Jazz Articles about Pat Metheny

About Pat Metheny

Live Review

Kursaal, Teatro Kimm Merano 10-15.07.2018 Il primo che soffia sulle ventidue candeline di Merano Jazz è Pat Metheny, che con il suo quartetto apre la sezione concertistica di un festival caratterizzato pure da una prestigiosa sezione didattica: l'Accademia Mitteleuropea, diretta da Franco D'Andrea ed Ewald Kontschieder, giunta quest'anno alla diciassettesima edizione con docenti dell'area italiana e germanica che ruotano in frequenza biennale, tra i quali troviamo nel 2018 il sassofonista Pietro Tonolo, il trombettista ...

Live Review

Pat Metheny at Belfast Waterfront

by Ian Patterson
November 19, 2017

Pat Metheny Belfast Waterfront Belfast, N. Ireland November 14, 2017 “We've been trying to get a gig here for forty two years," Pat Metheny told the crowd at the Belfast Waterfront. Happily, the Missouri guitarist had at last found the city. It had been hidden out of sight all the time, on the far side of Ireland from America. He should have asked Charlie Haden or Ornette Coleman. His old sparring partners knew.

Interview

Pat Metheny: Driving Forces

by Ian Patterson
November 10, 2017

It's been five years since Pat Metheny was last interviewed by All About Jazz, a not inconsiderable period of time in any working musician's life and particularly in one quite as prolific as the Missouri guitarist/composer. At the time, Metheny was promoting his Unity Band featuring Chris Potter, Ben Williams and Antonio Sánchez. His unconcealed enthusiasm for the band was matched by the general acclaim for its debut Unity Band (Nonesuch, 2012), the follow up Kin (Nonesuch, 2015) and sold ...

Live Review

Pat Metheny at Cologne Philharmonic

by Phillip Woolever
November 8, 2017

Pat Metheny Philharmonic Hall Cologne, Germany October 28, 2017 Pat Metheny remains a highly popular, award winning force in the music business after more than four decades. The still-amazing guitarist and his current ensemble demonstrated exactly why, many times over, during their dynamic set in Cologne's beautiful symphony hall. This extensive tour, generically deemed “An Evening with Pat Metheny," encompassed much of the 2017 calendar and civilized world offering a comprehensive set list for long ...

Live Review

Pat Metheny al Parco della Musica di Roma

by Mario Calvitti
May 26, 2017

An Evening With Pat Metheny Parco della Musica Roma 08.05.2017 Quella di Roma è stata l'ultima delle sei date italiane con cui il chitarrista Pat Metheny ha aperto il tour europeo 2017, alla testa di un quartetto di musicisti tra cui spicca il batterista Antonio Sanchez, già al suo fianco in numerose occasioni negli ultimi quindici anni, e completato da due giovani musicisti di talento, il pianista inglese Gwilym Simcock e la contrabbassista australiana ...

Live Review

An Evening with Pat Metheny at The Barre Opera House

by Doug Collette
January 20, 2017

Pat Metheny Barre Opera House Barre, Vermont January 14, 2017 Pat Metheny doesn't dabble. If he's proven anything over the course of a multiple Grammy Award-winning solo career, it's that he sees each of his eclectic projects through to its logical conclusion. So it is then that his appearance at the Barre Opera House in Vermont on January 14 was just the latest stop on a tour that has been in progress largely without interruption ...

Album Review

Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions

Read "The Unity Sessions" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
June 14, 2016

Il live in studio voluto da Pat Metheny per documentare il livello raggiunto dal gruppo nel corso del lungo tour mondiale che ha toccato 150 città vede ora la luce nella versione solo audio, dopo essere già stato pubblicato qualche mese fa come DVD/Blu Ray Disc. L'innesto del polistrumentista italiano Giulio Carmassi è bastato a trasformare il quartetto della Unity Band originaria nello Unity Group attuale, che raccoglie l'eredità del disciolto Pat Metheny Group diventandone la versione attualizzata e dal ...