Pat Metheny
Electric Guitar Solo on
Nothing Personal

About

Pat Metheny opens with three spirited choruses of electric guitar on Don Grolnick's "Nothing Personal," a 24-bar minor blues in G at approximately 241 BPM from Michael Brecker's self-titled Impulse! debut. His bright, singing tone and fluid melodic invention navigate the sophisticated blues form with characteristic grace, the three-chorus solo building steadily in intensity. As the first of two soloists in this rare meeting of Metheny and Brecker in an up-tempo swing setting, his opening statement establishes the performance's high energy level. The minor blues framework retains the earthy directness that great blues playing demands while challenging the soloist with its harmonic sophistication.

Pat Metheny was 32 to 33 years old at the time.