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Pat Metheny
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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.
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.
Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious Monk–Live
by Keith Flint
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. ...
John Scofield: Meant To Be
by John Ephland
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 had ...
Jumpin' In: Inside the World of Dave Holland - Part 3
by Ludovico Granvassu
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 ...
A Language of His Own: Bill Frisell on Dave Holland
by Ludovico Granvassu
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 ...
Dave Holland: Freedom Call
by Angelo Leonardi
In occasione dell'ottantesimo compleanno di Dave Holland, la Edition Records pubblica Freedom Call, un cofanetto di sei LP, tre CD e in streaming, che riunisce inediti live di tre formazioni fondamentali della sua carriera: il sestetto con Mulgrew Miller, Alex Sipiagin, Antonio Hart, Robin Eubanks ed Eric Harland, la formazione che aveva inciso Pass It On; ...
Highlighting Brand X, Usein Bekirov, Kick The Cat, Pat Metheny, Andy Summers, Chick Corea
by Len Davis
A highlight on today's show is Brand X with music recorded in1977 North American Tour and and taken from reel to reel tapes from Robin Lumley archive, restored by Percy Jones. New music from Usein Bekirov and Italian bassist Federico Malaman, along with a long-awaited new track from Kick The Cat and Hungarian guitarist Mike Gotthard ...
Peter Sprague: Guinnevere
by Jim Trageser
Peter Sprague, the San Diego-based guitarist who has gigged with everyone from Chick Corea to Hubert Laws, Charles McPherson to Dianne Reeves, seems to be accelerating his recording output of late. He is averaging more than two albums a year as leader the past half-decade, plus guest appearances on numerous others. And all of this is ...
Joeykeysade: Orisun (Origin)
by Mike Jurkovic
On his smoothly cool debut Orisun (Origin), New York-based pianist/composer JoeyKeySade--pronounced “JOH-ee KEYS SHAH-deh"--certainly exhibits deft mastery and understanding of the myriad of musics between Broadway and West Africa. The problem presented, of course, is which style inevitably comes to the fore and dominates. What dominates the overall sound of Orisun (Origin) is an ...
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