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Patrick Bruce Metheny (born 12 August 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and leader of the Pat Metheny Group.
Roughly, Metheny's musical contexts separate into many branches: the Pat Metheny Group plus various collaborations, duets, solo works, and other side project s.
1 Pat Metheny Group
Together with keyboardist Lyle Mays, Metheny founded the Pat Metheny Group (PMG) in 1976, after discovering how similar their musical ideas were. The Pat Metheny Group has ever since been one rare example of a jazz formation that has been extremely successful over the years and yet never followed any commercial temptation. They have developed a very dense orchestral way of composing, connecting often with the classical age for counterpoint, metric alternations and musical drama, but also connecting with different kinds of world music, especially South American. Where Metheny is the ultimate melodicist, Mays is the complex harmonist. In 1981 they were joined by bassist Steve Rodby who in the run of time developed as a catalyst in Pat's and Lyle's artistic collaboration and defined much the process of recording. Metheny refers to the PMG as the experimental corner of his music...
1 Side Projects
Pat Metheny in many different contexts:
1.1 Solo Recordings
- New Chautauqua (1978)
- The radically experimental Zero Tolerance for Silence (1992)
- Passagio per il Paradiso (soundtrack) (1996)
- One Quiet Night (2003)
1.2 Duets
1.3 Trio
- With Jaco Pastorius (b) & Bob Moses (dr) on Bright Size Life (1975)
- With Charlie Haden (b) & Billy Higgins (dr) on Rejoicing (1983)
- With Dave HollandDave Holland (born October 1, 1946) is a jazz bassist and composer. He first became widely known in the late 1960s when he worked with Miles Davis during Davis' Bitches Brew era. An unconfirmed story tells of a young Dave Holland working at Ronny Scott's (b) & Roy HaynesRoy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz. He has had a long career and played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing to avant-garde jazz. He began his full time professional career in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 (dr) on Question & Answer (1989)
- With Larry Grenadier (b) & Bill Stewart (dr) on Trio 99 > 00 (2000)
1.4 Symphonic Projects
- Secret Story (1992)
- A Map of the World (1999)
1.5 Collaborations
- 80/81 (1980) with Dewey Redman , Charlie Haden, Michael BreckerMichael Brecker (born 1949) is an American jazz musician. Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1949. As a child he was exposed to the music of jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. Although he has mastered a, Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnette (born 1942) is a drummer and pianist, recognized as one of the foremost jazz musicians since the 1960's. Besides the drums he studied the piano. He first became known as a member of Charles Lloyd's band, a band that Keith Jarrett also was
- Song X (1985) with Ornette ColemanOrnette Coleman (born March 19, 1930) was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, and one of the more notable figures in jazz history. Coleman was raised in Fort Worth, Texas,where he began performing R&B and bebop initially on
- The Sign of Four (1996) with Derek BaileyDerek Bailey (born January 29, 1932) is a free improvising avant garde guitarist. Career summary Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. He played the guitar from an early age, studying with John Duarte among others. He found work as a guitarist in clubs,, Gregg Bendian and Paul Wertico
- And as a key player on many other projects, repeatedly with Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock and Jack DeJohnette.
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