Pat Metheny (Jazz Fusion {US})

Patrick Bruce Metheny ({/məˈθiːni/ mə-THEE-nee} nascido em 12 de agosto de 1954) é um guitarrista e compositor de jazz americano. Ele foi o líder do Pat Metheny Group (1977 a 2010) e continua a trabalhar em vários pequenos combos, duetos e configurações solo, bem como em outros projetos paralelos. Seu estilo incorpora elementos de jazz progressivo e contemporâneo, jazz latino e jazz fusion. Ele tem três álbuns de ouro e 20 prêmios Grammy, e é a única pessoa que ganhou Grammys em 10 categorias. Seu irmão mais velho é o flugelhornista de jazz Mike Metheny.

HISTÓRIA

PRIMEIROS ANOS E EDUCAÇÃO

Metheny nasceu em Lee's Summit, Missouri. Seu pai Dave tocava trompete, sua mãe Lois cantava e seu avô materno Delmar era trompetista profissional. O primeiro instrumento de Metheny foi o trompete, no qual foi ensinado por seu irmão, Mike. O irmão, o pai e o avô de Pat tocavam trios juntos em casa. Seus pais eram fãs de Glenn Miller e da música swing. Eles levavam Pat aos shows para ouvir Clark Terry e Doc Severinsen, mas tinham pouco respeito pela guitarra. O interesse de Pat pela guitarra aumentou por volta de 1964, quando viu os Beatles se apresentarem na TV. Em seu aniversário de 12 anos, seus pais permitiram que ele comprasse uma guitarra, que era uma Gibson ES-140 3/4.

A vida de Pat Metheny mudou depois de ouvir o álbum "Four & more" de Miles Davis. Logo depois, ele foi cativado pelo álbum "Smokin' at the half note" de Wes Montgomery, lançado em 1965. Ele cita The Beatles, Miles Davis e Montgomery como tendo o maior impacto em sua música.

Quando tinha 15 anos, Metheny ganhou uma bolsa de estudos da revista Down Beat para um acampamento de jazz de uma semana, onde foi orientado pelo guitarrista Attila Zoller, que o convidou para ir a Nova York para conhecer o guitarrista Jim Hall e o baixista Ron Carter.

Enquanto tocava em um clube em Kansas City, Metheny foi abordado por Bill Lee, reitor da Universidade de Miami, e lhe ofereceu uma bolsa de estudos. Depois de menos de uma semana na faculdade, Metheny percebeu que tocar violão o dia todo durante a adolescência o deixara despreparado para as aulas. Ele admitiu isso para Lee, que lhe ofereceu um emprego para lecionar como professor, já que a escola havia recentemente introduzido a guitarra elétrica como curso de estudo.

Ele se mudou para Boston para lecionar no Berklee College of Music com o vibrafonista de jazz Gary Burton e estabeleceu uma reputação de prodígio.

ÁLBUM DE ESTRÉIA

Em 1974, ele apareceu em um álbum não oficialmente intitulado "Jaco", com o pianista Paul Bley, o baixista Jaco Pastorius e o baterista Bruce Ditmas no selo Improvising Artists de Carol Goss - mas ele não sabia que estava sendo gravado. No ano seguinte ele se juntou à banda de Gary Burton com o guitarrista Mick Goodrick.

Metheny lançou seu álbum de estréia, "Bright size life" (ECM, 1976), com Jaco Pastorius no baixo e Bob Moses na bateria. Seu próximo álbum, "Watercolors" (ECM, 1977), foi a primeira vez que gravou com o pianista Lyle Mays, que se tornou seu colaborador mais frequente. O álbum também contou com Danny Gottlieb, que se tornou baterista da primeira versão do Pat Metheny Group. Com Metheny, Mays, Gottlieb e agora um quarto membro, o baixista Mark Egan, o álbum "Pat Metheny Group" (ECM, 1978) foi lançado.

PAT METHENY GROUP

Quando "Pat Metheny Group" (ECM, 1978) foi lançado, o grupo era um quarteto composto por Metheny, Danny Gottlieb na bateria, Mark Egan no baixo e Lyle Mays no piano, autoharpa e sintetizador. Todos, exceto Egan, tocaram no álbum "Watercolors" de Metheny (ECM, 1977), gravado um ano antes do primeiro álbum do grupo.

O segundo álbum do grupo, "American garage" (ECM, 1979), alcançou o primeiro lugar na parada de jazz da Billboard e passou para as paradas pop. De 1982 a 1985, o Pat Metheny Group lançou "Offramp" (ECM, 1982), um álbum ao vivo, "Travels" (ECM, 1983), "First circle" (ECM, 1984) e "The falcon and the snowman" (EMI, 1985), trilha sonora do filme de mesmo nome em que colaboraram no single "This is not America" com David Bowie. A canção alcançou a posição 14 no Top 40 britânico em 1985 e a posição 32 nos EUA.

"Offramp" marcou a primeira aparição do baixista Steve Rodby (no lugar de Egan) e do convidado brasileiro Naná Vasconcelos, na percussão e no vocal sem palavras. Em "First circle", o cantor e multi-instrumentista argentino Pedro Aznar se juntou ao grupo, enquanto o baterista Paul Wertico substituiu Gottlieb. Rodby e Wertico eram membros do Simon and Bard Group na época e haviam tocado no Simon-Bard em Chicago antes de ingressar no Pat Metheny Group.

"First circle" foi o último álbum de Metheny com a ECM: ele foi um artista importante para a gravadora, mas saiu após desentendimentos com o fundador da gravadora, Manfred Eicher.

"Still life (Talking)" (Geffen, 1987) contou com a participação dos novos membros do grupo, o trompetista Mark Ledford, o vocalista David Blamires e o percussionista Armando Marçal. Aznar voltou para voz e guitarra em "Letter from home" (Geffen, 1989).

Durante este período, a Steppenwolf Theatre Company de Chicago apresentou composições de Metheny e Mays para a produção da peça "Orphans" de Lyle Kessler, onde permaneceu como música especial opcional para todas as produções da peça ao redor do mundo desde então.

Metheny então mergulhou novamente em projetos solo e de banda, e quatro anos se passaram antes do lançamento do próximo disco do grupo, um álbum ao vivo intitulado "The road to you" (Geffen, 1993), que trazia faixas dos dois álbuns de estúdio da Geffen entre novas músicas. O grupo integrou nova instrumentação e tecnologias em seu trabalho, principalmente o uso de sintetizadores por Mays.

Os próprios Metheny e Mays referem-se aos próximos três lançamentos do Pat Metheny Group como um tríptico: "We live here" (Geffen, 1995), "Quartet" (Geffen, 1996) e "Imaginary day" (Warner Bros., 1997). Afastando-se do estilo latino que dominou os lançamentos dos dez anos anteriores, esses álbuns incluíam experimentos com bateria sintética sequenciada em uma faixa, improvisação de forma livre em instrumentos acústicos e assinaturas sinfônicas, blues e esquemas de sonata.

Com "Speaking of now" (Warner Bros., 2002), novos membros do grupo foram adicionados: o baterista Antonio Sánchez da Cidade do México, o trompetista Cuong Vu do Vietnã e o baixista, vocalista, guitarrista e percussionista Richard Bona dos Camarões.

"The way up" (Nonesuch, 2005) consiste em uma única peça de 68 minutos, dividida em quatro seções e baseada em um par de núcleos de três notas: a abertura B, A♯, F♯ e o B derivado, A, F♯. Em "The way up", o gaitista Grégoire Maret, da Suíça, foi apresentado como novo membro do grupo, enquanto Bona contribuiu como músico convidado.

PROJETOS PARALELOS

Fora do Group, Metheny mostrou diferentes lados de sua personalidade musical. Ele fez o álbum "Orchestrion" (Nonesuch, 2010) com instrumentos mecânicos elaborados e personalizados, permitindo que uma pessoa compusesse e tocasse como uma orquestra individual. Por outro lado, seu álbum "Secret story" (Geffen, 1992) usou arranjos orquestrais encontrados com mais frequência em trilhas sonoras de filmes, como o seu próprio "The falcon and the snowman" (EMI, 1985) e "A map of the world" (Warner Bros., 1999). Seus álbuns solo de violão incluem "New Chautauqua" (ECM, 1979), "One quiet night" (Warner Bros., 2003) e "What's it all about" (Nonesuch, 2011). Ele explorou as periferias da vanguarda em "Zero tolerance for silence" (Geffen, 1994). Este também foi um álbum de guitarra solo, mas era uma guitarra elétrica, e para muitos fãs e críticos era simplesmente barulho. Metheny já havia se aventurado na vanguarda antes em "80/81" (ECM, 1980), "Song X" (Geffen, 1986) com Ornette Coleman e "The sign of four" com Derek Bailey (Knitting Factory Works, 1997).

Em 1997, Metheny gravou com o baixista Marc Johnson no lançamento de Johnson "The sound of summer running" (Verve, 1998). No ano seguinte, gravou um dueto de guitarra com Jim Hall (Telarc, 1999), cujo trabalho influenciou fortemente o de Metheny. Ele colaborou com a cantora polonesa de jazz e folk Anna Maria Jopek em "Upojenie" (Warner Poland, 2002) e Bruce Hornsby em "Hot house" (RCA, 2005).

Gravou álbuns de seu irmão mais velho, Mike Metheny, trompetista de jazz, entre eles "Day in - Night out" (1986) e "Close enough for love" (2001).

A longa lista de seus colaboradores inclui Lyle Mays, Bill Frisell, Billy Higgins, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Dewey Redman, Eberhard Weber, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Jaco Pastorius, Jim Hall, John Scofield, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Joshua Redman, Marc Johnson, Michael Brecker, Mick Goodrick, Roy Haynes, Steve Swallow e Tony Williams.

UNITY BAND

Em 2012, formou a Unity Band com Antonio Sánchez na bateria, Ben Williams no baixo e Chris Potter no saxofone. Este conjunto viajou pela Europa e pelos EUA durante a segunda metade do ano. Em 2013, como extensão do projeto Unity Band, Metheny anunciou a formação do Pat Metheny Unity Group, com a adição do multi-instrumentista italiano Giulio Carmassi.

INFLUÊNCIAS

Quando jovem guitarrista, Metheny tentou soar como Wes Montgomery, mas quando tinha 14 ou 15 anos decidiu que era desrespeitoso imitá-lo. No encarte da compilação de dois discos de Montgomery "Impressions: The Verve jazz sides", Metheny é citado como tendo dito: "'Smokin' at the half note' é o melhor álbum de guitarra jazz já feito. É também o disco que me ensinou a tocar".

O álbum de 1968 de Ornette Coleman, "New York is now!" inspirou Metheny a encontrar sua própria direção. Ele gravou composições de Coleman em vários álbuns, começando com um medley de "Round trip" e "Broadway blues" em seu álbum de estréia, "Bright size life" (1976). Ele trabalhou extensivamente com colaboradores de Coleman, como Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman e Billy Higgins, e gravou o álbum "Song X" (1986) com Coleman e fez turnê com ele.

Metheny gravou três álbuns na ECM com o vocalista e percussionista brasileiro Naná Vasconcelos. Morou no Brasil do final da década de 1980 ao início da década de 1990 e se apresentou com diversos músicos locais, como Milton Nascimento e Toninho Horta. Tocou com Antônio Carlos Jobim em homenagem, em apresentação ao vivo no "Carnegie Hall salutes the jazz masters: Verve 50th anniversary".

Ele também é fã de vários artistas de música pop, especialmente cantores e compositores, incluindo James Taylor (em homenagem a quem deu o nome à música "James" em "Offramp"), Bruce Hornsby, Cheap Trick e Joni Mitchell, com quem se apresentou ao vivo na turnê "Shadows and light" (Asylum/Elektra, 1980) dela. Metheny também gosta da música de Buckethead. Também trabalhou, patrocinou ou ajudou a fazer gravações de cantores e compositores de todo o mundo, como Pedro Aznar (Argentina), Akiko Yano (Japão), David Bowie (Reino Unido), Silje Nergaard (Noruega), Noa (Israel) e Anna Maria Jopek (Polônia).

Dois dos álbuns de Metheny, "The way up" (2005) e "Orchestrion" (2010), mostram a influência do compositor minimalista americano Steve Reich e usam figuras rítmicas semelhantes estruturadas em torno da pulsação. Metheny gravou a composição "Electric counterpoint" de Reich no álbum "Different trains" de Reich (Nonesuch, 1987).

GUITARRAS

PIKASSO

Metheny toca uma Pikasso I de 42 cordas feita sob medida, criada pela luthier canadense Linda Manzer. Ele toca em "Into the dream" e nos álbuns "Quartet" (1996), "Imaginary day" (1997), "Jim Hall & Pat Metheny" (1999), "Trio → Live" (Warner Bros., 2000 ) e os DVDs "Speaking of now: live" e "Imaginary day: live". Metheny usou a guitarra em suas participações especiais em álbuns de outros artistas. Ele usou a Pikasso em "Metheny/Mehldau Quartet" (Nonesuch, 2007), sua segunda colaboração com o pianista Brad Mehldau e seus companheiros de trio Larry Grenadier e Jeff Ballard: a Pikasso aparece na composição "The sound of water" de Metheny. Manzer fez muitos violões para Metheny, incluindo um miniguitarra, um violão de cítara e o violão barítono, que Metheny usou para a gravação de "One quiet night" (2003).

SINTETIZADOR DE GUITARRA

Metheny foi um dos primeiros guitarristas de jazz a usar o sintetizador de guitarra Roland GR-300. Ele comentou: "É preciso parar de pensar nisso como uma guitarra, porque não é mais uma guitarra". Ele se aproxima como se fosse um trompista e prefere o som de "trompete agudo" do instrumento. Um dos "patches" que ele usa com frequência está na placa de expansão JV-80 Vintage Synth da Roland, intitulada Pat's GR-300. Além do Roland, ele usa um controlador Synclavier.

GUITARRAS ELÉTRICAS DE 6 E 12 CORDAS

Metheny foi um dos primeiros defensores da guitarra de doze cordas no jazz. Durante sua turnê de 1975 com o "Quarteto" de Gary Burton (cinco pessoas, incluindo Metheny), ele tocou principalmente guitarra elétrica de doze cordas contra o trabalho de seis cordas do guitarrista residente Mick Goodrick.

Antes de Metheny, Pat Martino usou a guitarra elétrica de doze cordas em um álbum de estúdio, "Desperado", e John McLaughlin usou uma guitarra elétrica de braço duplo com a Mahavishnu Orchestra. Ralph Towner foi talvez o primeiro a usar extensivamente o violão acústico de doze cordas no jazz ("The moors", de "I sing the body electric" da Weather Report, Columbia, 1972), e Larry Coryell e Philip Catherine fizeram uso extensivo da guitarra acústica de doze cordas em afinações alternativas no Festival de Jazz de Montreux de 1975, lançando posteriormente parte do material de seu álbum "Twin house" de 1976.

Metheny usou uma guitarra de doze cordas em seu álbum de estréia, "Bright size life" (1976), incluindo afinação alternativa em "Sirabhorn" e em álbuns posteriores ("San Lorenzo" e "Travels", do Pat Metheny Group).

USO DE GUITARRAS ELÉTRICAS DE CORPO OCO

Aos 12 anos, Metheny comprou uma Gibson ES-175 com acabamento natural, que tocou ao longo de seu início de carreira, até sua aposentadoria em 1995. Após sua primeira turnê pelo Japão em 1978, ele iniciou uma associação com guitarras Ibanez, que desde então produziu uma série de modelos de assinatura PM.

VIDA PESSOAL

Metheny mora na cidade de Nova York com sua esposa, Latifa (nascida Azhar), e três filhos. Latifa foi creditada pela fotografia do álbum. Metheny teve um relacionamento com a atriz brasileira Sônia Braga.

PRÊMIOS E HONRAS

• Único artista a ganhar prêmios Grammy em dez categorias diferentes
• Hall da Fama do DownBeat, 2013
• Prêmio Miles Davis, Festival Internacional de Jazz de Montreal, 1995
• Prêmio Orville H. Gibson, 1996
• "Doutor Honorário em Música" pela Berklee College of Music, 1996
• "Guitarrista do ano", pesquisa dos leitores da DownBeat, 1983, 1986-1991, 2007-2016
• "Melhor guitarrista de jazz", revista Guitar Player, 1982, 1983, 1986
• "Melhor guitarrista de jazz", pesquisa dos leitores da revista Guitar Player, 1984, 1985, 2009
• "Melhor violonista", pesquisa dos leitores da revista Acoustic Guitar, 2009
• Prêmio Echo de "Melhor instrumentista de guitarra" - Internacional por "TAP: John Zorn's book of angels vol. 20", 2014
• Prêmio Echo, "Conjunto internacional do ano", Kin, 2015
• Hall da Fama da Música do Missouri, 2016
• Prêmio pelo conjunto de sua obra, JazzFM, 2018
• Eleito para a Real Academia Sueca de Música, 2018
• 2018 NEA Jazz Masters, 2017
• "Doutorado Honorário em Música" da McGill University, 2019

PRÊMIOS GRAMMY

• 2013 - "Melhor álbum instrumental de jazz" por "Unity Band" da Unity Band
• 2012 - "Melhor álbum new age" por "What's it all about"
• 2008 - "Melhor álbum instrumental de jazz" por "Pilgrimage" de Michael Bracker (ganhou como produtor)
• 2006 - "Melhor álbum de jazz contemporâneo" por "The way up" do Pat Metheny Group
• 2004 - "Melhor álbum new age" por "One quiet night"
• 2003 - "Melhor álbum de jazz contemporâneo" por "Speaking of now" do Pat Metheny Group
• 2001 - "Melhor solo instrumental de jazz" por "(Go) Get it" do Trio 99 → 00 (ganhou como solista)
• 2000 - "Melhor performance instrumental de jazz" por "Like minds" (com Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Gary Burton, Roy Haynes)
• 1999 - "Melhor performance instrumental de rock" por "The roots of coincidence" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1999 - "Melhor performance de jazz contemporâneo" por "Imaginary day" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1998 - "Melhor performance instrumental de jazz" por "Beyond the Missouri sky" (com Charlie Haden)
• 1996 - "Melhor performance de jazz contemporâneo" por "We live here" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1994 - "Melhor performance de jazz contemporâneo" por "The road to you" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1993 - "Melhor performance de jazz contemporâneo" por "Secret story"
• 1991 - “Melhor composição instrumental” por “Change of heart” (ganhou como compositor)
• 1989 - "Melhor performance de jazz fusion" por "Letter from home" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1988 - "Melhor performance de jazz fusion" por "Still life (Talking)" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1985 - "Melhor performance de jazz fusion" por "First circle" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1984 - "Melhor performance de jazz fusion" por "Travels" do Pat Metheny Group
• 1983 - "Melhor performance de jazz fusion" por "Offramp" do Pat Metheny Group

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Patrick Bruce Metheny ({/məˈθiːni/ mə-THEE-nee} born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977 to 2010) and continues to work in various small-combo, duet, and solo settings, as well as other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, latin jazz, and jazz fusion. He has three Gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards, and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories. His older brother is jazz flugelhornist Mike Metheny.

HISTORY

EARLY YEARS AND EDUCATION

Metheny was born in Lee's Summit, Missouri. His father Dave played trumpet, his mother Lois sang, and his maternal grandfather Delmar was a professional trumpeter. Metheny's first instrument was the trumpet, on which he was taught by his brother, Mike. Pat's brother, father, and grandfather played trios together at home. His parents were fans of Glenn Miller and swing music. They took Pat to concerts to hear Clark Terry and Doc Severinsen, but they had little respect for guitar. Pat's interest in guitar increased around 1964 when he saw The Beatles perform on TV. For his 12th birthday, his parents allowed him to buy a guitar, which was a Gibson ES-140 3/4.

Pat Metheny's life changed after hearing the album "Four & more" by Miles Davis. Soon after, he was captivated by Wes Montgomery's album "Smokin' at the half note" which was released in 1965. He cites The Beatles, Miles Davis, and Montgomery as having the biggest impact on his music.

When he was 15, Metheny won a scholarship from Down Beat magazine to a one-week jazz camp where he was mentored by guitarist Attila Zoller, who then invited him to New York City to meet guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Ron Carter.

While playing at a club in Kansas City, Metheny was approached by Bill Lee, a dean at the University of Miami, and offered a scholarship. After less than a week at college, Metheny realized that playing guitar all day during his teens had left him unprepared for classes. He admitted this to Lee, who offered him a job to teach as a professor, as the school had recently introduced electric guitar as a course of study.

He moved to Boston to teach at the Berklee College of Music with jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton and established a reputation as a prodigy.

DEBUT ALBUM

In 1974, he appeared on an album unofficially titled "Jaco", with pianist Paul Bley, bassist Jaco Pastorius, and drummer Bruce Ditmas on Carol Goss's Improvising Artists label - but he was unaware that he was being recorded. The next year he joined Gary Burton's band with guitarist Mick Goodrick.

Metheny released his debut album, "Bright size life" (ECM, 1976), with Jaco Pastorius on bass guitar and Bob Moses on drums. His next album, "Watercolors" (ECM, 1977), was the first time he recorded with pianist Lyle Mays, who became his most frequent collaborator. The album also featured Danny Gottlieb, who became the drummer for the first version of the Pat Metheny Group. With Metheny, Mays, Gottlieb and now a fourth member, bassist Mark Egan, the album "Pat Metheny Group" (ECM, 1978) was released.

PAT METHENY GROUP

When "Pat Metheny Group" (ECM, 1978) was released, the group was a quartet consisting of Metheny, Danny Gottlieb on drums, Mark Egan on bass and Lyle Mays on piano, autoharp and synthesizer. All but Egan had played on Metheny's album "Watercolors" (ECM, 1977), recorded a year before the first group album.

The second group album, "American garage" (ECM, 1979), reached number 1 on the Billboard jazz chart and crossed over onto the pop charts. From 1982 to 1985, the Pat Metheny Group released the live album "Offramp" (ECM, 1982), "Travels" (ECM, 1983), "First circle" (ECM, 1984), and "The falcon and the snowman" (EMI, 1985), a soundtrack album for the movie of the same name in which they collaborated on the single "This is not America" with David Bowie. The song reached number 14 in the British Top 40 in 1985 and number 32 in the U.S.

"Offramp" marked the first appearance of bassist Steve Rodby (replacing Egan) and a Brazilian guest artist, Naná Vasconcelos, on percussion and wordless vocals. On "First circle", Argentinian singer and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Aznar joined the group as drummer Paul Wertico replaced Gottlieb. Both Rodby and Wertico were members of the Simon and Bard Group at the time and had played in Simon-Bard in Chicago before joining Pat Metheny Group.

"First circle" was Metheny's last album with ECM: he had been a key artist for the label but left following disagreements with the label's founder, Manfred Eicher.

"Still life (Talking)" (Geffen, 1987) featured new group members trumpeter Mark Ledford, vocalist David Blamires, and percussionist Armando Marçal. Aznar returned for vocals and guitar on "Letter from home" (Geffen, 1989).

During this period the Steppenwolf Theater Company of Chicago featured compositions by Metheny and Mays for their production of Lyle Kessler's play "Orphans", where it has remained special optional music for all productions of the play around the world since.

Metheny then again delved into solo and band projects, and four years went by before the release of the next group record, a live album titled "The road to you" (Geffen, 1993), which featured tracks from the two Geffen studio albums among new tunes. The group integrated new instrumentation and technologies into its work, notably Mays' use of synthesizers.

Metheny and Mays themselves refer to the next three Pat Metheny Group releases as a triptych: "We live here" (Geffen, 1995), "Quartet" (Geffen, 1996), and "Imaginary day" (Warner Bros., 1997). Moving away from the Latin style which had dominated the releases of the previous ten years, these albums included experiments with sequenced synthetic drums on one track, free-form improvisation on acoustic instruments, and symphonic signatures, blues, and sonata schemes.

With "Speaking of now" (Warner Bros., 2002), new group members were added: drummer Antonio Sánchez from Mexico City, trumpeter Cuong Vu from Vietnam, and bassist, vocalist, guitarist, and percussionist Richard Bona from Cameroon.

"The way up" (Nonesuch, 2005) consists of a single 68-minute-long piece, split into four sections and based on a pair of three-note kernels: the opening B, A♯, F♯ and the derived B, A, F♯. On "The way up", harmonica player Grégoire Maret from Switzerland was introduced as a new group member, while Bona contributed as a guest musician.

SIDE PROJECTS

Outside the Group, Metheny has shown different sides of his musical personality. He made the album "Orchestrion" (Nonesuch, 2010) with elaborate, custom mechanical instruments, allowing one person to compose and perform as a one-person orchestra. By contrast, his album "Secret story" (Geffen, 1992) used orchestral arrangements found more often in movie soundtracks, such as his own "The falcon and the snowman" (EMI, 1985) and "A map of the world" (Warner Bros., 1999). His solo acoustic guitar albums include "New Chautauqua" (ECM, 1979), "One quiet night" (Warner Bros., 2003), and "What's it all about" (Nonesuch, 2011). He explored the fringes of the avant-garde on "Zero tolerance for silence" (Geffen, 1994). This, too, was an album of solo guitar, but it was electric guitar, and to many fans and critics it was simply noise. Metheny had ventured into the avant-garde before on "80/81" (ECM, 1980), "Song X" (Geffen, 1986) with Ornette Coleman, and "The sign of four" with Derek Bailey (Knitting Factory Works, 1997).

In 1997, Metheny recorded with bassist Marc Johnson on Johnson's release "The sound of summer running" (Verve, 1998). The next year, he recorded a guitar duet with Jim Hall (Telarc, 1999), whose work has strongly influenced Metheny's. He collaborated with Polish jazz and folk singer Anna Maria Jopek on "Upojenie" (Warner Poland, 2002) and Bruce Hornsby on "Hot house" (RCA, 2005).

He recorded on albums by his older brother, Mike Metheny, a jazz trumpeter, among them "Day in - Night out" (1986) and "Close enough for love" (2001).

The long list of his collaborators includes Lyle Mays, Bill Frisell, Billy Higgins, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Dewey Redman, Eberhard Weber, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Jaco Pastorius, Jim Hall, John Scofield, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Joshua Redman, Marc Johnson, Michael Brecker, Mick Goodrick, Roy Haynes, Steve Swallow, and Tony Williams.

UNITY BAND

In 2012, he formed the Unity Band with Antonio Sánchez on drums, Ben Williams on bass and Chris Potter on saxophone. This ensemble toured Europe and the U.S. during the latter half of the year. In 2013, as an extension of the Unity Band project, Metheny announced the formation of the Pat Metheny Unity Group, with the addition of the Italian multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi.

INFLUENCES

As a young guitarist, Metheny tried to sound like Wes Montgomery, but when he was 14 or 15, he decided it was disrespectful to imitate him. In the liner notes on the 2-disc Montgomery compilation "Impressions: The Verve jazz sides", Metheny is quoted as saying, "'Smokin' at the half note' is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play".

Ornette Coleman's 1968 album "New York is now!" inspired Metheny to find his own direction. He has recorded Coleman's compositions on a number of albums, starting with a medley of "Round trip" and "Broadway blues" on his debut album, "Bright size life" (1976). He worked extensively with Coleman's collaborators, such as Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, and Billy Higgins, and he recorded the album "Song X" (1986) with Coleman and toured with him.

Metheny made three albums on ECM with Brazilian vocalist and percussionist Naná Vasconcelos. He lived in Brazil from the late 1980s to the early 1990s and performed with several local musicians, such as Milton Nascimento and Toninho Horta. He played with Antônio Carlos Jobim as a tribute, in a live performance in "Carnegie Hall salutes the jazz masters: Verve 50th anniversary".

He is also a fan of several pop music artists, especially singer and songwriters including James Taylor (after whom he named the song "James" on "Offramp"), Bruce Hornsby, Cheap Trick, and Joni Mitchell, with whom he performed on her "Shadows and light" (Asylum/Elektra, 1980) live tour. Metheny is also fond of Buckethead's music. He also worked with, sponsored or helped to make recordings of singer and songwriters from all over the world, such as Pedro Aznar (Argentina), Akiko Yano (Japan), David Bowie (UK), Silje Nergaard (Norway), Noa (Israel), and Anna Maria Jopek (Poland).

Two of Metheny's albums, "The way up" (2005) and "Orchestrion" (2010), show the influence of American minimalist composer Steve Reich and use similar rhythmic figures structured around pulse. Metheny recorded Reich's composition "Electric counterpoint" on Reich's album "Different trains" (Nonesuch, 1987).

GUITARS

PIKASSO

Metheny plays a custom-made 42-string Pikasso I created by Canadian luthier Linda Manzer. He plays it on "Into the dream" and on the albums "Quartet" (1996), "Imaginary day" (1997), "Jim Hall & Pat Metheny" (1999), "Trio → Live" (Warner Bros., 2000), and the "Speaking of now: live" and "Imaginary day: live" DVDs. Metheny has used the guitar in his guest appearances on other artists' albums. He used the Pikasso on "Metheny/Mehldau Quartet" (Nonesuch, 2007), his second collaboration with pianist Brad Mehldau and his trio sidemen Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard: the Pikasso is featured on Metheny's composition "The sound of water". Manzer has made many acoustic guitars for Metheny, including a mini guitar, an acoustic sitar guitar, and the baritone guitar, which Metheny used for the recording of "One quiet night" (2003).

GUITAR SYNTHESIZER

Metheny was one of the first jazz guitarists to use the Roland GR-300 Guitar Synthesizer. He commented, "You have to stop thinking about it as a guitar, because it no longer is a guitar". He approaches it as if he were a horn player, and he prefers the "high trumpet" sound of the instrument. One of the "patches" that he has often used is on Roland's JV-80 Vintage Synth expansion card, titled Pat's GR-300. In addition to the Roland, he uses a Synclavier controller.

6-STRING AND 12-STRING ELECTRIC GUITARS

Metheny was an early proponent of the twelve-string guitar in jazz. During his 1975 tour with the Gary Burton "Quartet" (five people, including Metheny), he primarily played electric twelve-string guitar against the six-string work of resident guitarist Mick Goodrick.

Prior to Metheny, Pat Martino had used the electric twelve-string guitar on a studio album, "Desperado", and John McLaughlin had used a double-neck electric guitar with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Ralph Towner was perhaps the first to use acoustic twelve-string guitar extensively in jazz ("The moors", from Weather Report's "I sing the body electric", Columbia, 1972), and Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine made extensive use of acoustic twelve string in alternate tunings at the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival, later releasing some of the material on their 1976 "Twin house" album.

Metheny used a twelve-string guitar on his debut album, "Bright size life" (1976), including alternate tuning on "Sirabhorn", and on later albums ("San Lorenzo", from Pat Metheny Group and "Travels").

USE OF HOLLOW-BODY ELECTRIC GUITARS

At the age of 12, Metheny bought a natural finish Gibson ES-175 that he played throughout his early career, until it was retired in 1995. After his first tour of Japan in 1978, he began an association with Ibanez guitars, who have since produced a range of PM signature models.

PERSONAL LIFE

Metheny lives in New York City with his wife, Latifa (née Azhar), and three children. Latifa has been credited for album photography. Metheny had a relationship with the Brazilioan actress Sônia Braga.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Only artist to win Grammy Awards in ten different categories
• DownBeat Hall of Fame, 2013
• Miles Davis Award, Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1995
• Orville H. Gibson Award, 1996
• "Honorary Doctorate of Music" from Berklee College of Music, 1996
• "Guitarist of the year", DownBeat readers' poll, 1983, 1986-1991, 2007-2016
• "Best jazz guitarist", Guitar Player magazine, 1982, 1983, 1986
• "Best jazz guitarist", Guitar Player magazine readers' poll, 1984, 1985, 2009
• "Best acoustic guitarist", Acoustic Guitar magazine readers' poll, 2009
• Echo Award for "Best guitar instrumentalist" - International for "TAP: John Zorn's book of angels vol. 20", 2014
• Echo Award, "International ensemble of the year", Kin, 2015
• Missouri Music Hall of Fame, 2016
• Lifetime Achievement Award, JazzFM, 2018
• Elected into Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 2018
• 2018 NEA Jazz Masters, 2017
• "Honorary Doctorate of Music" from McGill University, 2019

GRAMMY AWARDS

• 2013 - "Best jazz instrumental album" fot "Unity Band" by Unity Band
• 2012 - "Best new age album" for "What's it all about"
• 2008 - "Best jazz instrumental album" for "Pilgrimage" by Michael Bracker (won as producer)
• 2006 - "Best contemporary jazz album" for "The way up" by Pat Metheny Group
• 2004 - "Best new age album" for "One quiet night"
• 2003 - "Best contemporary jazz album" for "Speaking of now" by Pat Metheny Group
• 2001 - "Best jazz instrumental solo" for "(Go) Get it" by Trio 99 → 00 (won as soloist)
• 2000 - "Best jazz instrumental performance" for "Like minds" (with Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Gary Burton, Roy Haynes)
• 1999 - "Best rock instrumental performance" for "The roots of coincidence" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1999 - "Best contemporary jazz performance" for "Imaginary day" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1998 - "Best jazz instrumental performance" for "Beyond the Missouri sky" (with Charlie Haden)
• 1996 - "Best contemporary jazz performance" for "We live here" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1994 - "Best contemporary jazz performance" for "The road to you" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1993 - "Best contemporary jazz performance" for "Secret story"
• 1991 - "Best instrumental composition" for "Change of heart" (won as composer)
• 1989 - "Best jazz fusion performance" for "Letter from home" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1988 - "Best jazz fusion performance" for "Still life (Talking)" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1985 - "Best jazz fusion performance" for "First circle" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1984 - "Best jazz fusion performance" for "Travels" by Pat Metheny Group
• 1983 - "Best jazz fusion performance" for "Offramp" by Pat Metheny Group

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ALBUMS

PAT METHENY

Bright size

life (1976)

[1990, ECM Records]

01. Bright

size life

02. Sirabhorn

03. Unity village

04. Missouri

uncompromised

05. Midwestern

nights dream

06. Unquity road

07. Omaha

celebration

08. Round trip/

Broadway

blues

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Bright size

life (1976)

[2017, ECM Records]

(88 kHz/24 bit)

01. Bright

size life

02. Sirabhorn

03. Unity village

04. Missouri

uncompromised

05. Midwestern

nights dream

06. Unquity road

07. Omaha

celebration

08. Round trip/

Broadway

blues

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Watercolors (1977)

[1977, ECM Records]

01. Watercolors

02. Icefire

03. Oasis

04. Lakes

05. River Quay

06. Suite:

a) Florida

greeting song

07. b) Legend

of the fountain

08.  Sea song

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New Chautauqua (1979)

[1999, ECM Records]

01. New Chautauqua

02. Country poem

03. Long-ago child/

Fallen star

04. Hermitage

05. Sueño

con Mexico

06. Daybreak

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80-81 (1980)

[1980, ECM Records]

01. Two folk

songs: 1st & 2nd

02. 80/81

03. The bat

04. Turn

around

05. Open

06. Pretty

scattered

07. Every day

(I thank you)

08. Goin'

ahead

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Rejoicing (1984)

[1984, ECM Records]

01. Lonely woman

02. Tears inside

03. Humpty dumpty

04. Blues for Pat

05. Rejoicing

06. Story from

a stranger

07. The calling

08. Waiting for

an answer

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Secret story (1992)

[1992, Geffen Records]

01. Above

the treetops

02. Facing west

03. Cathedral in a suitcase

04. Finding and believing

05. The longest summer

06. Sunlight

07. Rain river

08. Always

and forever

09. See the world

10. As a flower blossoms

(I am running to you)

11. Antonia

12. The truth

will always be

13. Tell her you saw me

14. Not to be forgotten

(Our final hour)

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Secret story

{deluxe edition} (1992)

[2007, Nonesuch Records]

CD 01

01. Above

the treetops

02. Facing west

03. Cathedral in a suitcase

04. Finding and believing

05. The longest summer

06. Sunlight

07. Rain river

08. Always

and forever

09. See the world

10. As a flower blossoms

(I am running to you)

11. Antonia

12. The truth

will always be

13. Tell her you saw me

14. Not to be forgotten

(Our final hour)

CD 02

01. Back in time

02. Look ahead

03. Understanding

04. A change in

circumstance

05. Et si c'etait la fin

(As if it were

the end)

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Zero tolerance

for silence (1994)

[1994, Geffen Records]

01. Part 1

02. Part 2

03. Part 3

04. Part 4

05. Part 5

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Passaggio per il

paradiso (1996)

[1994, Geffen Records]

01. Theme

from "Passaggio

per il paradiso"

02. Marta's theme

03. The roads of Marche

04. Marta's house story

05. Wolf story

06. Marta's

stag story

07. Learning

on the road

08. Private eye

09. Marta on the bus

10. Remembering home,

meeting the kids

11. Renato's theme

12. It's always

worth the trouble

13. Don't forget

(Renato's theme}

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One quiet

night (2003)

[2003, Warner Bros. Records]

01. One quiet night

02. Song for the boys

03. Don't know why

04. Another chance

05. And time goes on

06. My song

07. Peace memory

08. Ferry cross the mersey

09. Over on 4th street

10. I will find the way

11. North to South,

east to West

12. Last train

home

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Orchestrion (2010)

[2010, Nonesuch Records]

01. Orchestrion

02. Entry point

03. Expansion

04. Soul search

05. Spirit of

the air

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What's it

all about (2011)

[2011, Nonesuch Records]

01. The sound

of silence

02. Cherish

03. Alfie

04. Pipeline

05. Garota

de Ipanema

06. Rainy days

and mondays

07. That's the way

I've always heard

it should be

08. Slow hot wind

09. Betcha by

Golly, wow

10. And I

love her

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The orchestrion

project (2012)

[2012, Nonesuch Records]

CD 01

01. Improvisation

(part 1)

02. Antonia

03. Entry point

04. Expansion

05. Improvisation

(part 2)

06. 80/81/

Broadway blues

07. Orchestrion

CD 02

01. Soul search

02. Spirit of the air

03. Stranger in town

04. Sueño con Mexico

05. Tell her you saw me

06. Unity village

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Dream box (2023)

[2023, Modern Recordings]

01. The waves

are not the ocean

02. From the mountains

03. Ole & Gard

04. Trust your angels

05. Never was love

06. I fall in

love too easily

07. P.C. of Belgium

08. Morning of

the carnival

09. Clouds can't

change the sky

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PAT METHENY

GROUP

Live in

concert (1977)

[1977, ECM Records]

01. Phase dancer

02. Watercolors

03. San Lorenzo

04. Wrong is right

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Pat Metheny

Group (1978)

[1985, ECM Records]

01. San Lorenzo

02. Phase dance

03. Jaco

04. April wind

05. April joy

06. Lone

Jack

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Pat Metheny

Group (1978)

[2017, ECM Records]

(352 kHz/24 bit)

01. San Lorenzo

02. Phase dance

03. Jaco

04. April wind

05. April joy

06. Lone

Jack

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American

garage (1979)

[1999, ECM Records]

01. (Cross the)

Heartland

02. Airstream

03. The search

04. American

garage

05. The epic

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Offramp (1982)

[1984, ECM Records]

01. Barcarole

02. Are you

going

with me?

03. Au lait

04. Eighteen

05. Offramp

06. James

07. The bat

(part 2)

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Offramp (1982)

[2017, ECM Records]

(176 kHz/24 bit)

01. Barcarole

02. Are you

going

with me?

03. Au lait

04. Eighteen

05. Offramp

06. James

07. The bat

(part 2)

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Travels (1983)

[1986, ECM Records]

CD 01

01. Are you

going with me?

02. The fields,

the sky

03. Goodbye

04. Phase dance

05. Straight on red

06. Farmer's trust

CD 02

01. Extradition

02. Goin' ahead/

As falls Wichita,

so falls Wichita falls

03. Travels

04. Song for Bilbao

05. San Lorenzo

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Travels (1983)

[2018, ECM Records]

(176 kHz/24 bit)

CD 01

01. Are you

going with me?

02. The fields,

the sky

03. Goodbye

04. Phase dance

05. Straight on red

06. Farmer's trust

CD 02

01. Extradition

02. Goin' ahead/

As falls Wichita,

so falls Wichita falls

03. Travels

04. Song for Bilbao

05. San Lorenzo

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First circle (1984)

[1985, ECM Records]

01. Forward march

02. Yolanda, you learn

03. The first circle

04. If I could

05. Tell it all

06. End of the game

07. Más allá (Beyond)

08. Praise

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The falcon and

the snowman (1985)

[1987, EMI Records]

01. PSalm 121/

Flight of the falcon

02. Daulton Lee

03. Chris

04. "The falcon"

05. This is not America

06. Extent of the lie

07. The level

of deception

08. Capture

09. Epilogue

(PSalm 121)

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Still life

(Talking) (1987)

[1993, Geffen Records]

01. Minuano

(Six eight)

02. So may it

secretly begin

03. Last train home

04. (It's just) Talk

05. Third wind

06. Distance

07. In her

family

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Letter from

home (1989)

[1990, Geffen Records]

01. Have you heard?

02. Every summer night

03. Better days ahead

04. Spring ain't here

05. 45/8

06. 5-5-7

07. Beat 70

08. Dream of

the return

09. Are we

there yet?

10. Vidala

11. Slip away

12. Letter from

home

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The road to you

{recorded live

in Europe} (1993)

[1993, Geffen Records]

01. Have

you heard?

02. First circle

03. The road to you

04. Half life of absolution

05. Last train home

06. Better days ahead

07. Naked moon

08. Beat 70

09. Letter

from home

10. Third wind

11. Solo from

"More travels"

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Unity village (1993)

[1998, Agat Company Ltd.]

01. Phase dance

02. Missouri

03. Unity village

04. Guitar solo

05. The epic

06. Jaco

07. American

garage

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We live

here (1995)

[1995, Geffen Records]

01. Here to stay

02. And then I knew

03. The girls next door

04. To the end

of the world

05. We live here

06. Episode d'azur

07. Something

to remind you

08. Red sky

09. Stranger

in town

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Quartet (1996)

[1996, Geffen Records]

01. Introduction

02. When we were free

03. Montevideo

04. Take me there

05. Seven days

06. Oceania

07. Dismantling

utopia

08. Double blind

09. Second

thought

10. Mojave

11. Badland

12. Glacier

13. Language of time

14. Sometimes I see

15. As I am

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Imaginary day (1997)

[1997, Warner Bros. Records]

01. Imaginary day

02. Follow me

03. Into the dream

04. A story

within the story

05. The heat of the day

06. Across the sky

07. The roots of coincidence

08. Too soon tomorrow

09. The awakening

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Speaking

of now (2002)

[2002, Warner Bros. Records]

01. As it is

02. Proof

03. Another life

04. The gathering

sky

05. You

06. On her way

07. A place

in the world

08. Afternoon

09. Wherever

you go

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The way up (2005)

[2005, Nonesuch Records]

01. Opening

02. Part one

03. Part two

04. Part three

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SIDE

PROJECTS

Jaco (1974)

[1995, Jazz Door Records]

{Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny,

Paul Bley & Bruce Ditmas}

01. Vashkar

02. Poconos

03. Donkey

04. Vampira

05. Overtoned

06. Jaco

07. Batterie

08. King Korn

09. Blood

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As falls Wichita, so

falls Wichita falls (1981)

[1981, ECM Records]

{Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays}

01. As falls Wichita,

so falls Wichita falls

02. Ozark

03. September fifteenth

(dedicated to Bill Evans)

04. "It's for you"

05. Estupenda

graça

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Song X (1986)

[1986, Geffen Records]

(Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman)

01. Song X

02. Mob job

03. Endangered

species

04. Video games

05. Kathelin Gray

06. Trigonometry

07. Song X duo

08. Long time

no see

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Question and

answer (1990)

[1990, Geffen Records]

(Pat Metheny, Dave Holland

& Roy Haynes)

01. Solar

02. Question

and answer

03. H & H

04. Never

too far away

05. Law years

06. Change of heart

07. All the things

you are

08. Old folks

09. Three

flights up

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I can see your

house from here (1994)

[1994, Capitol Records]

(John Scofield & Pat Metheny)

01. I can see your

house from here

02. The red one

03. No matter what

04. Everybody's party

05. Message

to my friend

06. No way Jose

07. Say the

brother's name

08. S.C.O.

09. Quiet rising

10. One way to be

11. You speak my

language

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I can see your

house from here (1994)

[2014, Universal Music]

(John Scofield & Pat Metheny)

01. I can see your

house from here

02. The red one

03. No matter what

04. Everybody's party

05. Message

to my friend

06. No way Jose

07. Say the

brother's name

08. S.C.O.

09. Quiet rising

10. One way to be

11. You speak my

language

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Beyond the

Missouri sky (1997)

[1997, Verve Records]

(Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny)

01. Waltz for Ruth

02. Our Spanish love song

03. Message to a friend

04. Two for the road

05. First song (for Ruth)

06. The moon is

a harsh mistress

07. The precious jewel

08. He's gone away

09. The moon song

10. Tears of rain

11. Cinema

Paradiso (Love theme)

12. Cinema Paradiso

(Main theme)

13. Spiritual

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Metheny Mehldau

Quartet (2007)

[2007, Nonesuch Records]

(Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau)

01. A night away

02. The sound of water

03. Fear and trembling

04. So much music

05. Towards the light

06. Long before

07. En la tierra

que no olvida

08. Santa Cruz slacker

09. Secret beach

10. Silent movie

11. Marta's theme

(from "Passagio per

il paradiso")

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Day trip (2008)

[2008, Nonesuch Records]

(Pat Metheny, Christian McBride

& Antonio Sanchez)

01. Son

of thirteen

02. At last

you're here

03. Let's move

04. Snova

05. Calvin's keys

06. Is this America?

(Katrina 2005)

07. When we were free

08. Dreaming trees

09. The red one

10. Day trip

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Unity Band (2012)

[2012, Nonesuch Records]

(Pat Metheny's Unity Band)

01. New year

02. Roofdogs

03. Come and see

04. This belongs to you

05. Leaving town

06. Interval waltz

07. Signals

(Orchestrion sketch)

08. Then and now

09. Breakdealer

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Hommage à

Eberhard Weber (2015)

[2015, ECM Records]

(Pat Metheny & SWR Big Band)

01. Resumé

variations

02. Hommage

03. Touch

04. Maurizius

05. Tübingen

06. Notes after

an evening

07. Street scenes

(bonus)

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Cuong Vu Trio

meets Pat Metheny (2016)

[2016, Nonesuch Records]

(Cuong Vu Trio & Pat Metheny)

01. Acid kiss

02. Not crazy

(Just giddy upping)

03. Seeds of doubt

04. Tiny little pieces

05. Telescope

06. Let's get back

07. Tune blues

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COLLECTIONS

Works (1984)

[1984, ECM Records]

01. Sueño

con Mexico

02. (Cross the)

Heartland

03. Travels

04. James

05. "It's for you"

06. Everyday

(I thank you)

07. Goin'

ahead

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Works II (1988)

[1988, ECM Records]

01. Unquity road

02. Unity village

03. Open

04. Story from

a stranger

05. Oasis

06. Sirabhorn

07. Farmer's

trust

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Pat Metheny [MP3]: enjoy!

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Pat Metheny Group [MP3]: enjoy!

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Pat Metheny Group - live at Montreal Jazz Fest - 1982

Pat Metheny Group - Have you heard? - 1992