Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny (/məˈθiːni/ mə-THEE-nee; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.
He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-bop, Latin jazz and jazz fusion. Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards. He is the brother of jazz flugelhornist and journalist Mike Metheny.
Biography
Metheny was born and raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri, a suburb southeast of Kansas City. At age 15, he won a Down Beat scholarship to a one-week jazz camp and was taken under the wing of guitarist Attila Zoller. Zoller also invited the young Metheny to New York City to see the likes of Jim Hall and Ron Carter. Following his graduation from Lee's Summit High School, Metheny briefly attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida in 1972, where he was quickly offered a teaching position. He then moved to Boston to take a teaching assistantship at the Berklee College of Music with jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton. He first made his name as a teenage prodigy under the wing of Burton. In 1974 he made his recording debut on two sessions for pianist Paul Bley and Carol Goss' Improvising Artists label, along with fretless electric bassist Jaco Pastorius.
Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Group is a jazz fusion group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist, composer and bandleader Pat Metheny; and keyboardist and composer Lyle Mays, who was part of the group's inception in 1977. Other long-standing members include bassist and producer Steve Rodby, who joined in 1981, and Paul Wertico, who was the group's drummer for 18 years from 1983 to 2001.
History
1970s
Founder Pat Metheny first emerged on the jazz scene in the mid-1970s with a pair of solo albums. First was Bright Size Life, released in 1976, a trio album with bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. The next album, released in 1977, was Watercolors, featuring Eberhard Weber on bass, pianist Lyle Mays, and drummer Danny Gottlieb.
Despite the common description of Metheny's music as "fusion," it was always his intention to create improvised music that had a greater emphasis on bringing out harmony than anything common to what was called "fusion" of the time. Pastorius, with whom Metheny struck up a friendship while the two attended the University of Miami and later toured in Joni Mitchell's backing band during her transition from her earlier folk rock compositions to those with more jazz influence, had at the same time explored melodic lines for his instrument within the melodies normally heard, rather than just providing a simple bassline, revolutionizing the way the bass guitar was viewed by the musical establishment. The two friends would talk into the late evening during the early 1970s and discuss the new possibilities their instruments held.
Pat Metheny Group (album)
Pat Metheny Group is the first album by Pat Metheny Group, released in 1978. It features Pat Metheny on guitars, Lyle Mays on piano and synthesizer, Mark Egan on electric bass, and Dan Gottlieb on drums.
Track listing
Personnel
Charts
Album - Billboard
References
Podcasts:
Pat Metheny
ALBUMS
- Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) released: 2014
- Tap: Book of Angels, Volume 20 released: 2013
- Live in Germany 2003 released: 2013
- The Orchestrion Project released: 2013
- Unity Band released: 2012
- Live In Cannes, 28 January 1983 released: 2011
- Live In New York City, 16 June 1974 released: 2011
- Jim Hall & Pat Metheny released: 2011
- What's It All About released: 2011
- Orchestrion released: 2010
- Quartet Live released: 2009
- The Move to the Groove Session (feat. Jimmy Heath) released: 2008
- Tokyo Day Trip Live (feat. Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez) released: 2008
- Day Trip (feat. Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez) released: 2008
- Upojenie released: 2008
- Metheny Mehldau released: 2006
- Song X released: 2005
- The Song Is You released: 2004
- North Sea Jazz Festival 2002 released: 2002
- Parallel Universe released: 2001
- Move to the Groove released: 2001
- Under Fire released: 2000
- All the Things You Are released: 1999
- Jim Hall & Pat Metheny released: 1999
- A Map of the World released: 1999
- The Sign of 4 released: 1997
- Passaggio per il paradiso released: 1997
- Dream Teams released: 1994
- Jaco released: 1994
- This World released: 1994
- I Can See Your House From Here released: 1994
- Flower Hour released: 1992
- Parallel Realities Live... released: 1992
- Zero Tolerance for Silence released: 1992
- Secret Story released: 1992
- Question and Answer released: 1991
- Works II released: 1991
- Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint released: 1989
- Live In Concert released: 1984
- Rejoicing released: 1984
- Works released: 1983
- As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls released: 1981
- 80/81 released: 1980
- New Chautauqua released: 1979
- Watercolors released: 1977
- Bright Size Life released: 1976
- Live in Warsaw released:
- Summertime released:
- One Quiet Night released:
Upojenie
Released 2008- Cichy zapada zmrok (Here Comes the Silent Dusk)
- Mania mienia (So May It Secretly Begin)
- Biel (Whiteness)
- Przypływ, odpływ, oddech czasu... (Tell Her You Saw Me)
- Are You Going With Me?
- Czarne słowa (Black Words)
- Lulajże Jezuniu (Polish Christmas Carol)
- Upojenie (Ecstasy)
- Zupelnie inna ja (Always and Forever)
- Piosenka dla Stasia (A Song for Stas)
- Letter From Home
- Me jedyne niebo (Another Life)
- By on był tu (Farmer's Trust)
- Polskie drogi (Polish Paths)
- Tam, gdzie nie sięga wzrok (Follow Me)
- Na całej połaci śnieg (The Snow Falls All Over the Place)
- Szepty i łzy (Whispers and Tears)
Passaggio per il paradiso
Released 1997- Theme From "Passaggio 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 Eye
- 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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America
by: Pat MethenyThis Is Not America - The Song
Words and music by David Bowie and Pat Metheny.
This is not America, sha la la la la
A little piece of you
The little peace in me
Will die [This is not a miracle]
For this is not America
Blossom fails to bloom
This season
Promise not to stare
Too long [This is not America]
For this is not the miracle
There was a time
A storm that blew so pure
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have
The faintest idea
[For this is not America, sha la la la la, sha la la la la, sha la la la la
This is not america, no, this is not, sha la la la la]
Snowman melting
From the inside
Falcon spirals
To the ground [This could be the biggest sky]
So bloody red
Tomorrow's clouds
A little piece of you
The little piece in me
Will die [This could be a miracle]
For this is not America
There was a time
A wind that blew so young
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have the faintest idea
[For this is not America, sha la la la la, sha la la la la, sha la la la la
This is not america, no, this is not, sha la la la
This is not america, no, this is not