Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny ( born August 12, 1954 in Lee 's Summit, Missouri; than Patrick Bruce Metheny ) is an American jazz guitarist. As a guest musician, solo artist and director of various formations own, he established himself in the mid- 1970s as one of the most influential and successful jazz musicians in the world. Inform the style was next to his own game on different acoustic and electric stringed instruments also his work with the "Pat Metheny Group ", which he managed an independent ensemble sound.

Life and work

Metheny began to play the trumpet at age eight. It was only twelve, he moved under the influence of Wes Montgomery for Guitar. At 14, he won a sponsored jazz magazine Down Beat guitarist competition and was then able to participate in a seminar with teachers like Marian McPartland. At the age of 15 years he played with the jazz greats of Kansas City. At 18, he was a lecturer in guitar at the University of Miami, a year later at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Throughout his career, Metheny played with the jazz musicians Gary Burton, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Eberhard Weber, and many others, but also with musicians from the pop area as Joni Mitchell, Bruce Hornsby and David Bowie ( This is not America from the film the Falcon and the Snowman). A special affinity Metheny, as he is represented to Brazilian musicians on recordings by Celia Vaz, Leila Pinheiro, Tulio Mourao, Toninho Horta, Ricardo Silveira and Milton Nascimento. In addition, he has significantly influenced and promoted the career of some jazz musicians. So he worked among others with Silje Nergaard, Noah and Anna Maria Jopek together.

For his services as a guitarist, composer and producer Pat Metheny has won many awards. Among others, he received 20 Grammy awards - most recently in 2013 for his 2012 released album Unity Band. " Almost no other guitarist could over the decades to put as many pulses as Pat Metheny, whose style was initially for sound stressed merger, could be but lightly work your way into the areas of bebop, Harmolodic, free jazz, hardcore and even ambient. " He is the brother of working as a music journalist Mike Metheny flugelhorn player. He is married to the photographer and gallery owner Latifa Metheny ( Tria Gallery, New York City ), they have two sons, Jeff Kaiis and Nicolas Djakeem, as well as a daughter named Maya Willow.

The Pat Metheny Group

Since 1976 there is the Pat Metheny Group, founded Metheny with Lyle Mays (keyboards). For the original cast included the bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb. Since 1981, Steve Rodby bassist and co-producer alongside Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny permanent member of the band, again and again began several guest musicians on tour.

Pat Metheny's compositions and improvisations are extremely melodious. However, it is difficult to categorize them. His recordings and projects have a wide variety of styles, from film scores and the dense and far durcharrangierten shots of the Pat Metheny Group, through classic trio jazz standard recordings to highly experimental and free jazz recordings (eg on the 1985 album song X with Ornette Coleman and especially in 2002 on the album Sign of 4 with Derek Bailey ).

Pat Metheny playing on his recordings and concerts in a series of sometimes unusual guitars, for example, his 42 -string guitar Pikasso. In addition, he has been using the album Offramp of the Pat Metheny Group from 1981 often also a guitar synthesizer. In his honor, brought the guitar manufacturer Ibanez out the Signature Guitar Model PM.

Occupation of the Pat Metheny Group since 2005

In January 2005, the new album by the Pat Metheny Group The Way Up, a suite of Metheny and Lyle Mays, in which the new line is to listen first published:

Guests can be heard on the album Richard Bona ( Percussion instruments, vocals), who no longer goes on tour, and Dave Samuels (percussion).

Disco Graphical Notes

• Bright Size Life (Pat Metheny, 1976)
• Watercolors (Pat Metheny, 1977)
• Pat Metheny Group (Pat Metheny Group, 1978)
• New Chautauqua (Pat Metheny, 1978)
• American Garage (Pat Metheny Group, 1979)
• 80/81 (Pat Metheny, 1980)
• As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls (Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, 1980)
• Offramp (Pat Metheny Group, 1981)
• Travels (Pat Metheny Group, 1983 ECM Records GmbH )
• First Circle (Pat Metheny Group, 1984)
• Rejoicing (1985 )
• The Falcon and the Snowman, 1985 ( soundtrack to the film The Falcon and the Snowman)
• Song X (Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman, 1985, 2006 with bonus tracks )
• Still Life ( talking ) (Pat Metheny Group in March / April 1987 at Power Station, NYC )
• Letter from Home (Pat Metheny Group, 1989)
• Question and Answer (Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland, 1990)
• Secret Story Live (Pat Metheny, 1992)
• The Road to You Live (Pat Metheny Group, 1993)
• Zero Tolerance for Silence (Pat Metheny, 1992)
• I Can See Your House From here ( John Scofield & Pat Metheny, 1994)
• We Live Here ( Pat Metheny Group, 1995)
• Passagio Per Il Paradiso ( OST) (Pat Metheny, 1996)
• Quartet (Pat Metheny Group, 1996)
• Beyond the Missouri Sky ( Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, 1997)
• Imaginary Day (Pat Metheny Group, 1997)
• A Map of the World, 1999 ( soundtrack to the film A Map of the World)
• Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999)
• Trio 99-00 (Pat Metheny, 2000)
• Trio Live (2000)
• Speaking of Now (Pat Metheny Group, 2002)
• One Quiet Night (Pat Metheny, 2003)
• The Way Up (Pat Metheny Group, 2005)
• Metheny Mehldau (Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, 2006)
• Metheny Mehldau Quartet ( 2007)
• Secret Story (Deluxe Edition with 5 Bonus Tracks ) (Pat Metheny, 2007)
• Pilgrimage (Michael Brecker, 2007)
• Day Trip (Pat Metheny Trio, Feb. 2008)
• Upojenie (Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek, 2008)
• Blue Asphalt (Pat Metheny Group, August 2008) ( live recording from 1977 )
• Quartet Live! (Steve Swallow, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Antonio Sanchez, 2009)
• Orchestrion (Pat Metheny, 2010)
• What's It All About ( solo, Nonesuch, 2011)
• Unity Band (Pat Metheny with Chris Potter, Ben Williams, Antonio Sanchez - Nonesuch, 2012)
• The Orchestrion Project (Pat Metheny, 2013)
• Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol 20 (Pat Metheny, 2013)
• Children (< ->) (Pat Metheny Unity Group, 2014)