that a bridge pickup in that ES-175? This is a *very* early video.