A chronology of evolving concert set lists (2019-2025) in the process of performing, writing a book, and releasing a recording of music by Pat Metheny – with the band “Transcendence”
This is a barebones chronology. A narrative explaining how these set lists evolved appears here, and on my “Music and Our Lives” Substack.
March 30, 2019:
Pat Metheny hands Bob Gluck a copy of The Pat Metheny Songbook after a concert
April-July 2019:
Rehearsals and recording of Bob Gluck’s Early Morning Star
Bob begins playing his way through the Pat Metheny Songbook, at the piano
August-November 2019:
Bob selects 25 and then 15 charts from the Pat Metheny Songbook
to include on a Fall setlist for an outdoor concert
Nov. 13, 2019:
Bob Gluck & Christopher Dean Sullivan Duo (backyard rehearsal)
Everything is Explained (Metheny)
Are You Going With Me (Metheny)
Half Life of Absolution (Metheny and Mays)
I Have a Dream (Hancock)
Jan. 28, 2020:
Bob Gluck & Christopher Dean Sullivan Duo – concert
Are You Going With Me (Metheny)
80/81 (Metheny)
Offramp (Mays and Metheny)
Always and Forever (Metheny)
Afternoon (Metheny)
Back Arm and Blackcharge (Metheny)
The Bat (Metheny)
Roof Dogs (Metheny)
Another Life (Metheny)
Dream of the Return (Metheny)
Half Life of Absolution (Metheny and Mays)
Farmer’s Trust (Metheny)
Question and Answer (Metheny)
James (Metheny)
June 15, 2020:
Release of Early Morning Star (FMR Records), Bob Gluck, with Andrea Wolper, Kinan Azmeh, Ken Filiano, and Tani Tabbal
June 6, 2020:
Bob Gluck & Christopher Dean Sullivan Duo (socially distanced rehearsal)
Afternoon (Metheny)
Question and Answer (Metheny)
The Bat (Metheny)
July 6, 2020:
Bob Gluck solo (recorded session)
Afternoon (Metheny)
Everything that Lives Laments (Jarrett)
The Bat (Metheny)
August 28. 2020:
Bob Gluck, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Karl Latham Trio (socially distanced rehearsal)
Half Life of Absolution (Metheny and Mays)
Everything that Lives Laments (Jarrett)
Offramp (Mays and Metheny)
Question and Answer (Metheny)
Roof Dogs (Metheny)
September 3, 2020:
Bob Gluck, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Karl Latham Trio – outdoor concert
Farmer’s Trust (Metheny)
Afternoon (Metheny)
Are You Going With Me (Metheny)
Everything that Lives Laments (Jarrett)
Offramp (Mays and Metheny)
Always and Forever (Metheny)
Another Life (Metheny)
Roof Dogs (Metheny)
The Bat (Metheny)
80/81 (Metheny)
Half Life of Absolution (Metheny and Mays)
Question & Answer (Metheny)
On setlist but not performed:
Back Arm and Blackcharge (Metheny)
New Year (Metheny)
Counting Texas (Metheny)
Dream of the Return (Metheny)
Oct. 24, 2020:
Bob Gluck, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Karl Latham Trio – remote live stream concert
Spain (Corea)
Dolphin Dance (Hancock)
Not for Today (Gluck)
Death and the Flower (Jarrett)
Offramp (Mays and Metheny)
Question & Answer (Metheny)
Back Arm and Blackcharge (Metheny)
A Remark You Made (Zawinul)
I Have a Dream (Hancock)
The Bat (Metheny
Half Life of Absolution (Metheny and Mays)
November 11, 2020:
Bob presents to Pat Metheny the idea of writing a book about his work, and on November 17, he agrees
Dec. 12, 2020:
Bob Gluck, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Karl Latham Trio – remote live stream concert
Death and the Flower (Jarrett)
Half Life of Absolution (Metheny and Mays)
Question & Answer (Metheny)
Back Arm and Blackcharge (Metheny)
A Remark You Made (Zawinul)
[other compositions not relevant to this project were also on the set list]
January 12, 2021:
Gluck and Metheny dialog about the book begins
March-May 2021
Rehearsals for Bob Gluck solo recording project (new compositions)
May 2021-June 2023: Ongoing exchanges between Gluck & Metheny for the book
August-September 2022:
Bob Gluck solo video recordings (hammered dulcimer, piano, & electronics)
Everything is Explained (Metheny)
Imaginary Day (Metheny)
Across the Sky (Mays)
New Years Day (Metheny)
January 1, 2024:
Release of “And every fleck of russet” (Electricsongs Records) Bob Gluck solo
August 2024:
Release of Pat Metheny, Stories beyond Words (Univ. of Chicago Press)
September 25, 2024:
Bob Gluck, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Karl Latham Trio
The Bat (Metheny)
Afternoon (Metheny)
Always and Forever (Metheny)
Roof Dogs (Metheny)
Question & Answer (Metheny)
Offramp (Mays and Metheny)
October 26, 2024:
Bob Gluck, Karl Latham Duo
Afternoon (Metheny)
Always and Forever (Metheny)
Farmer’s Trust (Metheny)
Half Life of Absolution (Metheny and Mays)
Question & Answer (Metheny)
Roof Dogs (Metheny)
January 2025:
Release of Karl Latham’s Living Standards II, with Mark Egan, Mitch Stein, Henry Hey Roger Squitero, and Wolfgang Lackerschmid (Drop Zone Jazz Records)
March 20, 2025:
Publication of The Musical World of Paul Winter (Terra Nova Editions)
May 1, 2025:
Pre-release (downloads and CDs) of Transcendence Plays Music of Pat Metheny
May 18, 2025:
Bob Gluck, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Karl Latham Trio – concert
The Bat (Metheny)
Offramp (Mays and Metheny)
Always and Forever (Metheny)
Question & Answer (Metheny)
Afternoon (Metheny)
Farmer’s Trust (Metheny)
Roof Dogs (Metheny)
July 1, 2025:
Transcendence Plays Music of Pat Metheny streaming release
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~ by bobgluck on May 16, 2025.
Posted in Memories of shows, Pat Metheny, Personal notes, playing the music, sources, the book's life in the world
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