Pat methany biography

Music Credit:

“Icefire” composed and performed by Pat Metheny, from the album, Watercolors, used courtesy of ECM and by permission of Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing a/c Pat Meth Music Corp, BMI.

“Walter L” composed by Gary Burton and performed by Burton, Steve Swallow, Pat Metheny and Antonio Sanchez, from the album Quartet Live, used courtesy of Concord Records and used by permission of Grayfriar Music, BMI.

“Missouri Uncompromised” written by Pat Metheny, performed by Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and Bob Moses from the album Bright Size Life. Used courtesy of ECM.

“Airstream,” written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, performed by the Pat Metheny Group. Used courtesy of ECM.

“Geneology” written by Pat Metheny, performed by Pat Metheny and the Unity Group. Used courtesy of Nonesuch.

“One Quiet Night” written and performed by Pat Metheny, from the album One Quiet Night. Used courtesy of Warner Brothers.

“Spirit of the Air,” written and performed by Pat Metheny from the album Orchestrion. Used courtesy of Nonesuch.

“Song X composed by Ornette Coleman and performed by Metheny, Coleman, Haden, D. Coleman and Jack Dejohnette, from Song X, used courtesy of Nonesuch/WBR and used by permission of Phrase Text Music a/c Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing , ASCAP.

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Jo Reed: You’re listening to 2018 NEA Jazz Master, guitarist and composer, Pat Metheny and this is Art Works the weekly podcast from the National Endowment for the Arts. I’m Josephine Reed.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Pat Metheny reinvented the traditional sound of jazz guitar. Whether playing his own compositions or one of his wildly inventive improvisations, Pat Metheny shows a deep musicality while pushing the boundaries of jazz guitar. He is one of the few artists who has achieved crossover popularity with three gold records as well as critical acclaim. Over the course of his career, Pat Metheny has won 20 Grammys in ten different categories. And in 2013, He be

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    BIO

    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.

     

    As well as being an accomplished musician, Metheny has also participated in the academic arena as a music educator. At 18, he was the youngest teacher ever at the University of Miami. At 19, he became the youngest teacher ever at the Berklee College of Music, where he also received an honorary doctorate more th

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    • Pat Metheny Group

    American jazz fusion group

    The Pat Metheny Group was an American jazz band founded in 1977 by guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, along with his core collaborating member, keyboardist and composer Lyle Mays. Other long-standing members included bassist and producer Steve Rodby from 1981 to 2010, and drummerPaul Wertico from 1983 to 2001, after which Antonio Sanchez became the percussionist from 2002 to 2010. Vocalist Pedro Aznar was also a long-time member, performing with the group from 1984 to 1993. In addition to a core quartet, the group was often joined by a variety of other instrumentalists expanding the size to six or eight musicians.

    History

    1970s

    Founder Pat Metheny first emerged on the jazz scene in the mid-1970s with a pair of solo albums. First was Bright Size Life, released in 1976, a trio album with bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. The next album, released in 1977, was Watercolors, featuring Eberhard Weber on bass, pianist Lyle Mays, and drummer Danny Gottlieb.

    In 1977, bassist Mark Egan joined Metheny, Mays, and Gottlieb to form the Pat Metheny Group. ECM released the album Pat Metheny Group in 1978 with songs co-written by Metheny and Mays. Pat Metheny Group showcased Mays' use of the Oberheim synthesizer, which became an integral part of the group's sound. In 1979, the group's second album, American Garage, reached No. 1 on the jazz chart in Billboard magazine.

    1980s

    The Pat Metheny Group released the album Offramp in 1982. Offramp marked the first recorded appearance of bassist Steve Rodby in the group (replacing Mark Egan), and also featured Brazilian guest artist Naná Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos had appeared on the Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays album As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls in 1981, and his performance on percussion and wordless vocals marked the first addition of Latin-South American music shadings to the Group's sound. Offramp was also the group's first re

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    • Missouri-born white guitarist Pat Metheny (1954) debuted on Pastorius Metheny Ditmas Bley (1974) with Paul Bley and Jaco Pastorius, and played on Gary Burton's Dreams So Real (1975) and Passengers (1976), albums that popularized the twelve-string electric guitar.

    His debut as a leader, Bright Size Life (december 1975), a trio session featuring Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses (also fresh from Burton's group), introduced more than just an electric instrument (two with Pastorius' bass) to jazz music: the key factor was the domestic and naturalistic mood of the Midwest's white farming culture that permeated every piece (especially Midwestern Nights Dream). The experimental (Sirabhorn) and melodic (Unity Village, an overdubbed duet between two electric guitars) were mere variations on the same theme. The album also relied on the spontaneous equilibrium between Metheny, who was shaping the sound of the electric guitar, and Pastorius, who was revolutionizing the electric bass.

    Watercolors (february 1977) debuted a quartet with pianist Lyle Mays, bassist Eberhard Weber and drummer Danny Gottlieb. As the title implied, Metheny's compositions were shifting towards an impressionistic, chromatic aesthetic. The idyllic Watercolors, the turbulent Icefire, and the ten-minute odyssey Sea Song relied on elegant counterpoint, crystalline tones and youthful exuberance.

    Adopting those elements as dogmas, the following year Metheny formed his fusion Group with Mays, Gottlieb and bassist Mark Egan. Mays was co-responsible for most of the material (notably the edgy ten-minute San Lorenzo, as well as a couple of eight-minute rhapsodies, Phase Dance and April Joy) and the overall atmosphere of Group (january 1978), a symbiosis that was to become the essence of the Group's music.

    If, before Metheny, fusion jazz had to pretend to be "black" in order to qualify for a slot in jazz magazines and record stores, with Metheny any pretense was set aside. M