For those unaware, Transcendence, the trio comprised of pianist-keyboardist Bob Gluck, electric bassist Christopher Dean Sulivan and drummer Karl Latham, pays tribute to the songs of the jazz great Pat Metheny on their brand new album aptly-entitled Music Of Pat Metheny (out via FMR Records on July 1st, 2025).

In its collective interplay and expansive approach, the trio seeks to capture the emotional depth and storytelling inherent in Pat Metheny’s compositions - from lyricism and fragility to playfulness and explosiveness - while considering new possibilities and directions.

What super charges the performance is each musician’s ability to listen, respond, and truly make music together.

Pianist/keyboardist Gluck brings his gift at balancing improvisational freedom with attention to musical structure, while bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan’s deep, resonant bass sound provides a solid foundation while crafting intricate, melodic bass lines.

Karl Latham is a drummer’s drummer, rhythmically complex, precise, and creative. Latham’s approach is dynamic and responsive, employing a diverse sound pallet to shapeshift and respond to changing musical moods and levels of intensity.

1. “Question & Answer”
2. “Afternoon”
3. “The Bat”
4. “Offramp”
5. “Dolphin Dance”
6. “Everything that Lives Laments”
7. “Roof Dogs”

Seeking to capture the emotional depth and storytelling inherent in Pat Metheny’s compositions, this emotively enraptured new recording opens on the veritably glistening work of musical art “Question & Answer” and then we get the playfully flirtatious “Afternoon” and the organically emboldened “The Bat.”

Along next is the sonically-sculpted dreamweaver of “Offramp” which is in turn backed seamlessly by the fluidly elegant “Dolphin Dance,” the set rounding out on the harmonically structured “Everything that Lives Laments,” coming to a close on the statically-imbibed art-jazz that propels “Roof Dogs”

The “Transcendence” sessions also represented an exploratory laboratory for the writing of pianist Bob Gluck’s new book, “Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words” (University of Chicago Press, 2024). The two projects, one sonic and the other written text, fed one another.

This recording was thus informed by insight gained in the study of Pat Metheny and his music, while the book was informed by the unparalleled experience that gave birth to this exciting trio and its first album.

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