>>53416378Ok yeah there's no escaping how stupidly pretentious Brecker's stuff is as it "evolves" past the first minute, but still, he did the theme in digestible style at the start!
But the point is, composers riff off each other all the time and it shouldn't be a problem. That's all I'm sayin.
>>53416417That rhythm's just the start. You'll hear Pat in many MANY other Japanese games if you familiarize yourself with his work. Not that it's a bad thing - it's good music.
>>53416418I'm not a lawyer, but I've been told that anything more than 6 seconds is a potential lawsuit. The thing about Jazz musician though is that they don't really care since yeah, it's mostly improvisation right from the countdown and they think of music differently.
That particular source for the vocaroo is from Pat Metheny's "We Live Here" tour in Japan in 1995, which was published on DVD. Here's an edited source from that DVD that was on YouTube which has since been removed for whatever reason:
https://files.catbox.moe/e4a6fs.mp4 
