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naut Sep 20 2015 at 5:50 AM	"To the End of the World" has perhaps Pat’s most impassioned synth soloing ever. The song literally makes me weep with unabated joy. What do you folks think?
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molesoulsandal Oct 10 2017 at 6:55 AM	bravo tomm, i agree mightily: i, too, nominate ’nascente’, from mike brecker’s ’the nearness of you’ . . . . not only the brief but beautiful solo on the synth axe, but the ’high harmony’ that pat plays behind brecker’s statement of the theme on the outro is everest-like . . . . . as much of a post-bop sprint MASTER that pat is, my personal favorite work of his has always been his more ’behind the scenes’ offerings, such as on ’as falls wichita . . .’, ’the falcon & the snowman’, and the song ’first circle’ . . . . . nobody ’accompanies’ like pat . . . my late father was a fine guitarist in the tradition of george barnes, tony mottola, hank garland, and freddie green (among others), and he eventually ’confessed’ to me late in his life that ’pat’s the best i’ve ever heard’, and that was ’something’ for him, as he truly did come from the ’old school’, but there’s no denying that PM comes from ’ALL schools’, and the rest is (his)tory.
foxesfred Oct 07 2017 at 11:51 PM	I agree w/all responses. Let’s not forget Q&A from Jazz Baltica Salzau with the trio 2006.
naut Oct 06 2017 at 6:24 PM	"Language of Time" on Quartet. Amazing and lovely. (And that should be synth, with a freaking N!)
Oystein Dec 09 2015 at 3:20 AM	Are You Going With Me? Oh yes, I am...
BobSmith1 Dec 06 2015 at 12:40 PM	The Roland solo on "Story from a Stranger" is my favorite. It starts with such quietness and restraint and then builds logically to an emotional crescendo.
tomm Sep 30 2015 at 10:15 PM	"Nascente" on Michael Brecker’s "The Nearness of You" CD. Short but intense.
franksexton Sep 30 2015 at 9:21 AM	this seems to have morphed into "Great Synth Solos of Pat". Another great one is in "Lonnie’s Lament" on Kenny Garret’s album Pursuance.
marshall Sep 30 2015 at 9:08 AM	Another vote for "Towards the Light." I’ve also loved the Song for Bilbao on Travels (live!), and another of my favorites is the Question and Answer solo on Trio (Live!).
bluepno Sep 27 2015 at 7:48 PM	easily The Longest Summer from Secret Story...the accompanying video shows a love lost on the dunes of the cape....
foper Sep 27 2015 at 2:35 PM	Another one is "Towards the Light" from the MM Quartet.
bxl12378 Sep 26 2015 at 3:41 PM	Can it be anything else than AYGWM?
naut Sep 26 2015 at 7:39 AM	Thanks for the head’s up on the Milton & Miller Pat tunes, Cathy. Listening now. Sweet. / Lots of worthy suggestions/opinions on Pat’s impassioned synth work. Who’s right? Eeny meeny miney moe (& Curly & Larry).... As they say: "it’s all good." Cheers.
CATHY W Sep 26 2015 at 1:42 AM	And I thought I was the only one that felt that way....lol...nice to hear how others are affected the same way by Pats playing and the synth....wow!! Love all the ones stated..here’s a couple to check out...IF you can find them...check you tube...Vidro E Corte with Milton Nacimento and Shape of my heart with Dominic Miller....awesome!!!
HAMBONE Sep 25 2015 at 1:31 PM	Flip a coin, Bilbao or AYGWM
jwmusic Sep 25 2015 at 12:52 PM	There are almost too many yo list! In my opinion, these two must be included: "You Don’t Know What Love Is" from Gary Thomas’ album, TILL WE HAVE FACES, and "Secret Beach" from QUARTET (Metheny Mehldau).
lindsayallen Sep 25 2015 at 12:12 AM	There is a video floating around of a Song for Bilbao in Warsaw, Poland from the Secret Story tour. I’ve heard some ridiculous synth solos from Pat, and I have a long list of great ones, but this one is one of the greatest extemporaneous improvisations I’ve ever heard. You can even tell that the musicians around him almost can’t believe what they’re hearing. Even though the audio quality isn’t that great, I guarantee you will get goosebumps when you hear it.
btmsfan Sep 24 2015 at 9:22 PM	I feel that one that tends to get overlooked (probably because it’s short) is the Dream Of The Return solo. An amazing musical sentence.
blisterfree Sep 24 2015 at 2:07 PM	Not on synth per se, but Half Life of Absolution (from TRTY) features some pretty darned impassioned guitar playing!
sbjames Sep 23 2015 at 10:00 PM	The Truth Will Always Be
Brinklehof Sep 23 2015 at 8:28 PM	The Truth Will Always Be......definitely
foper Sep 23 2015 at 3:48 PM	Sorry Yos… I’m going with AYGWM. I can remember when Off Ramp came out and I first heard that soaring synth. I remember hearing long before the album came out that he would be playing the guitar synth; the first ever on an album from what I remember and I was anxious to hear what it was going to sound like. When his solo broke out with all of that airy reverb, I cried. It still touches me deeply today, maybe more out of nostalgia than anything else.
franksexton Sep 23 2015 at 10:18 AM	i vote for "The Truth Will Always Be" from Secret Story and "Question and Answer" from Trio Live.
yossarian Sep 22 2015 at 5:10 PM	Yes, as said previously, Longest Summer. I presume AYGWM isn’t allowed, being too obvious. As it Is from Speaking of Now is very impassioned. I personally disallow Song for Bilbao as being more joyous than impassioned. To the End of the World... see AYGWM.
shockandwoe Sep 21 2015 at 11:48 AM	It’s neither synth nor blistering but 2:48 to about 4:00 of "Silent Movie" from Metheny/Mehldau-Quartet gets me all the time.
tiny_tim Sep 21 2015 at 4:49 AM	’To the End of the World’ has a profound transcendent effect on me, including Pat’s synth guitar solo....amazing chart from all points of view...
naut Sep 21 2015 at 2:58 AM	Can’t disagree with you there, Kooltrane. Definitely a "blistering" solo, which the crowd supremely acknowledges!
lorenantolik Sep 21 2015 at 2:55 AM	Longest Summer
patsfan Sep 20 2015 at 10:53 PM	Well, Naut, I don’t know how high I could rate it because of the dozens of other great synth tunes I love, but I must say that The End of the World’ is the most hypnotic piece of music I know, especially when your out on a trip by yourself with new scenery and new thoughts. As I’ve aged , We Live Here’ has become a staple food for my soul, but most favorite in that way is ’ Imaginary Day’ where some of my favorite synth is found.
mugsy Sep 20 2015 at 10:28 PM	Hi Naut, I totally agree with you! I have had so many different emotions come to the surface when I listen to "To The End of the World" = it blows me away. This is one song for sure that makes me make facial expressions (similar to Pat’s) = and it is not me trying to imitate Pat, but it just takes me to a very emotional place. Depending on my mood and situation, it can be a peaceful happy place...or a dark place. But I will often put it on repeat, and listen over and over. I don’t know if I am articulating this as well as I would like - I just know that it really speaks to me in a very strong and passionate way.
Kooltrane Sep 20 2015 at 4:33 PM	Always liked "Song For Bilbao" form "Travels." Blistering!
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molesoulsandal
Oct 10 2017
at 6:55 AM

bravo tomm, i agree mightily: i, too, nominate ’nascente’, from mike brecker’s ’the nearness of you’ . . . . not only the brief but beautiful solo on the synth axe, but the ’high harmony’ that pat plays behind brecker’s statement of the theme on the outro is everest-like . . . . . as much of a post-bop sprint MASTER that pat is, my personal favorite work of his has always been his more ’behind the scenes’ offerings, such as on ’as falls wichita . . .’, ’the falcon & the snowman’, and the song ’first circle’ . . . . . nobody ’accompanies’ like pat . . . my late father was a fine guitarist in the tradition of george barnes, tony mottola, hank garland, and freddie green (among others), and he eventually ’confessed’ to me late in his life that ’pat’s the best i’ve ever heard’, and that was ’something’ for him, as he truly did come from the ’old school’, but there’s no denying that PM comes from ’ALL schools’, and the rest is (his)tory.

foxesfred
Oct 07 2017
at 11:51 PM

I agree w/all responses. Let’s not forget Q&A from Jazz Baltica Salzau with the trio 2006.

naut
Oct 06 2017
at 6:24 PM

"Language of Time" on Quartet. Amazing and lovely. (And that should be synth, with a freaking N!)

Oystein
Dec 09 2015
at 3:20 AM

Are You Going With Me? Oh yes, I am...

BobSmith1
Dec 06 2015
at 12:40 PM

The Roland solo on "Story from a Stranger" is my favorite. It starts with such quietness and restraint and then builds logically to an emotional crescendo.

tomm
Sep 30 2015
at 10:15 PM

"Nascente" on Michael Brecker’s "The Nearness of You" CD. Short but intense.

franksexton
Sep 30 2015
at 9:21 AM

this seems to have morphed into "Great Synth Solos of Pat". Another great one is in "Lonnie’s Lament" on Kenny Garret’s album Pursuance.

marshall
Sep 30 2015
at 9:08 AM

Another vote for "Towards the Light." I’ve also loved the Song for Bilbao on Travels (live!), and another of my favorites is the Question and Answer solo on Trio (Live!).

bluepno
Sep 27 2015
at 7:48 PM

easily The Longest Summer from Secret Story...the accompanying video shows a love lost on the dunes of the cape....

foper
Sep 27 2015
at 2:35 PM

Another one is "Towards the Light" from the MM Quartet.

bxl12378
Sep 26 2015
at 3:41 PM

Can it be anything else than AYGWM?

naut
Sep 26 2015
at 7:39 AM

Thanks for the head’s up on the Milton & Miller Pat tunes, Cathy. Listening now. Sweet. / Lots of worthy suggestions/opinions on Pat’s impassioned synth work. Who’s right? Eeny meeny miney moe (& Curly & Larry).... As they say: "it’s all good." Cheers.

CATHY W
Sep 26 2015
at 1:42 AM

And I thought I was the only one that felt that way....lol...nice to hear how others are affected the same way by Pats playing and the synth....wow!! Love all the ones stated..here’s a couple to check out...IF you can find them...check you tube...Vidro E Corte with Milton Nacimento and Shape of my heart with Dominic Miller....awesome!!!

HAMBONE
Sep 25 2015
at 1:31 PM

Flip a coin, Bilbao or AYGWM

jwmusic
Sep 25 2015
at 12:52 PM

There are almost too many yo list! In my opinion, these two must be included: "You Don’t Know What Love Is" from Gary Thomas’ album, TILL WE HAVE FACES, and "Secret Beach" from QUARTET (Metheny Mehldau).

lindsayallen
Sep 25 2015
at 12:12 AM

There is a video floating around of a Song for Bilbao in Warsaw, Poland from the Secret Story tour. I’ve heard some ridiculous synth solos from Pat, and I have a long list of great ones, but this one is one of the greatest extemporaneous improvisations I’ve ever heard. You can even tell that the musicians around him almost can’t believe what they’re hearing. Even though the audio quality isn’t that great, I guarantee you will get goosebumps when you hear it.

btmsfan
Sep 24 2015
at 9:22 PM

I feel that one that tends to get overlooked (probably because it’s short) is the Dream Of The Return solo. An amazing musical sentence.

blisterfree
Sep 24 2015
at 2:07 PM

Not on synth per se, but Half Life of Absolution (from TRTY) features some pretty darned impassioned guitar playing!

sbjames
Sep 23 2015
at 10:00 PM

The Truth Will Always Be

Brinklehof
Sep 23 2015
at 8:28 PM

The Truth Will Always Be......definitely

foper
Sep 23 2015
at 3:48 PM

Sorry Yos… I’m going with AYGWM. I can remember when Off Ramp came out and I first heard that soaring synth. I remember hearing long before the album came out that he would be playing the guitar synth; the first ever on an album from what I remember and I was anxious to hear what it was going to sound like. When his solo broke out with all of that airy reverb, I cried. It still touches me deeply today, maybe more out of nostalgia than anything else.

franksexton
Sep 23 2015
at 10:18 AM

i vote for "The Truth Will Always Be" from Secret Story and "Question and Answer" from Trio Live.

yossarian
Sep 22 2015
at 5:10 PM

Yes, as said previously, Longest Summer. I presume AYGWM isn’t allowed, being too obvious. As it Is from Speaking of Now is very impassioned. I personally disallow Song for Bilbao as being more joyous than impassioned. To the End of the World... see AYGWM.

shockandwoe
Sep 21 2015
at 11:48 AM

It’s neither synth nor blistering but 2:48 to about 4:00 of "Silent Movie" from Metheny/Mehldau-Quartet gets me all the time.

tiny_tim
Sep 21 2015
at 4:49 AM

’To the End of the World’ has a profound transcendent effect on me, including Pat’s synth guitar solo....amazing chart from all points of view...

naut
Sep 21 2015
at 2:58 AM

Can’t disagree with you there, Kooltrane. Definitely a "blistering" solo, which the crowd supremely acknowledges!

lorenantolik
Sep 21 2015
at 2:55 AM

Longest Summer

patsfan
Sep 20 2015
at 10:53 PM

Well, Naut, I don’t know how high I could rate it because of the dozens of other great synth tunes I love, but I must say that The End of the World’ is the most hypnotic piece of music I know, especially when your out on a trip by yourself with new scenery and new thoughts. As I’ve aged , We Live Here’ has become a staple food for my soul, but most favorite in that way is ’ Imaginary Day’ where some of my favorite synth is found.

mugsy
Sep 20 2015
at 10:28 PM

Hi Naut, I totally agree with you! I have had so many different emotions come to the surface when I listen to "To The End of the World" = it blows me away. This is one song for sure that makes me make facial expressions (similar to Pat’s) = and it is not me trying to imitate Pat, but it just takes me to a very emotional place. Depending on my mood and situation, it can be a peaceful happy place...or a dark place. But I will often put it on repeat, and listen over and over. I don’t know if I am articulating this as well as I would like - I just know that it really speaks to me in a very strong and passionate way.

Kooltrane
Sep 20 2015
at 4:33 PM

Always liked "Song For Bilbao" form "Travels." Blistering!

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