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Musician

Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable on-the-bandstand experience at an unusually young age. Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility - a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues. With the release of his first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional "jazz guitar" sound for a new generation of players. Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to re-define the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. METHENY'S versatility is almost nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie. Metheny's body of work includes compositions for solo guitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, and ballet pieces, with settings ranging from modern jazz to rock to classical.

Album

Side-Eye III+

By Pat Metheny

Label: Uniquity Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: In On It; Don’t Look Down; Make A New World; Urban and Western; SE-O; Our Old Street: Risk And Reward; So Far So Good.

Article: In Pictures

Aubrey Johnson Sextet at The Jazz Loft

by Dan Bilawsky
November 4, 2026

What took place at The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, NY, on the evening of October 30, 2026, was less a concert than a nexus-level event. Vocalist Aubrey Johnson traveled to Long Island with bandmates in tow to celebrate the release of her stunning new sextet album, The Lively Air (Greenleaf, 2026); and she was also ...

Article: Album Review

Ernesto Cervini: Water Pistols at Dawn

Read "Water Pistols at Dawn" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
November 3, 2026

At some point in every jazz musician's life, the comfort of an established group gives way to the desire to start over. For drummer, composer and bandleader Ernesto Cervini, after more than two decades leading his original quartet, Water Pistols at Dawn marks just such a moment. His new quartet, featuring trumpeter Kae Murphy, guitarist Andrew ...

Article: Interview

Francesco Diodati: Making Room for the Unknown

by Angelo Leonardi
November 1, 2026

A central figure in Enrico Rava's groups for the past decade, Francesco Diodati is one of the most creative European guitarists of his generation. An eclectic artist, always open to new explorations, he has led two pivotal ensembles in contemporary Italian jazz, Neko and Yellow Squeeds. He has also been involved in countless projects, including those ...

News: Recording

The Ed Palermo Big Band Announces It’s An Ed Palermo Christmas! God Bless Us, Everyone!, Arriving November 13, 2026

October 23, 2026

The Ed Palermo Big Band will release It’s An Ed Palermo Christmas! God Bless Us, Everyone! on November 13, 2026, via Sky Cat Records. The 23-track holiday album brings together the ensemble's wide-ranging musical influences, original compositions, inventive arrangements, narration, and a Christmas performance tradition spanning more than thirty years. Ed Palermo is a saxophonist, composer, ...

Article: Interview

Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious Monk–Live

by Keith Flint
October 10, 2026

Guitarist Miles Okazaki, originally from Port Townsend, Washington, has become an integral figure in New York's creative music scene. Over the course of his career, he has toured and recorded with such artists as Kenny Barron, John Zorn, Steve Coleman, Miguel Zenón, Henry Threadgill, Patricia Brennan, Dan Weiss, Matt Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, and Darcy James Argue. ...

Article: Reanimating Conversations Past

John Scofield: Meant To Be

by John Ephland
October 5, 2026

When John Scofield and I met, in his Vancouver hotel room in June, 1990 on the occasion of the fifth annual du Maurier Ltd., International Jazz Festival, the conversation started with talk of his then-current band and his Blue Note debut, Time On My Hands (Blue Note Records, 1990). By this point, Sco, who ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jumpin' In: Inside the World of Dave Holland - Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 1, 2026

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 As Dave Holland turns 80, we celebrate a career that has kept jazz in constant motion for six decades. Enjoy this playlist that highlights his interest in other music genres, and his special relationship with guitar players. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison ...

Article: Interview

A Language of His Own: Bill Frisell on Dave Holland

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 1, 2026

As part of our Celebration of Dave Holland, we invited Bill Frisell to share a few thoughts about a musician who has been an important part of his musical world for decades. Bill had rather a lot to say, and it seemed a shame to stop at a few thoughts. So, rather than squeezing ...