Quartet expands upon the extraordinary musical dialogue - or, as Amazon.com puts it, the "dream pairing" - begun by guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau on their 2006 collaboration, Metheny/Mehldau. This time they incorporate the members of Mehldau's trio, bassist Larry Grenadier ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Right from the first bar of “In On It” it’s clear we’re listening to Pat Metheny, and an album with clear affinities to the Pat Metheny Group. No wonder it’s the opening track and was chosen as the first single from the album. That sound, it’s unmistakable: the soaring guitar lyricism, the sense of joy, the jazz/rock/Brazilian flavours, and nearly always lots going on: especially on this album, which features a trio augmented (hence the plus sign) by fifteen additional musicians. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Legendary American guitarist, composer, improviser and 20-time Grammy winner Pat Metheny announces the release of his latest album MoonDial on 26 July via BMG. With the release of Dream Box in the spring of 2023, I took off on a long solo tour around the world, sitting alone onstage for two and a half hours for the very first time. I had played a few tunes here and there by myself each night ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
„Dream Box is an unusual recording for me; a compilation of solo tracks recorded across a few years that I discovered while listening on tour. During the extensive touring period that made up most of 2022 for me, I found a forgotten folder on my drive. I often make quick recordings of things; a new tune, a new (or old) guitar, a standard tune, or ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Unlike almost any other modern musician, Pat Metheny remains uniquely unpredictable. A new Metheny record could be almost anything as the only musician to have won twelve of his twenty Grammy awards in twelve different categories. His recent recording Road To The Sun caused a sensation in the classical music world for its intricate and emotionally satisfying ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and twenty time GRAMMY-winner Pat Metheny will release Road To The Sun, his debut for BMG Modern Recordings and the latest chapter in an endlessly innovative career that spans nearly five decades. ...
Composer: Arvo Pärt, Pat Metheny
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Metheny alone and, mostly, acoustic, playing folk-flavoured compositions. Pat viewed this as “an autobiographical album. It’s got a lot to do with the American Midwest. It’s very open and spacious.” Pat Metheny is one of those rare artists whose virtuosity is so fluid that it is no longer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
A young group openly acknowledging the influence of popular music. This cheerful, breezy jazz-rock from the Pat Metheny Group was recorded in 1979.. Includes the PMG signature tune “(Cross The) Heartland”. Pat Metheny is one of those rare artists whose virtuosity is so fluid that it is no longer a necessary ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
"Offramp" is the third album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1982. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. It contains the popular ballad "Are You Going with Me?". Offramp is the first studio album on which Metheny used a guitar synthesizer, a Roland GR-300 ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
"First Circle" was Pat Metheny's last recording for ECM, before signing with Geffen Records.With new members Pedro Aznar and Paul Wertico, the group was set for its next phase. Metheny's musical touchstones are all here - South America, spirited rock, and de-tuned sonic parody. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
If you’ve ever desired a Pat Metheny Group greatest hits album, then Travels is for you. Compiled from the group’s touring activities in 1982, this double set is a must-have. From the glittering lotus of melody that is “San Lorenzo” to the even more effusive “Phase Dance,” the requisite classics are all here. We also get a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
(aka “The White Album”) Pat Metheny Group (Remastered)
When the Pat Metheny Group released this debut album on ECM in 1978, the musicianship of Pat was already beginning to turn some heads. His previous trio album for ECM in 1976, featuring Jaco Pastoris (bass) and Bob Moses (drums), had forced the world of traditional jazz to take notice of this contemporary sound. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Remastered)
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls is a collaborative album by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, released in 1981. The title makes reference to Wichita, Kansas and Wichita Falls, Texas. The title tune is just under 21 minutes. It is one of the few albums where Metheny not only acts as both the lead and accompanying guitarist but also the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
“Guitar wonder Metheny has made an astoundingly tasteful and free flowing record here” the Massachusetts Valley Advocate declared. “Metheny’s compositions are perfect vehicles for his guitar, which blends smoothly with the breathtaking ensemble work.” The recording is the first of Pat’s albums to feature Lyle Mays ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
"Rejoicing" is an album by the guitarist Pat Metheny that was released in 1984 by ECM. It features the guitarist in a trio with Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, both of whom played and recorded with Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to his own compositions, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Larger ensembles may have provided Pat Metheny with his most visible successes, but he's repeatedly fired up his most fluid and personal playing in leaner trio settings, starting with this, his 1976 debut as a leader. Bob Moses brings both delicacy and effortless dynamics to his drumming, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Digitally remastered! With 80/81, Pat Metheny took one step closer to his dream of working with The Prophet of Freedom (a dream he finally achieved with 1985’s Song X), and what better company than Coleman alumni Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman, both fresh off the boat of Keith Jarrett’s newly defunct American Quartet and both ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
If you’ve ever desired a Pat Metheny Group greatest hits album, then Travels is for you. Compiled from the group’s touring activities in 1982, this double set is a must-have. From the glittering lotus of melody that is “San Lorenzo” to the even more effusive “Phase Dance,” the requisite classics are all here. We also get a curtailed, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Pat Metheny’s From This Place features ten compositions by Metheny, who is joined by his long-time drummer, Antonio Sanchez, Malaysian / Australian bassist Linda May Han Oh, and British pianist Gwilym Simcock as well as the Hollywood Studio Symphony conducted by Joel McNeely. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
A trio of Grammy Award-winning albums by the Pat Metheny Group return to the artists's active discography on Nonesuch. Still Life (Talking (1987), Letter from Home (1989), and The Road To You (1993) are the first in a series of remastered reissues of Geffen Records titles....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
