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Mike Metheny Releases "60.1"

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60.1 is trumpeter Mike Metheny's ninth album as a leader. The eclectic set covers styles ranging from evocative ballads and straightahead jazz to the raucous title track and a novel nod to marching bands.

Featured on 60.1 are some of Kansas City's finest jazz musicians including Roger Wilder and Paul Smith (keyboards), Bob Bowman (acoustic bass) and Brandon Draper (drums). Seven of the ten tracks are originals by Mike, and in addition to his instrument of choice, the flugelhorn, the EVI (electronic valve instrument) is used on several selections.

“It's always fun putting together a new recording in a beautiful studio," Mike says. “Kansas City's Soundtrek has been like a second home for the past 20 years. But what made this project especially rewarding was the chance to play with such great musicians. On 60.1 I was in good company."


TRACK LISTING

  1. Dubious Medley: Pat Metheny meets “marching band"

  2. 60.1 (mm, composer): headbanger featuring electric trumpet (EVI) and drums

  3. Laurie (Bill Evans, composer): jazz ballad featuring flugelhorn and acoustic piano

  4. Syncomation (mm): contemporary jazz, flugelhorn and electric piano featured

  5. C.C. & Water (Dave Zoller, composer): medium uptempo blues with jazz quartet

  6. Blue Smoke (mm): film noir meets EVI, jazz quartet and strings

  7. Mancini Sunset (mm): bossa inspired by Henry Mancini

  8. Adagio for Maya (mm): contemporary orchestral

  9. Hassell Free (mm): World/New Age inspired by Jon Hassell/Brian Eno

  10. Till Later (mm): jazz ballad with EVIs, flugelhorn and keyboards





CONTACT/ORDER INFORMATION

$17 per CD (includes s/h) to
Mike Metheny
P.O. Box 7004
Lee's Summit, MO 64064




ABOUT MIKE METHENY

Trumpet/flugelhorn soloist Mike Metheny is a native of Lee's Summit, Missouri and has degrees from the University of Missouri/Columbia (B.S. in Music Education) and Northeast Missouri State University (Masters in Music Education). His teachers included Keith House and John Alexander.

From 1971 to 1974, he was a trumpeter in the U.S. Army Field Band in Washington D.C., and in 1976 he became a faculty member at Boston's Berklee College of Music, a position he held for six years. At Berklee, Mike taught private trumpet, music theory and jazz improvisation and, while in Boston from 1976 to 1989, led his own Boston-based jazz quartet, appearing in numerous club, concert and festival settings across New England and the U.S.

Mike is a recipient of the “Outstanding Brass Player" award at the annual Boston Music Awards. He has also appeared on numerous jazz recordings as a sideman and has recorded nine albums as a leader: Blue Jay Sessions (1982, Headfirst Records), Day In -- Night Out (1986, MCA/Impulse, and featuring Mike's brother, Grammy-winning guitarist Pat Metheny), Kaleidoscope (1988, MCA/Impulse), From Then 'Til Now (1992, Altenburgh Records) and Street of Dreams (1996, Altenburgh Records), and Close Enough For Love (2001), KC Potpourri (2003), Back to Basics (2004), and 60.1 (2010) on Mike's 3 Valve Music label.

Since 1983 Mike has been one of the few trumpeters to regularly perform on the EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument), a trumpet synthesizer with many dimensions and musical possibilities. Originally developed by Nyle Steiner, the EVI has an eight octave range, is MIDI capable, and, as Mike says, “can double as a bug sprayer."

Today, Mike is a freelance performer, educator and music journalist in the Kansas City area and has written liner notes for such notables as jazz vocalist Marilyn Maye (Supersinger: A Tribute to Johnny Carson). He has also contributed to KC Magazine, Jazziz, and The DaCapo Jazz & Blues Lover's Guide to the U.S. and is the former editor of Kansas City's Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM), a position he held from 1994 to 2003.

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