First Circle is a Grammy Award winning album by the Pat Metheny Group released in 1984. On the album Pat Metheny is joined by Lyle Mays on piano and keyboards, Steve Rodby on bass guitar, drummer Paul Wertico and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Aznar. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1985. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... ECM is an abbreviation of: Electret condenser microphone Electro chemical machining Electronic countermeasures Electronic contract manufacturing Electronic control module Elliptic curve method (integer factorization) Electron Cloud Model Enterprise content management Entitlement control message - in secure data transfer Error correction mode (fax protocol) Essentials of Clinical Medicine Extracellular matrix See also... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Travels is the Pat Metheny Groups first live album, released in 1983. ... The Falcon and the Snowman, released in 1987, features the trademark sound of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays and vocals by David Bowie on the track This is Not America. Psalm 121/Flight of the Falcon (Pat Metheny Group) – 4:09 Daulton Lee (Pat Metheny Group) – 5:59 Chris (Pat... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954 in Lees Summit, Missouri) is an American jazz guitarist. ... Lyle Mays (born November 27, 1953) is a jazz pianist. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... Bassist Steve Rodby was born in December of 1954 in Joliet, Illinois. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... Paul Wertico (born January 5, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz drummer. ... This article needs translation. ... The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance was awarded from 1980 to 1991. ...

Of note is the peculiar opener "Forward March". Sounding like a middle school concert band's first practice together, the piece, which features keyboardist Lyle Mays on trumpet, uses many dissonant, out-of-tune chords and notes, along with shifting time signatures. Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ... A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family and percussion instrument family. ...

Track listing

1. "Forward March" (Metheny) – 2:49
2. "Yolanda, You Learn" (Mays w/additional material by Metheny) – 4:49
3. "The First Circle" (Metheny, Mays) – 9:16
4. "If I Could" (Metheny; in memory of Wes Montgomery) – 7:01
5. "Tell It All" (Metheny, Mays; based on an idea by Metheny & Wertico) – 7:59
6. "End of the Game" (Metheny, Mays) – 8:02
7. "Más Allá (Beyond)" (Metheny; Spanish lyrics by Aznar) – 5:40
8. "Praise" (Metheny, Mays) – 4:18

Personnel

• Pat Metheny - Guitar, Sitar, 12 String Guitar, Guitar Synth, Classical Guitar, Synthesizer, Synclavier
• Lyle Mays - Piano, Organ, Synclavier, Keyboards, Trumpet, Synthesizer, Bells, Oberheim, Agogo
• Steve Rodby - Bass Guitar
• Paul Wertico - Drums
• Pedro Aznar - Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Vocals, Whistle, Bells

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Charts

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Awards

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