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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
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Pat Metheny is one of the leading voices in the field of contemporary jazz, and had also made a great success in the fusion genre, written music for film scores and collaborated with most of the great jazz musicians of our time. He is regarded as creme a'la creme amongst musicians, and has a distinguished sound and an unique composition style. He has been awarded 17 Grammys in different genres during the years (10 for PMG) , and is still touring between 120-240 day's a year.
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Pat Metheny is one of the leading voices in the field of contemporary [[jazz]], and also had a great success in the fusion genre. He has written music for film scores and collaborated with most of the great jazz musicians of our time. He is regarded as the crème de la crème amongst musicians, and has a distinguished sound and an unique composition style. He has been awarded 17 Grammys in different genres during the years (10 for PMG) , and is still touring between 120-240 days a year.
== Early Career ==
== Early Career ==
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Pat Metheny (Patrick Bruce Metheny) was born on August 12, 1954, Lee's Summit, Missouri, U.S.A. (a suburb to Kansas City) He has an elder brother that play's the trumpet, which also Pat did from age 8. He switched to guitar at age 12, and progressed very fast. He states [[Wes Montgomery]] as one of his early influences, but horn-players like [[Ornette Coleman]], [[Joe Henderson]], [[John Coltrane]] and [[Charlie Parker]] was also a source of inspiration. At the age 15 he was already jamming with the top-notch players in Kansas City. Vibraphone-player [[Gary Burton]] saw the potential in the talented teenager, and Pat later joined Gary Burton's band.
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Pat Metheny (Patrick Bruce Metheny) was born on August 12, 1954, Lee's Summit, Missouri, U.S.A. (a suburb of Kansas City) He has an elder brother that plays the trumpet, which Pat also played from age 8. He switched to guitar at age 12, and progressed very fast. He states [[Wes Montgomery]] as one of his early influences, but horn-players like [[Ornette Coleman]], [[Joe Henderson]], [[John Coltrane]] and [[Charlie Parker]] were also a source of inspiration. At the age 15 he was already jamming with top-notch players in Kansas City. Vibraphone-player [[Gary Burton]] saw the potential in the talented teenager, and Pat later joined Gary Burton's band.
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After graduating from Lee's Summit High School, Pat moved to Florida in order to attend University of Miami. He studied just one semester before he was offered a position as a teacher, which he also took. He was teaching a short period before he was offered a teaching position at [[Berkeley College of Music]]. In Miami he also met [[Jaco Pastorius]], whom he played with and became a close friend to until Jaco's death.
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After graduating from Lee's Summit High School, Pat moved to Florida in order to attend University of Miami. He studied just one semester before he was offered a position as a teacher, which he also took. He was teaching a short period before he was offered a teaching position at [[Berkeley College of Music]]. In Miami he also met [[Jaco Pastorius]], whom he played with and became a close friend until Jaco's death.
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In 1974 he joined Gary Burton's band and stayed with him for three years. He replaced Mike Goodrich in the band, and he is present on the record "'''Ring'''". At the same time Pat jammed with Jaco and Gary Burton's drummer [[Bob Moses]], and together with [[Paul Bley]] they made Jaco's debut-album just entitled "Jaco". The year after, a new label ECM, offered him to make a solo recording. This led to the milestone "'''Bright Size Life'''", which featured Jaco and Bob Moses, that is considered one of the finest jazz albums made in the 70's.
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In 1974 he joined Gary Burton's band and stayed with him for three years. He replaced Mike Goodrich in the band, and he is present on the record "'''Ring'''". At the same time Pat jammed with Jaco and Gary Burton's drummer [[Bob Moses]], and together with [[Paul Bley]] they made Jaco's debut-album just entitled "Jaco". The year after, a new label ECM, offered him to make a solo recording. This led to the milestone "'''Bright Size Life'''", which featured Jaco and Bob Moses, that is considered one of the finest [[jazz]] albums made in the 70's.
At the same time Pat also met [[Lyle Mays]] which he later co-formed Pat Metheny Group with and is his alter-ego in terms of the piano. The next album Pat recorded for ECM (who is best known for their "spacy" recordings) was "'''Watercolours'''" with Lyle May's and this album can be seen as the embryo to [[Pat Metheny Group]]. On the album Pat play's a lot of acoustic guitar to create an open an interesting sound.
At the same time Pat also met [[Lyle Mays]] which he later co-formed Pat Metheny Group with and is his alter-ego in terms of the piano. The next album Pat recorded for ECM (who is best known for their "spacy" recordings) was "'''Watercolours'''" with Lyle May's and this album can be seen as the embryo to [[Pat Metheny Group]]. On the album Pat play's a lot of acoustic guitar to create an open an interesting sound.
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In 1978 Pat formed the first version of Pat Metheny Group with Lyle May's, Jaco's bass-protege' Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb. The debut-album just entitled "'''Pat Metheny Group'''" marks a beginning of a new style in the fusion genre, and is more "easy-listening" than "'''Bright Size Life'''", which is more for jazz connosieurs. The beats are more latin-like and both pop and folk influences can be heard along with a strong melodic approach. The most famous song from this album is probably "Phase Dance", which every jazz/fusion player at that time covered.
In 1978 Pat formed the first version of Pat Metheny Group with Lyle May's, Jaco's bass-protege' Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb. The debut-album just entitled "'''Pat Metheny Group'''" marks a beginning of a new style in the fusion genre, and is more "easy-listening" than "'''Bright Size Life'''", which is more for jazz connosieurs. The beats are more latin-like and both pop and folk influences can be heard along with a strong melodic approach. The most famous song from this album is probably "Phase Dance", which every jazz/fusion player at that time covered.
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The sound of the first version of Pat Metheny Group is marked by Pat's use of two Eventide delay's and reverb to get an open sound as well as Lyle May's use of Oberheim & Prophet 5 synthesizer's in addition to the piano. Later on both of them started to use the [[Synclavier]] - a top-notch synthesizer at that time. Pat used it in conjunction with the first [[Roland]] guitar synths, which he still uses.
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The sound of the first version of Pat Metheny Group is marked by Pat's use of two Eventide delays and reverb to get an open sound as well as Lyle May's use of Oberheim & Prophet 5 synthesizers in addition to the piano. Later on both of them started to use the [[Synclavier]] - a top-notch synthesizer at that time. Pat used it in conjunction with the first [[Roland]] guitar synths, which he still uses.
The follow up to the first album was the success "'''American Garage'''" from 1980, reaching #1 on the Billboard Jazz chart and even attended the Pop charts. The first song from the album "'''Cross the Heartland'''" has an almost pop-like atmosphere, which a lot of people seemed to like, not just jazz/fusion-musicians. The band then started to tour all over the world on a very tight schedule for the next couple of years.
The follow up to the first album was the success "'''American Garage'''" from 1980, reaching #1 on the Billboard Jazz chart and even attended the Pop charts. The first song from the album "'''Cross the Heartland'''" has an almost pop-like atmosphere, which a lot of people seemed to like, not just jazz/fusion-musicians. The band then started to tour all over the world on a very tight schedule for the next couple of years.
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=== Introducing latin music ===
=== Introducing latin music ===
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[[Image:Meth2.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Pat Metheny Group]]
The band released "'''Offramp'''" in 1982 with the introduction of a new line-up, except for Lyle Mays. [[Steve Rodby]] was playing the bass and [[Paul Wertico]] the drums. Along with the group was also [[Nana Vasconcelos]], who played percussion and sang wordless vocals. The groups sound moved towards latin music which intensified even further when the album "'''First Circle'''" from 1984 was released. A double live-album was also released in 1983, containing all Pat's "hits" up til then, and showed Pat using Roland's guitar synth extensively as well as an awesome production.
The band released "'''Offramp'''" in 1982 with the introduction of a new line-up, except for Lyle Mays. [[Steve Rodby]] was playing the bass and [[Paul Wertico]] the drums. Along with the group was also [[Nana Vasconcelos]], who played percussion and sang wordless vocals. The groups sound moved towards latin music which intensified even further when the album "'''First Circle'''" from 1984 was released. A double live-album was also released in 1983, containing all Pat's "hits" up til then, and showed Pat using Roland's guitar synth extensively as well as an awesome production.
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== Symphonics, duos and noice ==
== Symphonics, duos and noice ==
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In 1992 Pat wrote "'''Secret Story'''", a symphic work that incoorperated Pinpeat Orchestra of the Royal Ballet, the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] and its conductor [[Jeremy Lubbock]], the Choir of the Cambodian Royal Palace, Lyle Mays. all orchestrations were made by Jeremy Lubbock, and Pat even took the setup on a small tour which produced a live-dvd released in 2001.
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In 1992 Pat wrote "'''Secret Story'''", a symphonic work that incoorperated Pinpeat Orchestra of the Royal Ballet, the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] and its conductor [[Jeremy Lubbock]], the Choir of the Cambodian Royal Palace, Lyle Mays. all orchestrations were made by Jeremy Lubbock, and Pat even took the setup on a small tour which produced a live-dvd released in 2001.
With fellow-guitarist [[John Scofield]], he recorded "'''I can see Your house from there'''" (1993) as a duo recording accompanied by [[Steve Swallow]] and [[Bill Stewart]]. The recording spots originals written by both Pat and John Scofield and is regarded as legandary amongst guitar players.
With fellow-guitarist [[John Scofield]], he recorded "'''I can see Your house from there'''" (1993) as a duo recording accompanied by [[Steve Swallow]] and [[Bill Stewart]]. The recording spots originals written by both Pat and John Scofield and is regarded as legandary amongst guitar players.
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He also made a solo-album entitled "'''Zero Tolerance for Silence'''" in 1994, which saw Pat playing distorted guitar, overdubbing guitars, playing blues and experimenting with sounds. The record was highly controversial and totally written down by the critics and Pat's fans wanted him to draw the release back, which he refused to.
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He also made a solo-album entitled "'''Zero Tolerance for Silence'''" in 1994, which saw Pat playing distorted guitar, overdubbing guitars, playing [[blues]] and experimenting with sounds. The record was highly controversial and totally written down by the critics and Pat's fans wanted him to draw the release back, which he refused to.
In these years (without Pat Metheny Group) Pat seemed to focus on finding a new approach as well as playing with other great jazz musicians, a live album was made with [[Jack De Johnette]], [[Dave Holland]], and [[Herbie Hancock]], and a trio album with [[Dave Holland]] and [[Roy Haynes]] was also released. But obviously his work with London Symphony Orchestra took the most of his time.
In these years (without Pat Metheny Group) Pat seemed to focus on finding a new approach as well as playing with other great jazz musicians, a live album was made with [[Jack De Johnette]], [[Dave Holland]], and [[Herbie Hancock]], and a trio album with [[Dave Holland]] and [[Roy Haynes]] was also released. But obviously his work with London Symphony Orchestra took the most of his time.
== PMG finds new directions & playing with the greats ==
== PMG finds new directions & playing with the greats ==
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[[Image:MethBurton.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Pat Metheny with Gary Burton]]
===Other influences===
===Other influences===
In 1995 Pat Metheny Group released the first studio album in 6 years, although a live album with some older studio cuts were released two years earlier. "'''We Live Here'''" marks a change in the bands direction, featuring hip-hop influences, free form improvisations and blues theme's. In a commercial context, this approach was not succesful, and the bands forthcoming records "'''Quartet'''" (1996), and "'''Imaginary Day'''" (1997) also followed this tradition. In 1997 Pat took another break from the band that doesn't re-emerged until 2002.
In 1995 Pat Metheny Group released the first studio album in 6 years, although a live album with some older studio cuts were released two years earlier. "'''We Live Here'''" marks a change in the bands direction, featuring hip-hop influences, free form improvisations and blues theme's. In a commercial context, this approach was not succesful, and the bands forthcoming records "'''Quartet'''" (1996), and "'''Imaginary Day'''" (1997) also followed this tradition. In 1997 Pat took another break from the band that doesn't re-emerged until 2002.
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==== The return of Pat Metheny Group ====
==== The return of Pat Metheny Group ====
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In 2002 Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays formed a new line-up of Pat Metheny Group that incoorperated several younger musicians, that actually were brought up with their music. Drummer [[Antonio Sanchez]] (also in Pat's trio) from Mexico were added, and so was bass virtouso/multi-instrumentalist [[Richard Bona]] from Cameroon. (also with [[Mike Stern]], ed. note) Steve Rodby was still along from the old band, and other newcomers on the release was trumpet player [[Cuong Vu]] and [[David Samuels]] on percussion/Marimba. The music heads back to the sound a little more than on the previous three releases, and have a more "classic" PMG sound, even that the introduction of Cuong Vu's trumpet adds sparkle and light to Pat's music.
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In 2002 Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays formed a new line-up of Pat Metheny Group that incorporated several younger musicians, that actually had grown up with their music. Drummer [[Antonio Sanchez]] (also in Pat's trio) from Mexico were added, and so was bass virtouso/multi-instrumentalist [[Richard Bona]] from Cameroon. (also with [[Mike Stern]], ed. note) Steve Rodby was still along from the old band, and other newcomers on the release was trumpet player [[Cuong Vu]] and [[David Samuels]] on percussion/Marimba. The music heads back to the sound a little more than on the previous three releases, and have a more "classic" PMG sound, even that the introduction of Cuong Vu's trumpet adds sparkle and light to Pat's music.
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The big change in the band's music came however in 2005, when they released the album "'''The Way Up'''". added to the sound was Swiss harmonica player [[Gregoire Maret]]. Pat collaborated with minimalistic composer [[Steve Reich]], back in 1987 on the album "'''Electric Counterpoint'''". This approach may have inspired Pat and Lyle Mays for the album, that are just one song spanning 63 minutes. Though the music have several "cues" and themes are there plenty of room for improvisation and a lot of counterpoint themes can be found.
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On the world tour in 2005, PMG got standing ovations on almost every of the 90(!) concerts.
=== Other projects ===
=== Other projects ===
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In 2003 Pat recorded a solo album entitled "'''One Quiet Night'''", which like "'''New Chataquoa'''" featured just himself playing all guitars & bass. On the release he plays both 12-string and the [[Baritone guitar]]. On the album was Norah Jones "'''Don't Know Why'''" (Jesse Harris), as well as '''Ferry cross the Mersey''' and "'''My Song'''" by [[Keith Jarret]]. The album won a [[Grammy]] in 2004, for Pat's subtile rendering and was critic and public success.
In 2003 Pat recorded a solo album entitled "'''One Quiet Night'''", which like "'''New Chataquoa'''" featured just himself playing all guitars & bass. On the release he plays both 12-string and the [[Baritone guitar]]. On the album was Norah Jones "'''Don't Know Why'''" (Jesse Harris), as well as '''Ferry cross the Mersey''' and "'''My Song'''" by [[Keith Jarret]]. The album won a [[Grammy]] in 2004, for Pat's subtile rendering and was critic and public success.
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The big change in the bands music came however in 2005, when they released the album "'''The Way Up'''". Pat collaborated with minimalistic composer [[Steve Reich]], back in 1987 on the album "'''Electric Counterpoint'''". This approach may have inspired Pat and Lyle Mays for the album, that are just one song spanning 63 minutes. Though the music have several "cues" and themes are there plenty of room for improvisation and a lot of counterpoint themes can be found.
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Besides this he was also present on solo recordings by [[Michael Brecker]], [[Charlie Haden]], [[Cassandra Wilson]] amongst others.
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On the world tour in 2005, PMG got standing ovations on almost every of the 90(!) concerts.
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== Up til now.... ==
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== Third Headline ==
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Since 2005 Pat has been recording with artist such as his friend [[Michael Brecker]] (on his last record "Pilgrimage"), started to collaborate with piano virtouso [[Brad Mehldau]], recorded his trio, playing spanish music with singer Enrique Morente and written theatre-music for an off-Broadway show. He has also been touring extensively with different line-ups and held several lessons/lectures at the Universitys throughout the World. Pat doesn't seems to slow down, and the voice of this truly unique musician will continue to linger on! At this moment when this is written, Pat are planning a tour with Gary Burton, which soon shall begin!
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== The trio tradition ==
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Pat had since the release of "Bright Size Life" always performed/recorded with different trio setup's, a band configuration which he seems to like a lot. Since he during the years has done a lot of teaching, the trio format has also been convenient in these situations. In 1983 he recorded "'''Rejoicing'''", which included legendary musicians [[Billy Higgins]] (drums) and [[Charlie Haden]] (double bass). Pat has on almost all trio recording's played a lot of "standards", which have kept him as a favourite player amongst the jazz connossieurs audience. His trios had featured different line-ups throughout the years, but has always been considered amongst the finest in the world of jazz guitar. "Qustion and Answer" from featured [[Dave Holland]] and [[Roy Haynes]], while his trio from around 2000 was containing [[Bill Stewart]] and [[Larry Grenadier]]. His current trio consists of Antonio Sanchez and Christian McBride.
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== The trio tradition ==
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== Style ==
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Pat had since the release of "Bright Size Life" always performed/recorded with different trio setup's, a band configuration which he seems to like a lot. Since he during the years has done a lot of teaching, the trio format has also been convenient in these situations. In 1983 he recorded "'''Rejoicing'''", which included legendary musicians Billy Higgins (drums) and Charlie Haden (double bass). Pat has on almost all trio recording's played a lot of "standards", which have kept him as a favourite player amongst the jazz connossieurs audience.
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Pat Metheny has a very fluid style of playing guitar, and he uses both [[legato]] and picking techniques. He favors to sometimes end the phrases with an upward glissando. He is a truly modern player, who uses a lot of chromatism and alternative [[pentatonic]]s as well as post be-bop phrasing. His style is influented of horn players rather than guitar players. He developed a phrase which is known as "the Pat Metheny lick", which is actually a broken [[chord]], starting on the mid-tone and transposed up & down the neck. He has also an unique rhytmic approach in both playing acoustics & electrics, and his voice is immidiately recognizeable.
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== Related GMC Lessons ==
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== Gear ==
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[[Image:Pikkasso.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Pat Metheny with the "Pikasso" guitar]]
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'''Guitars:'''<br>
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Gibson ES-175<br>
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Ibanez PM1000<br>
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This is Pat Metheny's signature guitar model, made by Ibanez. He owns a couple of them (modified to his special needs)
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Linda Manzer Guitars (acoustic, 12-string and Baritone)
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Roland GR-300
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[http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/blues-get-that-shuffle2/ Blue Shuffle 2]
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Other Guitars:<br>
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-Guild dreadnaught cutaway (permanently in Nashville tuning)<br>
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-Ovation nylon guitar<br>
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-Sadowsky solid body nylon stringed guitar<br>
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-Coral electric sitar<br>
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[http://www.guitarmasterclass.netrhythm-guitar/blues-get-that-shuffle2/ Blue Shuffle 2 again]
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Guitar amps:<br>
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Acoustic 134 (until 1994)<br>
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Digitech 2101 GSP Guitar Pre amp<br>
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Ashly Mosfet 200 power amp routed to JBL speakers<br>
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Crest 6001 stereo power amp<br>
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== Discography ==
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Guitar Effects:<br>
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Lexicon Prime Time Digital Delay<br>
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The output of the Digitech, just like the Acoustic 134, is connected to 2 Lexicon digital delays, one on his left at 14 Ms and one on his right at 26 Ms.
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Pat uses 0.11 flatwound strings and a large pick (holded with three fingers), using the back of the pick.
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He also developed the "Pikasso" -guitar with Linda Manzer, which is a harp-guitar containing two F-holes and four necks. It can be heard on the album "'''Quartets'''".
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== Videos/Sound ==
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== Discography ==
'''Solo:''' <br>
'''Solo:''' <br>
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One Quiet Night<br>
One Quiet Night<br>
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Duos:<br>
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'''Duos:''' <br>
Beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories) | Verve, 1997
Beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories) | Verve, 1997
(w. Charlie Haden: bass)<br>
(w. Charlie Haden: bass)<br>
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'''Quintets:'''
'''Quintets:'''
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80/81 (1980)<br>
80/81 (1980)<br>
(Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone, Dewey Redman: tenor saxophone; Charlie Haden: bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums)<br>
(Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone, Dewey Redman: tenor saxophone; Charlie Haden: bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums)<br>
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(Gary Burton: vibes, Pat Metheny: guitar, Chick Corea: piano, Dave Holland: bass, Roy Haynes: drums)<br>
(Gary Burton: vibes, Pat Metheny: guitar, Chick Corea: piano, Dave Holland: bass, Roy Haynes: drums)<br>
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'''Pat Metheny Group:'''<br>
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'''Pat Metheny Group:''' <br>
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Pat Metheny Group | ECM, 1978
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Pat Metheny Group (1978)<br>
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Studio recording, Oslo, Norway, January, 1978
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American Garage (1979)<br>
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Tracks: San Lorenzo; Phase Dance; Jaco; April Wind; April Joy; Lone Jack.
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Offramp (1982)<br>
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Mark Egan: bass; Dan Gottlieb: drums.
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Travels (1983)<br>
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First Circle (1984)<br>
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Still Life (talkin) (1987)<br>
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Letter From Home (1990)<br>
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The Road to You (1993)<br>
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We Live Here (1995)<br>
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Quartet (1996)<br>
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Imaginary Day (1997)<br>
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Imaginary Day Live (2001) [DVD]<br>
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Speaking Of Now (2002)<br>
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The Way Up (2005)<br>
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American Garage | ECM, 1979
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'''As A Side Musician:'''<br>
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Studio recording, Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA, June, 1979
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Gary Burton: Ring (1974)<br>
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Tracks: (Cross The) Heartland; Airstream; The Search; American Garage; The Epic.
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Gary Burton: Dreams So Real (1976)<br>
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: piano, synthesizer, autoharp, organ; Mark Egan: bass; Dan Gottlieb: drums.
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Gary Burton: Passengers (1977)<br>
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Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light (1980)<br>
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Ross-Levine Band: That Summer Something (1981)<br>
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Célia Vaz: Mutação (1981)<br>
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Toninho Horta: Toninho Horta (1981)<br>
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Pedro Aznar: Contemplación (1984)<br>
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Mike Metheny: Day In - Night Out (1986)<br>
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Michael Brecker: Michael Brecker (1987)<br>
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Ricardo Silveira: Long Distance (1988)<br>
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Toninho Horta: Moonstone (1989)<br>
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Túlio Mourão: Teia De Renda (1989)<br>
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Leila Pinheiro: Olho Nu (1989)<br>
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Akiko Yano: Welcome Back (1989)<br>
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Jack DeJohnette: Parallel Realities (1990)<br>
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Silje Nergaard: Tell Me Where You're Going (1990)<br>
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Gary Burton: Reunion (1990)<br>
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Milton Nascimento: Encontros e Despedidas (1991)<br>
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Akiko Yano: Love Life (1991)<br>
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Gary Thomas: Till We Have Faces (1992)<br>
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Bruce Hornsby: Harbor Lights (1993)<br>
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Paul Wertico: The Yin and the Yout (1993)<br>
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Joshua Redman: Wish (1993)<br>
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Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints (1994)<br>
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Milton Nascimento: Angelus (1994)<br>
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Roy Haynes: Te Vou! (1994)<br>
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Bruce Hornsby: Hot House (1995)<br>
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Abbey Lincoln: A Turtle's Dream (1995)<br>
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Kenny Garrett: Pursuance - The Music of John Coltrane (1996)<br>
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Michael Brecker: Tales From The Hudson (1996)<br>
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Tony Williams: Wilderness (1996)<br>
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Akiko Yano: Oui Oui (1997)<br>
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Jim Hall: By Arrangement (1998)<br>
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Marc Johnson: The Sound of Summer Running (1998)<br>
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David Liebman: The Elements: Water - Giver of Life (1998)<br>
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Mark Ledford: Miles 2 Go (1998)<br>
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Philip Bailey: Dreams (1999)<br>
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Cassandra Wilson: Traveling Miles (1999)<br>
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Kenny Garrett: Simply Said (1999)<br>
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Michael Brecker: Time is of the Essence (1999)<br>
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Charlie Haden: Nocturne (2001)<br>
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Offramp | ECM, 1982
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'''Soundtracks:'''<br>
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Studio recording, New York, October, 1981
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Under Fire (1983)<br>
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Tracks: Barcarole; Are You Going With Me?; Au Lait; Eighteen; Offramp; James; The Bat.
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)<br>
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Dan Gottlieb: drums; Nana Vasconcelos: percussion, voice, berimbau.
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Toys (1992)<br>
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Passagio Per il Paradiso (1996)<br>
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A Map of the World (1999)<br>
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Travels | ECM, 1983
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'''Bootlegs:'''<br>
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Live recording, from concerts in Dallas, TX; Philadelphia, PA; Hartford, CT; Sacramento, CA; Nacogdoches, TX.
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Pat Metheny Group: A New Phase Of The Guitar (2000) <br>
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Tracks: Are You Going With Me?; The Fields, The Sky; Goodbye; Phase Dance; Straight On Red; Farmer's Trust; Extradition; Goin' Ahead; Travels; Song for Bilbao; San Lorenzo.
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Pat Metheny Group: Blue Asphalt / Blue Light (1991)<br>
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Dan Gottlieb: drums; Nana Vasconcelos: percussion, voice, berimbau.
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Pat Metheny Group: Clouds (1991)<br>
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Pat Metheny Group: Unity Village (1979)<br>
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Pat Metheny Group: Salt Lake (1982)<br>
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Pat Metheny Group: Jaco (1982)<br>
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Pat Metheny Group: The Windup (1984)<br>
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Jack DeJohnette's Parallel Realities: (1990)<br>
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Pat Metheny Group: Ice Dreams (1993)<br>
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Pat Metheny Group: In Concert (1993)<br>
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Pat Metheny: This World (1994)<br>
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John Scofield & Pat Metheny: You Speak My Language<br>
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Pat Metheny: Autumn Leaves (1995)<br>
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Pat Metheny Trio: Umbria Jazz Festival<br>
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First Circle | Geffen, 1984
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'''Miscellaneous:'''<br>
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Studio recording, New York, February 15-19, 1984
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Steve Reich: Different Trains | Electric Counterpoint | Elektra/Nonesuch, (1989<br>
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Tracks: Forward March; Yolanda, You Learn; The First Circle; If I Could; Tell It All; End Of The Game; Mas Alla; Praise.
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Electric Counterpoint (tracks #4-6) performed by Pat Metheny<br>
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars, synclyvier; Lyle Mays: keyboards, trumpet; Steve Rodby: bass, bass drum; Paul Wertico: drums, field drum, cymbal; Pedro Aznar: percussion, voice, guitar, Glockenspiel.
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Pat Metheny: Works (1991) Compilation<br>
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Pat Metheny: Works II (1991) Compilation<br>
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Still Life (talking) | Geffen, 1987
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A Special Conversation with Pat Metheny (1992)<br>
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Studio recording, New York March/April, 1987
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Pat Metheny: Secret Story (1993)<br>
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Tracks: Minuano (Six Eight); So May It Secretly Begin; Last Train Home; (It's Just) Talk; Third Wind; Distance; In Her Distance.
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Various Artists: Kool Jazz at Midem (1994)<br>
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Paul Wertico: drums; Armando Marçal: percussion, voice; David Blamires: voice; Mark Ledford: voice.
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Letter From Home | Geffen, 1990
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Studio recording, New York, Spring, 1989
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Tracks: Have You Heard; Every Summer Night; Better Days Ahead; Spring Ain't Here; 45/8; 5-5-7; Beat 70; Dream Of The Return; Are We There Yet; Vidala; Slip Away; Letter From Home.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Paul Wertico: drums; Armando Marçal: percussion, voice; Pedro Aznar: voice, guitar, marimba, vibes, tenor sax, charango, melodica, percussion.
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The Road to You | Geffen, 1993
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Live recording, Bari, Pescara, Jesi and Naples, Italy and in Marseilles, Paris and Besançon, France
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Tracks: Have You Heard; The First Circle; The Road to You; Half-Life of Absolution; Last Train Home; Better Days Ahead; Naked Moon; Beat 70; Letter From Home; Third Wind; Solo from “More Travels”.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Paul Wertico: drums; Armando Marçal: percussion, voice; Pedro Aznar: voice, guitar, marimba, vibes, tenor sax, charango, melodica, percussion.
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We Live Here | Geffen, 1995
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Studio recording, New York, 1994
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Tracks: Here To Stay; And Then I Knew; The Girls Next Door; To The End Of The World; We Live Here; Episode d'Azur; Something To Remind You; Red Sky; Stranger In Town.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar, guitar synth; Lyle Mays: piano, keyboards; Steve Rodby: acoustic & electric basses; Paul Wertico: drums; David Blamires: vocals; Marc Ledford: vocals, trumpet; Luis Conte: percussion.
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Quartet | Geffen, 1996
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Studio recording, New York, May, 1996
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Tracks: Introduction; When We Were Free; Montevideo; Take Me There; Seven Days; Oceania; Dismantling Utopia; Double Blind; Second Thought; Mojave; Badland; Glacier; Language of Time; Sometimes I See; As I Am.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: acoustic and electric guitars, 12-string guitar, 42-string pikasso guitar, e-bows and slide, soprano guitars, fretless guitar, guitar synthesizer; Lyle Mays: piano, non-tuned spinet piano, celeste, pedal harmonium, autoharps, electric piano, clavinet; Steve Rodby: acoustic bass, piccolo bass; Paul Wertico: drums & percussion.
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Imaginary Day | Warner Bros., 1997
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Studio recording, New York, Spring, 1997
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Tracks: Imaginary Day; Follow Me; Into the Dream; A Story Within the Story; The Heat of the Day; Across the Sky; The Roots of Coincidence; Too Soon Tomorrow; The Awakening.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Paul Wertico: drums; Mark Ledford: voice, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass trumpet; David Blamires: voice, mellophone, guitars, violin, recorder, trumpet; Mino Cinelu: percussion; David Samuels: percussion; Glen Velez: percussion; Don Alias: percussion.
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Imaginary Day Live | Metheny Group Productions, 2001 [DVD]
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Live recording, Mountain Winery, Saratoga, California, USA, July 21-23, 1998
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Tracks: Into the Dream; Follow Me; A Story Within the Story; Imaginary Day; The Heat of the Day; Across the Sky; The Roots of Coincidence; Message to a Friend; September fifteenth; Minuano [Six Eight].
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: acoustic, electric & synth guitars; Lyle Mays: acoustic piano, keyboards, guitar; Steve Rodby: acoustic & electric basses; Paul Wertico: drums; Mark Ledford: vocals, trumpet, percussion, guitar; Philip Hamilton: vocals, percussion, guitar; Mino Cinelu: percussion; Jeff Haynes: percussion.
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Speaking Of Now | Warner Bros., 2002
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Studio recording, NYC
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Tracks: As It Is; Proof; Another Life; The Gathering Sky; You; On Her Way; A Place In The World; Afternoon; Wherever You Go.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: acoustic, electric & synth guitars; Lyle Mays: acoustic piano, keyboards, guitar; Steve Rodby: acoustic bass; Richard Bona: vocals, percussion; Cuong Vu: trumpet, vocals; Antonio Sanchez: drums.
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The Way Up | Nonesuch, 2005
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Studio recording, New York City, 2003 & 2004
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Tracks: Opening; Part One; Part Two; Part Three.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: acoustic, electric, synth & slide guitars; Lyle Mays: acoustic piano, keyboards; Steve Rodby: acoustic & electric bass, cello; Cuong Vu: trumpet, vocals; Gregoire Maret, harmonica; Antonio Sanchez: drums; Richard Bona: vocals, percussion, voice; David Samuels, percussion.
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As A Side Musician → Index
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Gary Burton: Ring | ECM, 1974
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Studio recording, Ludwigshafen, Germany, July 23 & 24, 1974
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Tracks: Mevlevia; Unfinished Sympathy; Tunnel of Love; Intrude; Silent Spring; The Colours of Chloë.
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Personnel: Gary Burton: vibes; Pat Metheny: guitar; Mick Goodrick: guitar; Eberhard Weber: bass; Steve Swallow: bass; Bob Moses: percussion.
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Gary Burton: Dreams So Real | ECM, 1976
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Studio recording, Ludwigshafen, Germany, December, 1975
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Tracks: Dreams So Real; Ictus / Syndrome / Wrong Key Donkey; Jesus Maria; Vox Humana; Doctor; Intermission Music.
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Personnel: Gary Burton: vibes; Pat Metheny: guitar; Mick Goodrick: guitar; Steve Swallow: bass; Bob Moses: drums.
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Gary Burton: Passengers | ECM, 1977
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Studio recording, Oslo, Norway, November, 1976
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Tracks: Sea Journey; Nacada; The Whopper; B & G; Yellow Fields; Claude and Betty.
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Personnel: Gary Burton: vibes; Pat Metheny: guitar; Eberhard Weber: bass; Steve Swallow: bass guitar; Dan Gottlieb: drums.
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Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light | Asylum, 1980
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Live recording, Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 1979
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Tracks: Introduction; In France They Kiss On Main Street; Edith And The Kingpin; Coyote; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines; Amelia; Pat's Solo; Hejira; Dreamland; Band Intro; Furry Sings The Blues; Why Do Fools Fall In Love; Shadows and Light; God Must Be A Boogie Man; Woodstock.
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Personnel: Joni Mitchell: voice, guitar; Pat Metheny: guitar; Jaco Pastorius: bass; Lyle Mays: piano; Michael Brecker: saxophone; Don Alias: drums; The Persuasions: vocals.
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Ross-Levine Band: That Summer Something | Headfirst, 1981
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Studio recording, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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Pat Metheny on track #1 only
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Track #1: That Summer Something.
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Personnel: Billy Ross: tenor, soprano saxophones, flute, alto flute; Mike Levine; Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano, synthesizers; Peter Harris: electric and acoustic guitars; Jeff Carswell: electric bass; Steve Rucker: drums; Cookie Lopez: conga drums, percussion; Pat Metheny: guitar; Bud Burge: fluegelhorn.
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Célia Vaz: Mutação | Phillips Série Azul, 1981
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on track #6 only
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Track #6: Mutação
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Personnel: Célia Vaz: voice; Pat Metheny: guitar; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Toninho Horta: Toninho Horta | World Pacific, 1981
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on tracks #5 & 10 only
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Track #05: Prato Feito (Today's Special)
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Track #10: Mandel, O Audaz (Manuel The Brave)
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Personnel: Toninho Horta: guitar, voice; Pat Metheny: guitar; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Pedro Aznar: Contemplación | Tabriz Music, 1984
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on tracks #3, 4 & 5 only
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Track #3: Verano en Nueva Inglaterra (Summer in New England)
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Track #4: Para Acunar a Leila: Lullaby for Leila
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Track #5: 23
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Personnel: Pedro Aznar: voice, bass, guitars, piano, OB-Xa synthesizer, pan pipes, bottles, guitar synthesizer, DMX drum machine, drums, bombo legüero; Pat Metheny: guitar; Lyle Mays: piano; Dan Gottlieb: drums; Pomo: cymbals.
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Bob Moses: The Story of Moses | Gramavision, 1986
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Studio recording, Carlisle, Massachusetts, USA, 1986
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Pat Metheny on tracks #1 & 15 only
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Track #01: Overture Go Down Moses
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Track #15: Song of Moses
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Personnel: Tiger Okoshi: trumpet, fluegelhorn; Stan Strickland: tenor and soprano saxophones, wood flute, voice; Leo Quintero: guitar; Jerome Harris: bass and voice; Rahboat Ntumba Moses: drums, talking drum, repinique cuica, Yamaha DX7, piano, kalimba, Kurzwell 250, Guitar linn drum; Pat Metheny: acoustic guitar, guitar synthesizer; Bob Moses: drums; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Mike Metheny: Day In - Night Out | MCA Impulse!, 1986
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Studio recording
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Tracks: Like the Ocean; Day In - Night Out; Vanity; Segment; Saudade; Olvidar; Lakeview Ballad; Epilogue.
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Personnel: Mike Metheny: trumpet, flugelhorn, EVI; Pat Metheny: guitar; Dick Odgren: keyboards; Rufus Reid: bass; Tommy Ruskin: drums; Mitch Coodley: guitar; John Lockwood: bass; Bob Tamagni: drums.
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Notes: Mitch Coodley, John Lockwood and Bob Tamagni on track #1 only
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Michael Brecker: Michael Brecker | MCA/Impulse!, 1987
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Studio recording, New York
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Tracks: Sea Glass; Syzygy; Choices; Nothing Personal; The Cost of Living; Original Rays; My One and Only Love.
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Personnel: Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone; Pat Metheny: guitar; Kenny Kirkland: piano; Charlie Haden: bass; Jack DeJohnette: drums.
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Ricardo Silveira: Long Distance | Polygram, 1988
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Studio recording, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Pat Metheny on track #8 only
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Track #8: Terra Azul
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Personnel: Ze Nogueira: soprano saxophone; Ricardo Silveira: guitars; Pat Metheny: rhythm guitar; Luis Avellar: keyboards; Nico Assumpção: bass; Carlos Bala: drums; Armando Marçal: percussion; Leila Pinheiro: lead vocal; Zé Renato: background voice; Claudio Nucci: background voice; Mauricio Maestro: background voice.
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Toninho Horta: Moonstone | Verve Forecast, 1989
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Studio recording, NYC, between April and June, 1989
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Pat Metheny on track #4 only
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Track #4: Moonstone
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Personnel: Toninho Horta: guitar, voice; Pat Metheny: guitar; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Toninho Horta: Moonstone | Verve Forecast, 1989
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Studio recording, NYC, between April and June, 1989
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Pat Metheny on track #4 only
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Track #4: Moonstone
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Personnel: Toninho Horta: guitar, voice; Pat Metheny: guitar; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Túlio Mourão: Teia De Renda | Visom, 1989
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on track #4 only
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Track #4: Depois da Paixão
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Personnel: Nivaldo Ornelas: saxophone; Túlio Mourão: guitars; Pat Metheny: guitar; João Batista: bass; Robertinho Silva: drums.
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Leila Pinheiro: Olho Nu | Philips, 1989
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on track #2 only
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Track #2: O Fundo
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Personnel: Leila Pinheiro: piano, vocal, ganzá; Pat Metheny: guitar; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Akiko Yano: Welcome Back | Midi, 1989
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Studio recording, November, 1988 - February, 1989
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Pat Metheny on tracks #1, 6 & 9 only
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Track #1: It's For You
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Track #6: How Beautiful
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Track #9: Watching You
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Personnel: Akiko Yano: voice, keyboards; Kaede Akiyama: clarinet; Pat Metheny: guitar; Charlie Haden: bass; Peter Erskine: percussion, drums.
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Jack DeJohnette: Parallel Realities | MCA, 1990
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Studio recording, W. Hurley, NY
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Tracks: Jack In; Exotic Isles; Dancing; Nine Over Reggae; John McKee; Indigo Dreamscapes; Parallel Realities.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Herbie Hancock: keyboards; Dave Holland: bass; Jack DeJohnette: drums.
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Silje Nergaard: Tell Me Where You're Going | EMI/Lifetime, 1990
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on track #11 only
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Track #11: Tell Me Where You're Going
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Personnel: Silje Nergaard: voice, electric piano; Pat Metheny: electric & acoustic guitars; Nils E. Vinjor: electric & acoustic guitars; Knut Reiersrud: electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin, high strung guitar, harmonica; Reidar Skar: piano, synthesizers; Audun Erlien: bass; Neal Wilkinson: drums; Armando Marçal: percussion.
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Gary Burton: Reunion | MCA, 1990
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Studio recording, W. Hurley, NY
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Tracks: Autumn; Reunion; Origin; Will You Say You Will; House On The Hill; Panama; Chairs and Children; Wasn't Always Easy; The Chief; Tiempos Felices; Quick & Running.
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Personnel: Gary Burton: vibes, marimba; Pat Metheny: guitar; Mitchel Forman: keyboards; Will Lee: bass; Peter Erskine: drums.
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Milton Nascimento: Encontros e Despedidas | Polydor, 1991
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on track #11 only
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Track #11: Vidro e Corte (Glass and Cut)
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Personnel: Milton Nascimento: vocals, violin; Pat Metheny: guitar; Wagner Tiso: keyboards; Nico Assumpção: bass; Robertinho Silva: drums; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Akiko Yano: Love Life | Midi, 1991
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on tracks #10-12 only
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Track #10: Iiko Iiko (Good Girl)
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Track #11: Ai Wa Takusan (Lots of Love)
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Track #12: Love Life
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Personnel: Akiko Yano: synthesizer, piano, arranger, keyboards, vocals; Pat Metheny: synthesizer, guitar, guitar synth; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Gary Thomas: Till We Have Faces | Polydor, 1992
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Studio recording, New York, May 8-14, 1992
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Tracks: Angel Eyes; The Best Thing for You; Lush Life; Bye Bye Baby; Lament; Peace; It's You or No One; You Don't Know What Love Is.
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Personnel: Gary Thomas: tenor and soprano saxophones; Pat Metheny: guitars; Tim Murphy: keyboards; Anthony Cox: bass; Ed Howard: bass; Terri Lyne Carrington: drums; Steve Moss: percussion.
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Bruce Hornsby: Harbor Lights | RCA, 1993
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Studio recording, 1993
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Pat Metheny on tracks #1, 2, 4 & 8 only
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Track #1: Harbor Lights
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Track #2: Talk of the Town
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Track #4: China Doll
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Track #8: The Tide Will Rise
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Personnel: Bruce Hornsby: piano, accordion, vocals, organ; Pat Metheny: guitar; others: miscellaneous instruments.
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Paul Wertico: The Yin and the Yout | Intuition, 1993
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Studio recording, NYC
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Tracks: Peruvian Folk Song; Don't Look Back; Long Chart; Dance of the Hunters; From Here to There; Days Like These; Element 103; Max Factor; Triune; Cowboys & Africans.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar; Brian Keane: guitar; Victor Bailey: bass; Richie Beirach: piano; Dave Holland: acoustic bass; David Mann: alto & soprano saxophones; Bob Mintzer: recorder, tenor saxophone; Michael Bearden: keyboards; Mino Cinelu: conga; Howard Levy: jew's-harp, pennywhistle; Dave Liebman: soprano saxophone; Paul Wertico: percussion, arranger, cymbals, drums, programming, electric drums, drum programming, mixing, concept.
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Joshua Redman: Wish | Warner Bros., 1993
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Studio/Live recording, tracks #1-8, studio, NYC; tracks #9 & 10, Village Vanguard, New York
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Tracks: Turnaround; Soul Dance; Make Sure You're Sure; The Deserving Many; We Had A Sister; Moose The Mooche; Tears In Heaven; Whittlin'; Wish; Blues For Pat.
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Personnel: Joshua Redman: saxophone; Pat Metheny: guitar; Charlie Haden: bass; Billy Higgins: drums.
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Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints | CMP, 1994
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Studio recording, Germany, May/June, 1993
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Pat Metheny on tracks #1 & 6 only
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Track #1: Manini
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Track #6: Crazy Saints
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Personnel: Trilok Gurtu: drums, tabla, voice, dol, kanjira, percussion; Daniel Goyone: piano, keyboards; Shobha Gurtu: voice; Pat Metheny: guitar; Joe Zawinal: keyboards, piano; Louis Sclavis: bass clarinet, clarinet, soprano saxophone; Ernst Reijseger: cello; Marc Bertaux: bass.
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Milton Nascimento: Angelus | Warner Brothers, 1994
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on tracks #12-14 only
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Track #12: Vera Cruz
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Track #13: Novena
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Track #14: Amor Amigo
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Personnel: Milton Nascimento; Pat Metheny; Herbie Hancock; Ron Carter; Jack DeJohnette; Robertinho Silva.
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Roy Haynes: Te Vou! | Dreyfus, 1994
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Studio recording
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Tracks: Like This; John McKee; James; If I Could; Blues M45; Trinkle Twinkle; Trigonometry; Good For The Soul.
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Personnel: Donald Harrison: alto saxophone; Pat Metheny: guitar; David Kikoski: piano; Christian McBride: bass; Roy Haynes: drums.
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Bruce Hornsby: Hot House | RCA, 1995
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Studio recording, New York 1994
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Pat Metheny on tracks #2-4, 7 & 8 only
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Tracks: Spider Fingers; White Wheeled Limousine; Walk in the Sun; The Changes; The Tango King; Big Rumble; Country Doctor; The Longest Night; Hot House Ball; Swing Street; Cruise Control.
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Personnel: Bruce Hornsby: piano, accordion, vocals; Pat Metheny: guitar; Béla Fleck: banjo; Jimmy Haslip: bass; John Molo: drums; JT Thomas: organ; Debbie Henry: voice; John D'earth: trumpet; Bobby Read: alto & tenor saxophones.
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Abbey Lincoln: A Turtle's Dream | Verve, 1995
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Home recording
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Pat Metheny on tracks #1, 5, 6 & 11 only
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Tracks: Throw It Away; A Turtle's Dream; Down Here Below; Nature Boy; Avec Le Temps; Should've Been; My Love Is You; Storywise; Hey, Lordy Mama; Not To Worry; Being Me.
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Personnel: Abbey Lincoln: vocals; Pat Metheny; guitar; Charlie Haden: bass; Victor Lewis: drums; Christian McBride: bass; Michael Bowie: bass; Lucky Peterson: guitar; Kenny Barron: piano; Roy Hargrove: trumpet; Julien Lourau: tenor saxphone; Rodney Kendrick: piano.
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Kenny Garrett: Pursuance - The Music of John Coltrane | Warner Brothers, 1996
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Studio recording, New York
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Tracks: Countdown; Equinox; Liberia; Dear Lord; Lonnie's Lament; After The Rain; Like Sonny; Pursuance; Alabama; Giant Steps; Latifa.
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Personnel: Kenny Garrett: alto sax; Pat Metheny: guitar; Rodney Whitaker: bass; Brian Blade: drums.
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Michael Brecker: Tales From The Hudson | MCA/Impulse!, 1996
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Studio recording, New York
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Tracks: Slings and Arrows; Midnight Voyage; Song for Bilbao; Beau Rivage; African Skies; Introduction to Naked Soul; Naked Soul; Willie T.; Cabin Fever.
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Personnel: Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone; Pat Metheny: guitar; Jack DeJohnette: drums; Dave Holland: bass; Joey Calderazzo: piano; McCoy Tyner: piano; Don Alias: percussion.
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Tony Williams: Wilderness | Ark 21, 1996
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Studio recording, Los Angeles, December 6-12, 1995
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Tracks: Wilderness Rising; China Town; Infant Wilderness; Harlem Mist '55; China Road; The Night You Were Born; Wilderness Voyager; Machu Picchu; China Moon; Wilderness Island; Sea of Wilderness; Gambia; Wilderness.
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Personnel: Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone; Pat Metheny: guitar; Herbie Hancock: piano; Stanley Clarke: bass; Tony Williams: drums.
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Akiko Yano: Oui Oui | Sony/Epic, 1997
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Studio recording
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Pat Metheny on tracks #7 & 8 only
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Tracks: Kyoto; Jin Jin; The Stew; Snow; Happiness; Oui Oui; I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry; Brooklyn Bridge; All The Bones Are White.
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Personnel: Akiko Yano: piano, voice; Pat Metheny: guitar, guitar synthesizer; Steve Ferrone: drums; Will Lee: bass; Jeff Bova: synthesizer, synth programming; Mino Cinelu: drums, percussion and keyboards; Anthony Jackson: bass; Noriyuki Makihara: keyboards, backing vocals; Hirokazu Ogura: guitar; Takahiro Iida: synthesizer, synth programming; Cliff Almond: drums; Kasim Sulton: backing voice; Eric Troyer: backing voice; Rory Dadd: backing voice; Hugh McCracken: guitar solo, blues harp.
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Jim Hall: By Arrangement | Telarc, 1998
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Studio recording, NYC
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Pat Metheny on track #1 only
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Track #1: Django
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Personnel: Jim Hall: guitar; Pat Metheny: guitar; various: strings.
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Marc Johnson: The Sound of Summer Running | Verve, 1998
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Studio recording, New York, 1996
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Tracks: Faith in You; Ghost Town; Summer Running; With My Boots On; Union Pacific; Porch Swing; Dingy Dong Day; The Adventures of Max and Ben; In a Quiet Place; For a Thousand Years.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar; Bill Frisell: guitar; Marc Johnson: bass; Joey Baron: drums.
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David Liebman: The Elements: Water - Giver of Life | Arkadia, 1998
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Studio recording, Saylorsburg PA, January 2-5, 1997
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Tracks: Water; White Caps; Heaven's Gift; Bass Interlude; Reflecting Pool; Storm Surge; Guitar Interlude; The Baptismal Font; Ebb and Flow; Water Theme (Reprise).
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Personnel: David Liebman: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, wood flute; Pat Metheny: guitars; Cecil McBee: bass; Billy Hart: drums.
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Mark Ledford: Miles 2 Go | Verve, 1998
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Studio recording, NYC
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Pat Metheny on track #6 only
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Track #6: Summertime
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Personnel: Mark Ledford: vocals, miscellaneous instruments; Pat Metheny: guitars.
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Philip Bailey: Dreams | Heads Up, 1999
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Studio recording
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Track #9: Something to Remind You
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Personnel: Philip Bailey: vocals; Pat Metheny: guitar; Morris Pleasure: keyboards & programming; Doug Barnett: acoustic bass; Mark Ivester: drums; Valene Davis: background vocals.
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Cassandra Wilson: Traveling Miles | Blue Note, 1999
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Studio recording, NYC, December, 1997 & Bearsville, NY, May & September 1998
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Tracks: Run The VooDoo Down; Traveling Miles; Right Here, Right Now; Time After Time; When The Sun Goes Down; Seven Steps; Someday My Prince Will Come; Never Broken (ESP); Resurrection Blues (Tutu); Sky And Sea (Blue In Green); Piper; VooDoo Reprise.
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Personnel: Cassandra Wilson: vocals, acoustic guitar; Angelique Kidjo: vocals; Olu Dara: cornet; Steve Coleman: alto saxophone; Pat Metheny: classical guitar; Marvin Sewell: classical & electric guitars; Doug Wamble: acoustic guitar; Kevin Breit: mandolin, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, greek bazouki, e-bow, mandocello, resophonic guitars; Vincent Henry: harmonica; Regina Carter, violin; Stefon Harris: vibraphone; Cecilia Smith: marimba; Eric Lewis: piano; Lonnie Plaxico: acoustic bass; Dave Holland: acoustic bass; Mino Cinelu: percussion; Jeffrey Haynes: percussion; Perry Wilson: drums; Marcus Baylor: drums, percussion.
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Kenny Garrett: Simply Said | Warner Brothers, 1999
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Tracks: G.T.D.S.; Charlie Brown Goes to South Africa; Delta Bali Blues; Conversation with Hutcherson; Words Can't Express; Back Where You Started; Sounds Like Winter; Can I Just Hold Your Hand?; Organized Colors; 3rd Quadrant; Simply Said.
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Personnel: Kenny Garrett: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, sopranino; Shedrick Mitchell: piano, organ; Nat Reeves: acoustic bass; Chris Daddy Dave: drums; Pat Metheny: electric & acoustic guitars; Marcus Miller: electric bass; Bashiri Johnson: percussion; Jeff 'Tain' Watts: drums; Bashiri Johnson: percussion.
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Michael Brecker: Time is of the Essence | MCA/Impulse!, 1999
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Studio recording, New York
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Tracks: Arc of the Pendulum; Sound Off; Half Past Late; Timeline; The Morning of This Night; Renaissance Man (for Eddie Harris); Dr. Slate; As I Am; Outrance.
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Personnel: Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone; Pat Metheny: guitar; Larry Goldings: organ; Elvin Jones: drums; Jeff 'Tain' Watts: drums; Bill Stewart: drums.
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Charlie Haden: Nocturne | Verve, 2001
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Tracks: En la Orilla del Mundo (At the Edge of the World); Noche de Ronda (Night of Wandering); Nocturnal; Moonlight (Claro de Luna); Yo Sin Ti (Me Without You); No Te Empeñes (Don't Try Anymore); Transparence; El Ciego (The Blind); Nightfall; Tres Palabras (Three Words); Contigo en la Distancia (With You in the Distance) / En Nosostros (In Us).
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Personnel: Charlie Haden: bass; Gonzalo Rubalcaba: piano, orchestration; Ignacio Berroa: percussion, drums; Pat Metheny: acoustic guitar; Joe Lovano: tenor saxophone; Federico Britos Ruiz: violin; David Sanchez: tenor saxophone.
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Under Fire | Warner Brothers, 1983
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Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith, Orchestration by Arthur Morton
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The Falcon and the Snowman | EMI, 1985
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Soundtrack by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
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Tracks: Psalm 121 / Flight of the Falcon; Daulton Lee; Chris; “The Falcon”; This Is Not America; Extent of the Lie; The Level of Deception; Capture; Epilogue (Psalm 121).
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitars; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Paul Wertico: drums; Pedro Aznar: percussion, voice; David Bowie: vocals; National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Steve Rodby.
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Toys | UNI/Geffen, 1992
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Produced by Pat Metheny, Trevor Horn, Nicky Ryan and Hans Zimmer
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Track #7: Let Joy And Innocence Prevail (Instrumental)
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Passagio Per il Paradiso | Geffen, 1996
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Soundtrack by Pat Metheny
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Tracks: Theme from “Passagio Per Il Paradiso”; Marta's Theme; The Roads of Marche; Marta's House Story; Wolf Story; Marta's Stag Story; Learning On the Road; Private; Marta On the Bus, Marta In the Fields; Remembering Home, Meeting the Kids; Renato's Theme; Finale (It's Always Worth The Trouble); Don't Forget - (Renato's Theme).
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: all instruments.
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A Map of the World | Warner Brothers, 1999
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Soundtrack by Pat Metheny
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Tracks: A Map of the World; Family; North; Home; Sisters; Childhood; Fall From Grace; Memory; Gone; Flight; Alone; Outcasts; Sunday; Discovery; Acceptance; Realization; Soliloquy; Night; Sunrise; Resolution; Pictures; Patience; Transition; Reunion; Renewal; Homecoming; Forgiveness; Holding Us.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar, piano, keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; David Samuels: percussion; orchestra; orchestrated by Gil Goldstein.
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Pat Metheny Group: A New Phase Of The Guitar | Shout To The Top Records, 2000
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Recorded in NYC, July 17, 1977
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Tracks: Phase Dance; Air Stream; April Joy; Unquity Road; The Epic; James; Old Folks; Jaco; The Magicians's Theater; San Lorenzo; Cross The Heartland.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Mark Egan: bass; Dan Gottlieb: drums.
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Pat Metheny Group: Blue Asphalt / Blue Light
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Released 1991 by Jazz Door titled Blue Asphalt & Blue Light
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Released 1992 by Multi Coloured Music titled Blue Light
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Recorded at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, August 31, 1977
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Tracks: Phase Dancer; Watercolors; San Lorenzo; Wrong Is Right.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric and acoustic guitars, 12 string guitar; Lyle Mays: piano, organ, keyboards; Mark Egan: acoustic and electric basses; Dan Gottlieb: drums.
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Pat Metheny Group: Clouds | Paradise Records, 1991
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Recorded at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, August 31, 1977
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Tracks: Phase Dance; Missouri Uncompromised; Unity Village / Guitar Solo; The Epic; Jaco; American Garage.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric and acoustic guitars; Lyle Mays: organ, piano, autoharp, electric piano; Mark Egan: fretless electric bass guitar; Dan Gottlieb: drums, percussion.
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Pat Metheny Group: Unity Village | Jazz Door, 1979
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Recorded June, 1979
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Tracks: Phase Dance; Missouri; Unity Village; Guitar Solo; The Epic; Jaco; American Garage.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar; Lyle Mays: piano, keyboards; Mark Egan: bass; Danny Gottlieb: drums, percussion.
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Pat Metheny Group: Salt Lake | Paradise Records, 1982
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Recorded in Italy, December, 1981
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Tracks: As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls; Offramp; It's for You; San Lorenzo; Here's That Rainy Day; Down Here on the Ground; (Cross the) Heartland; American Garage.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric and acoustic guitar, synclavier guitar; Lyle Mays: organ, piano, autoharp, electric piano; Steve Rodby: electric bass guitar; Dan Gottlieb: drums, percussion; Nana Vasconcelos: vocals, percussion.
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Pat Metheny Group: Jaco | Jazz Master, 1982
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Recorded at Moor Theater Seattle, Washington, November 19, 1981
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Tracks: Phase Dance; Guitar Solo - The Windup; James; Offramp; It's For You; The Bat (Part II); Percussion - Piano Solo; Turnaround; Jaco.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric and acoustic guitar; Lyle Mays: keyboards; Steve Rodby: bass; Danny Gottlieb: drums; Nana Vasconcelos: percussion.
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Pat Metheny Group: The Windup | Paradise Records, 1984
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Recorded in Ferrara, Italy, March 3, 1983
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Tracks: Are You Going With Me?; The Fields, The Sky; The Song with No Name; As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls; Jaco; Phase Dance; Travels; The Windup; James; Extradition; Offramp; Farmer's Trust; Goodbye; Straight On Red; Turnaround; San Lorenzo; Introducing the Band; Song for Bilbao; (Cross the) Heartland.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: Roland GR 300 guitar synthesizer, Gibson ES 175 electric guitar, Ovation classic guitar, IBANEZ Artist 12 string electric guitar; Lyle Mays: piano, Oberheim, synclavier, Prophet 5, Yamaha YC-20 electric organ; Steve Rodby: acoustic bass, electric bass, synthesizer bass; Paul Wertico: drums; Pedro Aznar: percussion, acoustic guitar, voice.
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Jack DeJohnette's Parallel Realities: Flower Hour | Beech Marten / Jazz Door, 1990
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Tracks: Shadow Dance; Indigo Dreamscapes; 9 Over Reggae; Solar; Silver Hoolow; The Good Life; Blue; Eye Of The Hurricane; The Bat; Cantaloupe Island.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: acoustic and electric guitar, synthesizer, orchestration; Herbie Hancock: piano, keyboards; Dave Holland: electric and acoustic basses; Jack DeJohnette: cymbals, drums, keyboards, keyboard, bass.
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Pat Metheny Group: Ice Dreams | Baby Capone, 1993
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Tracks: Have You Heard; Every Summer Night; Better Days Ahead; Last Train Home; If I Could; Spring Ain't Here; Straight on Red; Minuano (Six eight); Third Wind; The Bat.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric and acoustic guitars, 12 string guitar, synclavier guitar; Lyle Mays: piano, organ, keyboards, accordion, trumpet, synclavier; Steve Rodby: electric and acoustic basses; Armando Marcal: percussion; Pedro Aznar: voice, acoustic guitar, percussion; Paul Wertico: drums, caja, percussion.
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Pat Metheny Group: In Concert | Jazz Door, 1993
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Tracks: Have You Heard; Every Summer Night; Better Days Ahead; Last Train Home; If I Could; Spring Ain't Here; Straight on Red; Minuano (Six eight); Third Wind.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric and acoustic guitars, 12 string guitar, synclavier guitar; Lyle Mays: piano, organ, keyboards, accordion, trumpet, synclavier; Steve Rodby: electric and acoustic basses; Armando Marcal: percussion; Pedro Aznar: voice, acoustic guitar, percussion; Paul Wertico: drums, caja, percussion.
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Pat Metheny: This World | Octopus Records, 1994
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Recorded at the State Theatre, New Bunnswich, New Jersey, USA, November 24, 1993
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Tracks: Above The Treetops; Facing West; Rain River; How Insensitive; Finding and Believing; See The World; Antonia; The Truth Will Always Be; Tell Her You Saw Me.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: synthesizer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, piano, electric bass, keyboards, electric piano, synthesizer guitar, electric sitar guitar, keyboard, electric percussion; Lyle Mays: piano; Steve Rodby: acoustic bass, electric bass; Paul Wertico: drums; Armando Marcal: percussion; Torsten De Winkel: vocals; Gil Goldstein: piano, accordion, conductor; David Blamires: vocals; Mark Ledford: vocals; Jim Beard, keyboards.
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Tracks: You Speak My Language; The Red One; No Matter What; No Way Jose; Message To My Friend; Say The Brother's Name; Summertime; Everybody's Party; Chasin' The Rain.
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Personnel: John Scofield: guitar; Pat Metheny: guitar; Steve Swallow: bass; Bill Stewart: drums.
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Pat Metheny: Autumn Leaves | Oxygen, 1995
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Recorded at Gotanda Hall, Tokyo, Japan, October 8, 1995
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Tracks: Have You Heard; And Then I Knew; Here To Stay; First Circle; Scrap Metal; Farmer's Trust; Episode d'Azur; Third Wind; This Is Not America; Minuano (Six-Eight); Stranger In Town.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric and acoustic guitars, guitar synthesizer; Lyle Mays: piano, keyboards; Eberhard Weber: bass; Dan Gottlieb: drums.
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Pat Metheny Trio: Umbria Jazz Festival
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Recorded at the Umbria Jazz Festival, Perugia, Italy, July 17, 1999
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Tracks: Turnaround; James; The Good Life; Unity Village; Jam; Into The Dream; So It May Secretly Begin; Question and Answer; Free Form Music; The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Waltz for Ruth; Lone Jack.
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Steve Reich: Different Trains | Electric Counterpoint | Elektra/Nonesuch, 1989
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Different Trains (tracks #1-3) performed by the Kronos Quartet
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Electric Counterpoint (tracks #4-6) performed by Pat Metheny
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Tracks: America - Before The War; Europe - During The War; After The War; I: Fast; II: Slow; III: Fast.
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Personnel: David Harrington: violin; John Sherba: violin; Hank Dutt: viola; Joan Jeanrenaud: cello; Pat Metheny: guitar, electric bass.
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Pat Metheny: Works | ECM, 1991
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Compilation
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Tracks: Sueño con México; (Cross the) Heartland; Travels; James; “It's for You”; Every Day (I Thank You); Goin' Ahead.
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Pat Metheny: Works II | ECM, 1991
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Tracks: Unquity Road; Unity Village; Open; Story from a Stranger; Oasis; Sirabhorn; Farmer's Trust.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar.
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A Special Conversation with Pat Metheny | Geffen, 1992
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hosted by Roy Firestone
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Tracks: The need to make the album; Soundtrack of a life; Global musical colors; Music, travel and inspiration; Writing for yourself; Art - To disturb or to define?; About “Above The Treetops”; About “Facing West”; Collaboration & Jeremy Lubbock; Perfection; It's getting longer and longer; Composing on piano; Pat and the piano; “Sunlight” and Burt Bacharach; The state of pop music; “Always and Forever” and Tony Bennett; Working with Toots; As good as I can do; Acoustic vs. machine; It just matters how you're playing; Tell us about Nana Vasconcelos; Charlie Haden; ...James Taylor “Great musician...on the instrument”; Aaron Copland; Cinematic; They might be surprised; Romance and Secret Story; The musical answer; Have you hit it yet?; Closing.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: voice.
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Pat Metheny: Secret Story | Geffen, 1993
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Studio recording, fall-winter 1991-1992
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Tracks: Above The Treetops; Facing West; Cathedral In A Suitcase; Finding and Believing; The Longest Summer; Sunlight; Rain River; Always and Forever; See The World; As A Flower Blossoms (I Am Running To You); Antonia; The Truth Will Always Be; Tell Her You Saw Me; Not To Be Forgotten (Our Final Hour).
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: guitar, piano, keyboards, electric bass, etc.; Lyle Mays; Charlie Haden; Nana Vasconcelos; Armando Marçal; Steve Ferrone; Will Lee; Mark Ledford; Steve Rodby; Paul Wertico; Gil Goldstein; Danny Gottlieb; Toots Thielmans; Andy Findon; Michael Mossman; Mike Metheny; Ryan Kisor; Tom Malone; Dave Taylor; Dave Bargeron; John Clark; Anthony Jackson; Akiko Yano; Skaila Kanga; members of the Pinpeat Orchestra of the Royal Ballet and the Choir of the Cambodian Royal Palace and members of the London Orchestra conducted by Jeremy Lubbock.
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Various Artists: Kool Jazz at Midem | Digimode, 1994
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Live recording, Palais de Congres, Cannes, France, January 28, 1983
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Track #1: Introduction/Move To The Groove.
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Personnel: Pat Metheny: electric guitar; Jimmy Heath: reeds; Percy Heath: bass; Albert Heath: drums.
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Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny

Contents

Introduction

Pat Metheny is one of the leading voices in the field of contemporary jazz, and also had a great success in the fusion genre. He has written music for film scores and collaborated with most of the great jazz musicians of our time. He is regarded as the crème de la crème amongst musicians, and has a distinguished sound and an unique composition style. He has been awarded 17 Grammys in different genres during the years (10 for PMG) , and is still touring between 120-240 days a year.

Early Career

Pat Metheny (Patrick Bruce Metheny) was born on August 12, 1954, Lee's Summit, Missouri, U.S.A. (a suburb of Kansas City) He has an elder brother that plays the trumpet, which Pat also played from age 8. He switched to guitar at age 12, and progressed very fast. He states Wes Montgomery as one of his early influences, but horn-players like Ornette Coleman, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker were also a source of inspiration. At the age 15 he was already jamming with top-notch players in Kansas City. Vibraphone-player Gary Burton saw the potential in the talented teenager, and Pat later joined Gary Burton's band.

After graduating from Lee's Summit High School, Pat moved to Florida in order to attend University of Miami. He studied just one semester before he was offered a position as a teacher, which he also took. He was teaching a short period before he was offered a teaching position at Berkeley College of Music. In Miami he also met Jaco Pastorius, whom he played with and became a close friend until Jaco's death.

In 1974 he joined Gary Burton's band and stayed with him for three years. He replaced Mike Goodrich in the band, and he is present on the record "Ring". At the same time Pat jammed with Jaco and Gary Burton's drummer Bob Moses, and together with Paul Bley they made Jaco's debut-album just entitled "Jaco". The year after, a new label ECM, offered him to make a solo recording. This led to the milestone "Bright Size Life", which featured Jaco and Bob Moses, that is considered one of the finest jazz albums made in the 70's.

At the same time Pat also met Lyle Mays which he later co-formed Pat Metheny Group with and is his alter-ego in terms of the piano. The next album Pat recorded for ECM (who is best known for their "spacy" recordings) was "Watercolours" with Lyle May's and this album can be seen as the embryo to Pat Metheny Group. On the album Pat play's a lot of acoustic guitar to create an open an interesting sound.

Against the top

The first Pat Metheny Group

In 1978 Pat formed the first version of Pat Metheny Group with Lyle May's, Jaco's bass-protege' Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb. The debut-album just entitled "Pat Metheny Group" marks a beginning of a new style in the fusion genre, and is more "easy-listening" than "Bright Size Life", which is more for jazz connosieurs. The beats are more latin-like and both pop and folk influences can be heard along with a strong melodic approach. The most famous song from this album is probably "Phase Dance", which every jazz/fusion player at that time covered.

The sound of the first version of Pat Metheny Group is marked by Pat's use of two Eventide delays and reverb to get an open sound as well as Lyle May's use of Oberheim & Prophet 5 synthesizers in addition to the piano. Later on both of them started to use the Synclavier - a top-notch synthesizer at that time. Pat used it in conjunction with the first Roland guitar synths, which he still uses.

The follow up to the first album was the success "American Garage" from 1980, reaching #1 on the Billboard Jazz chart and even attended the Pop charts. The first song from the album "Cross the Heartland" has an almost pop-like atmosphere, which a lot of people seemed to like, not just jazz/fusion-musicians. The band then started to tour all over the world on a very tight schedule for the next couple of years.

Parallell Career's

At the same time Pat was working with his band, he had - unbelievable or not - time to make a solo release in 1979 called "New Chataqua", which featured himself on all guitars and basses with no other musicians involved. He was also making a record with the contemporary jazz group 80/81, as well as some touring the same years. The band incoorperated the late Michael Brecker, Dewey Redman and legend drummer Jack de Johnette. With this album Pat proved to the "core" jazz audience that he had'nt got "commercial", which he sometimes got critics for. He was also participating in Joni Mitchell's band on the highly acclaimed "Shadows and Light" -tour playing music by Charles Mingus. Another duo-cooperation with Lyle Mays apart from Pat Metheny Group resulted in the album "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" from 1981.

Introducing latin music

Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Group

The band released "Offramp" in 1982 with the introduction of a new line-up, except for Lyle Mays. Steve Rodby was playing the bass and Paul Wertico the drums. Along with the group was also Nana Vasconcelos, who played percussion and sang wordless vocals. The groups sound moved towards latin music which intensified even further when the album "First Circle" from 1984 was released. A double live-album was also released in 1983, containing all Pat's "hits" up til then, and showed Pat using Roland's guitar synth extensively as well as an awesome production.

Hitting Top 40

Pat Metheny/Lyle wrote the music for the movie "the Falcon and the Snowman" in 1985, and his group was playing at the soundtrack. Pat had for a couple of years beeing playing on some soundtracks, and were asked to do the complete soundtrack for this movie, which is a spy story featuring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn. David Bowie performed the lead theme as well as getting credits for co-producing the soundtrack. The lead motif "This is not America", reached #32 at Billboard, and #14 in England. The soundtrack added even more importance to Pat's reputation as composer and presented him to an even larger audience.

Further explorations

Switching record company

In 1986 Pat recorded with his older brother Mike Metheny, a skilled Kansas City based trumpeter, an album (Day in -Night out) that reached #18 in the jazz charts. The same year Pat also got a chance to record with one of his role models Ornette Coleman, which produced the critic's success "Song X", that has been re-released in this century, digitally mastered containing 6 previously unreleased tracks from the session.

Pat took his ideas about latin music even further on the next album "Still Life (Talking)" (1987), introducing percussionist Armando Marçal. Before the record was made, he switched record company after some disputes with Manfred Eicher (founder of the ECM label) about his artistic freedom. Pat signed a new record deal with Geffen Records, that was a part of Warner Records by that time, which Pat also changed to in 1997. (Pat was a cornerstone in ECM's business, saleswise. Ed. note.)

In 1989 came "Letter from Home", which was the last album before Pat took a break from the band lasted almost 4 years in order to work on other projects/collaborations.

Symphonics, duos and noice

In 1992 Pat wrote "Secret Story", a symphonic work that incoorperated Pinpeat Orchestra of the Royal Ballet, the London Symphony Orchestra and its conductor Jeremy Lubbock, the Choir of the Cambodian Royal Palace, Lyle Mays. all orchestrations were made by Jeremy Lubbock, and Pat even took the setup on a small tour which produced a live-dvd released in 2001.

With fellow-guitarist John Scofield, he recorded "I can see Your house from there" (1993) as a duo recording accompanied by Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart. The recording spots originals written by both Pat and John Scofield and is regarded as legandary amongst guitar players.

He also made a solo-album entitled "Zero Tolerance for Silence" in 1994, which saw Pat playing distorted guitar, overdubbing guitars, playing blues and experimenting with sounds. The record was highly controversial and totally written down by the critics and Pat's fans wanted him to draw the release back, which he refused to.

In these years (without Pat Metheny Group) Pat seemed to focus on finding a new approach as well as playing with other great jazz musicians, a live album was made with Jack De Johnette, Dave Holland, and Herbie Hancock, and a trio album with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes was also released. But obviously his work with London Symphony Orchestra took the most of his time.

PMG finds new directions & playing with the greats

Pat Metheny with Gary Burton
Pat Metheny with Gary Burton

Other influences

In 1995 Pat Metheny Group released the first studio album in 6 years, although a live album with some older studio cuts were released two years earlier. "We Live Here" marks a change in the bands direction, featuring hip-hop influences, free form improvisations and blues theme's. In a commercial context, this approach was not succesful, and the bands forthcoming records "Quartet" (1996), and "Imaginary Day" (1997) also followed this tradition. In 1997 Pat took another break from the band that doesn't re-emerged until 2002.

Exploring contemporary jazz & performing with the greats

Pat was highly active as both a recording musician as well on performing with some of the greatest players around between the years 1995-2000. He continueed the duo tradition with an album with legendary guitarist Jim Hall, as well as a duo release with Charlie Haden.

He participated on albums with Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, and Dave Holland and collaborated with guitarist Bill Frisell on "The Sound of Summer Running" (1998) with bassist Marc Johnson & drummer Joey Baron. He also continueed to teach, which he had been doing on and off since the 70's, making him one of the most appreciated lectures throughout University's of Music throughout the world.

The return of Pat Metheny Group

In 2002 Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays formed a new line-up of Pat Metheny Group that incorporated several younger musicians, that actually had grown up with their music. Drummer Antonio Sanchez (also in Pat's trio) from Mexico were added, and so was bass virtouso/multi-instrumentalist Richard Bona from Cameroon. (also with Mike Stern, ed. note) Steve Rodby was still along from the old band, and other newcomers on the release was trumpet player Cuong Vu and David Samuels on percussion/Marimba. The music heads back to the sound a little more than on the previous three releases, and have a more "classic" PMG sound, even that the introduction of Cuong Vu's trumpet adds sparkle and light to Pat's music.

The big change in the band's music came however in 2005, when they released the album "The Way Up". added to the sound was Swiss harmonica player Gregoire Maret. Pat collaborated with minimalistic composer Steve Reich, back in 1987 on the album "Electric Counterpoint". This approach may have inspired Pat and Lyle Mays for the album, that are just one song spanning 63 minutes. Though the music have several "cues" and themes are there plenty of room for improvisation and a lot of counterpoint themes can be found. On the world tour in 2005, PMG got standing ovations on almost every of the 90(!) concerts.

Other projects

In 2003 Pat recorded a solo album entitled "One Quiet Night", which like "New Chataquoa" featured just himself playing all guitars & bass. On the release he plays both 12-string and the Baritone guitar. On the album was Norah Jones "Don't Know Why" (Jesse Harris), as well as Ferry cross the Mersey and "My Song" by Keith Jarret. The album won a Grammy in 2004, for Pat's subtile rendering and was critic and public success.

Besides this he was also present on solo recordings by Michael Brecker, Charlie Haden, Cassandra Wilson amongst others.

Up til now....

Since 2005 Pat has been recording with artist such as his friend Michael Brecker (on his last record "Pilgrimage"), started to collaborate with piano virtouso Brad Mehldau, recorded his trio, playing spanish music with singer Enrique Morente and written theatre-music for an off-Broadway show. He has also been touring extensively with different line-ups and held several lessons/lectures at the Universitys throughout the World. Pat doesn't seems to slow down, and the voice of this truly unique musician will continue to linger on! At this moment when this is written, Pat are planning a tour with Gary Burton, which soon shall begin!

The trio tradition

Pat had since the release of "Bright Size Life" always performed/recorded with different trio setup's, a band configuration which he seems to like a lot. Since he during the years has done a lot of teaching, the trio format has also been convenient in these situations. In 1983 he recorded "Rejoicing", which included legendary musicians Billy Higgins (drums) and Charlie Haden (double bass). Pat has on almost all trio recording's played a lot of "standards", which have kept him as a favourite player amongst the jazz connossieurs audience. His trios had featured different line-ups throughout the years, but has always been considered amongst the finest in the world of jazz guitar. "Qustion and Answer" from featured Dave Holland and Roy Haynes, while his trio from around 2000 was containing Bill Stewart and Larry Grenadier. His current trio consists of Antonio Sanchez and Christian McBride.

Style

Pat Metheny has a very fluid style of playing guitar, and he uses both legato and picking techniques. He favors to sometimes end the phrases with an upward glissando. He is a truly modern player, who uses a lot of chromatism and alternative pentatonics as well as post be-bop phrasing. His style is influented of horn players rather than guitar players. He developed a phrase which is known as "the Pat Metheny lick", which is actually a broken chord, starting on the mid-tone and transposed up & down the neck. He has also an unique rhytmic approach in both playing acoustics & electrics, and his voice is immidiately recognizeable.

Gear

Pat Metheny with the "Pikasso" guitar
Pat Metheny with the "Pikasso" guitar

Guitars:
Gibson ES-175
Ibanez PM1000
This is Pat Metheny's signature guitar model, made by Ibanez. He owns a couple of them (modified to his special needs) Linda Manzer Guitars (acoustic, 12-string and Baritone) Roland GR-300

Other Guitars:
-Guild dreadnaught cutaway (permanently in Nashville tuning)
-Ovation nylon guitar
-Sadowsky solid body nylon stringed guitar
-Coral electric sitar

Guitar amps:
Acoustic 134 (until 1994)
Digitech 2101 GSP Guitar Pre amp
Ashly Mosfet 200 power amp routed to JBL speakers
Crest 6001 stereo power amp

Guitar Effects:
Lexicon Prime Time Digital Delay
The output of the Digitech, just like the Acoustic 134, is connected to 2 Lexicon digital delays, one on his left at 14 Ms and one on his right at 26 Ms.

Pat uses 0.11 flatwound strings and a large pick (holded with three fingers), using the back of the pick.

He also developed the "Pikasso" -guitar with Linda Manzer, which is a harp-guitar containing two F-holes and four necks. It can be heard on the album "Quartets".

Videos/Sound



Discography

Solo:
New Chautauqua
Zero Tolerance for Silence
One Quiet Night

Duos:
Beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories) | Verve, 1997 (w. Charlie Haden: bass)
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1996)

Trios:
Bright Size Life (1976)
(Jaco Pastorius: bass; Bob Moses: drums)
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)
(Lyle Mays: keyboards; Nana Vasconcelos: percussion, voice)
Rejoicing (1984)
(Charlie Haden: bass; Billy Higgins: drums)
Question & Answer (1990)
(Dave Holland: bass; Roy Haynes: drums)
Trio 99→00 (2000)
(Larry Grenadier: bass; Bill Stewart: drums)
Trio→Live (2000)
(Larry Grenadier: bass; Bill Stewart: drums)

Quartets:
Jaco Pastorius - Pat Metheny - Bruce Ditmas - Paul Bley (1974)
(Reissued by DIW (Japan) titled “Jaco”)
Watercolours (1977)
(Lyle Mays: piano; Eberhard Weber: bass; Dan Gottlieb: drums)
I Can See Your House From Here (1994)
. (John Scofield: guitar; Steve Swallow: bass; Bill Stewart: drums)
Pat Metheny Group: Quartet (1996)
(Lyle Mays: piano, non-tuned spinet piano, celeste, pedal harmonium, autoharps, electric piano, clavinet, Steve Rodby: acoustic bass, piccolo bass; Paul Wertico: drums & percussion.)
The Sign of Four (1997)
(Live recording, Derek Bailey: guitars; Pat Metheny: guitars, Paul Wertico: drums, percussion, Greg Bendian: drums, percussion)

Quintets: 80/81 (1980)
(Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone, Dewey Redman: tenor saxophone; Charlie Haden: bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums)
Song X (1986)
(Ornette Coleman: alto saxophone, violin, Charlie Haden: bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums, Denardo Coleman: drums, percussion)
Burton - Corea - Metheny - Haynes - Holland: Like Minds (1998)
(Gary Burton: vibes, Pat Metheny: guitar, Chick Corea: piano, Dave Holland: bass, Roy Haynes: drums)

Pat Metheny Group:
Pat Metheny Group (1978)
American Garage (1979)
Offramp (1982)
Travels (1983)
First Circle (1984)
Still Life (talkin) (1987)
Letter From Home (1990)
The Road to You (1993)
We Live Here (1995)
Quartet (1996)
Imaginary Day (1997)
Imaginary Day Live (2001) [DVD]
Speaking Of Now (2002)
The Way Up (2005)

As A Side Musician:
Gary Burton: Ring (1974)
Gary Burton: Dreams So Real (1976)
Gary Burton: Passengers (1977)
Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light (1980)
Ross-Levine Band: That Summer Something (1981)
Célia Vaz: Mutação (1981)
Toninho Horta: Toninho Horta (1981)
Pedro Aznar: Contemplación (1984)
Mike Metheny: Day In - Night Out (1986)
Michael Brecker: Michael Brecker (1987)
Ricardo Silveira: Long Distance (1988)
Toninho Horta: Moonstone (1989)
Túlio Mourão: Teia De Renda (1989)
Leila Pinheiro: Olho Nu (1989)
Akiko Yano: Welcome Back (1989)
Jack DeJohnette: Parallel Realities (1990)
Silje Nergaard: Tell Me Where You're Going (1990)
Gary Burton: Reunion (1990)
Milton Nascimento: Encontros e Despedidas (1991)
Akiko Yano: Love Life (1991)
Gary Thomas: Till We Have Faces (1992)
Bruce Hornsby: Harbor Lights (1993)
Paul Wertico: The Yin and the Yout (1993)
Joshua Redman: Wish (1993)
Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints (1994)
Milton Nascimento: Angelus (1994)
Roy Haynes: Te Vou! (1994)
Bruce Hornsby: Hot House (1995)
Abbey Lincoln: A Turtle's Dream (1995)
Kenny Garrett: Pursuance - The Music of John Coltrane (1996)
Michael Brecker: Tales From The Hudson (1996)
Tony Williams: Wilderness (1996)
Akiko Yano: Oui Oui (1997)
Jim Hall: By Arrangement (1998)
Marc Johnson: The Sound of Summer Running (1998)
David Liebman: The Elements: Water - Giver of Life (1998)
Mark Ledford: Miles 2 Go (1998)
Philip Bailey: Dreams (1999)
Cassandra Wilson: Traveling Miles (1999)
Kenny Garrett: Simply Said (1999)
Michael Brecker: Time is of the Essence (1999)
Charlie Haden: Nocturne (2001)

Soundtracks:
Under Fire (1983)
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Toys (1992)
Passagio Per il Paradiso (1996)
A Map of the World (1999)

Bootlegs:
Pat Metheny Group: A New Phase Of The Guitar (2000)
Pat Metheny Group: Blue Asphalt / Blue Light (1991)
Pat Metheny Group: Clouds (1991)
Pat Metheny Group: Unity Village (1979)
Pat Metheny Group: Salt Lake (1982)
Pat Metheny Group: Jaco (1982)
Pat Metheny Group: The Windup (1984)
Jack DeJohnette's Parallel Realities: (1990)
Pat Metheny Group: Ice Dreams (1993)
Pat Metheny Group: In Concert (1993)
Pat Metheny: This World (1994)
John Scofield & Pat Metheny: You Speak My Language
Pat Metheny: Autumn Leaves (1995)
Pat Metheny Trio: Umbria Jazz Festival

Miscellaneous:
Steve Reich: Different Trains | Electric Counterpoint | Elektra/Nonesuch, (1989
Electric Counterpoint (tracks #4-6) performed by Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny: Works (1991) Compilation
Pat Metheny: Works II (1991) Compilation
A Special Conversation with Pat Metheny (1992)
Pat Metheny: Secret Story (1993)
Various Artists: Kool Jazz at Midem (1994)

See also

Pat Metheny homepage
PM at all about jazz

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