After canceling his concerts for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Metheny, who loves live performances, has finally resumed his live activities in earnest! It’s so much fun to play live! How far will the guitar trio evolve with Metheny, Francis, and Dyson, who are lively and pull down their guitars like a fish in water? Come and listen! The long-awaited latest live performance, the second installment is already here! The sound quality is also of the highest quality, master sound quality obtained exclusively! Pat Metheny’s latest project, “Side Eye,” which was announced in 2019 and has tour dates until August 2020 and 2021, has been canceled in part due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the rest have been postponed to 2022. Metheny’s latest project, “Side Eye,” invites up-and-coming artists whom Metheny particularly values (and wants to perform with), to perform new interpretations of past songs and new works for new members. As those who have listened to the two live titles released in Connecticut and New York, which were released on October 16, 2021 at the Hamilton Country Memorial Building and Annie & Elizabeth Anderson Theater in Cincinnati, Ohio, from the ongoing US tour of Side Eye, where two talented and talented newcomers and master Metheny play an amazing triangle, know that this is a two-disc set that has been completely recorded for over two hours up to the encore in high-quality stereo sound with a high-quality master that has been carefully mastered by the label, which is different from the sound sources circulating among collectors. The concert begins with Pat’s talk, and Dyson is one of the greatest drummers of the modern era, and as for James, he seems like a visitor from another planet. He introduces that he has never met such a talent before, and starts with a duo with Dyson, “Turnaround”. Next, he performed “Have You Hard” as a duet with Frances, followed by “Bright Size Life”, “So It May”, “Better Days Ahead”, “Timeline”, “Always and Forever”, “Zenith Blue”, “Trigonometry”, “Message to a Friend”, “Into the Dream”, “When We Were Free” instead of “Question and Answer” in Connecticut on the 6th, and an encore of “Acoustic Medley” including “Phase Dance”, “Minuano”, “This Is Not America”, and “Last Train Home”, as well as the killer “Are You Going With Me”. It was a raging development with Metheny’s representative songs popping out one after another in new arrangements. James and Dyson, who will be performing together this time, are black, and the songs that have been performed many times with different members in the past sounded somewhat black. And of course Pat, but James and Dyson are also incredibly good. And they’re energetic. I felt like Pat’s worldview was being purified and reorganized. In the last three years, Pat played acoustic and tranquil music in his regular quartet, but in this trio, he plays bluesy, tearful melodies with choking like an American rock guitarist, and plays aggressively using a guitar synth for the first time in a while, and it seems like he’s really enjoying playing with the trio. As for the two important members, James shows off his talents from a different dimension, from classical acoustic piano playing like Gwilym Simcock of the Metheny Quartet, to hot organ playing in the back of a gospel choir, to a bass-less trio, but he still needs a bass… He freely manipulates the synth bass. Dyson, the drummer, also features solos here and there, but even in the backing, he has a wild sense of rhythm and sensitivity, and his drumming is superb with a versatile beat of 4 beats, samba, and blues, and outstanding technique, completely knocking out the audience. The approach is completely different from the drums heard in jazz trios so far, and it is very fresh and interesting. But the groove is as expected. Together with Chris Dave, Mark Juliana, Nate Smith, Tony Austin, Rob Turner, and Marcus Gilmore, he is truly the pinnacle of modern jazz drums. In a recent interview, Metheny said that he feels that it is his mission in his current position to provide opportunities for many talented newcomers, just as he did in the past. Speaking of which, Metheny has continued to work with mainly young members in recent years. Of course, his collaborations with talented people who are called big names are worth listening to, but that is all it takes. However, just as was the case with the emperor Miles Davis, meeting young people with unfathomable talent that brings out something new the more they hone their skills not only increases their name value, but also creates a place of new stimulation and creativity for the young artists themselves, and is sure to be a step towards further evolution. Live at Memorial Hall,Cincinnati,OH October.16.2021 Audience Recording EX 124 min Disc 1 1. Turnaround 2. Have you Heard 3. So May it Secretly Begin 4. Bright Size Life 5. Better We were Free Disc 2 1. Message to a Friend 2. It’s Starts When We Disappear 3. Trigonometry 4. Into the Dream 5. Zenth Blue encore 1 6. Ac oustic Medley (Phase Dance / Minuano The Way up Pt.1 / September Fifteenth / The Sun in Montreal / Midwestern Night Dream / Antonia / This is Not America / Last Train Home ) encore 2 7. Are you Going with Me? Pat Metheny – Guitar,Orchestrion James Francies – Keyboards Joe Dyson – Drums