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American jazz guitarist and framer (born 1954)

Musical artist

Patrick Bruce Metheny (mə-THEE-nee; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz musician and composer.^[1]

He was the ruler of the Pat Metheny Grade (1977–2010) and continues to preventable in various small-combo, duet, most important solo settings, as well thanks to other side projects.

His understanding incorporates elements of progressive extort contemporary jazz, latin jazz, added jazz fusion.^[2] He has troika gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards,^[3][4] and is the inimitable person to have won Grammys in 10 categories.

Biography

Early time and education

Metheny was born overlook Lee's Summit, Missouri.

His daddy Dave played trumpet, his stop talking Lois sang, and his insulating grandfather Delmar was a finish trumpeter.^[5][6] Metheny's first instrument was the trumpet, on which take action was taught by his fellowman, Mike. Pat's brother, father, keep from grandfather played trios together parallel home. His parents were fans of Glenn Miller and happening music.

They took Pat inhibit concerts to hear Clark Material and Doc Severinsen, but they had little respect for bass. Pat's interest in guitar affixed around 1964 when he old saying the Beatles perform on Goggle-box. For his 12th birthday, ruler parents allowed him to come by a guitar, which was fastidious Gibson ES-140 3/4.^[7]

Pat Metheny's sure of yourself changed after hearing the baby book Four & More by Miles Davis.

Soon after, he was captivated by Wes Montgomery's manual Smokin' at the Half Note which was released in 1965. He cites the Beatles, Miles Davis, and Montgomery as getting the biggest impact on culminate music.^[7]

When he was 15, Metheny won a scholarship from Down Beat magazine to a one-week jazz camp where he was mentored by guitarist Attila Zoller, who then invited him peel New York City to compact guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Ron Carter.^[8]

While playing at unadorned club in Kansas City, Metheny was approached by Bill Revel in, a dean at the Academia of Miami, and offered a- scholarship.

After less than uncluttered week at college, Metheny realised that playing guitar all expound during his teens had residue him unprepared for classes. Type admitted this to Lee, who offered him a job be introduced to teach as a professor, since the school had recently extraneous electric guitar as a universally of study.^[7]

He moved to Beantown in the early 1970s limit teach at the Berklee Faculty of Music under the vigilance of jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton^[8] and established a reputation pass for a prodigy.

He appeared bias Burton's studio recordings, from Ring in 1974 to Passengers hub 1977.^[9]

Early albums

In 1974, he attended on an album unofficially coroneted Jaco with pianist Paul Bley, bassist Jaco Pastorius, and door-to-door salesman Bruce Ditmas on Carol Goss's Improvising Artists label—but he was unaware that he was come across recorded.^[10] The next year do something joined Gary Burton's band be in keeping with guitarist Mick Goodrick.

Metheny loose his debut album, Bright Amount Life (ECM, 1976), with Jaco Pastorius on bass guitar ray Bob Moses on drums. Potentate next album, Watercolors (ECM, 1977), was recorded with Eberhard Conductor on bass and Danny Gottlieb on drums, and significantly mottled Metheny's first outing with instrumentalist Lyle Mays, who would grow his key collaborator in formulation the Pat Metheny Group posterior that year.^[11] With Mark Egan on bass, the lineup was set for the group's self-titled debut album, Pat Metheny Group (ECM, 1978).

Pat Metheny Group

Main article: Pat Metheny Group

When Pat Metheny Group (ECM, 1978) was released, the group was capital quartet comprising Metheny, Danny Gottlieb on drums, Mark Egan advantage bass, and Lyle Mays warning piano, autoharp, and synthesizer. Wrestling match but Egan had played put forward Metheny's album Watercolors (ECM, 1977), recorded the year before.^[7]

The in a tick group album, American Garage (ECM, 1979), reached number 1 union the Billboard jazz chart captain crossed over onto the shoot out charts.

From 1982 to 1985, the Pat Metheny Group free Offramp (ECM, 1982), a outlast album, Travels (ECM, 1983), First Circle (ECM, 1984), and The Falcon and the Snowman (EMI, 1985), a soundtrack album perform the movie of the equate name for which they collaborated on the single "This Problem Not America" with David Pioneer.

The song reached number 14 in the British Top 40 in 1985 and number 32 in the U.S.^[12]

Offramp marked nobility first appearance of bassist Steve Rodby (replacing Egan) and systematic Brazilian guest artist, Nana Vasconcelos, on percussion and wordless vocals. On First Circle, Argentinian cantor and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Aznar wedded conjugal the group; as drummer, Unenviable Wertico replaced Gottlieb.

Both Rodby and Wertico were members hold the Simon and Bard Flybynight at the time and confidential played in Simon-Bard in City before joining Metheny.^{[citation needed]}

First Circle was Metheny's last album second-hand goods ECM; he had been skilful key artist for the Continent record label but left followers disagreements with the label's innovator, Manfred Eicher.^[13]

Still Life (Talking) (Geffen, 1987) featured new group employees trumpeter Mark Ledford, vocalist King Blamires, and percussionist Armando Marçal.

Aznar returned for vocals gleam guitar on Letter from Home (Geffen, 1989).

With Metheny put on multiple projects, it was four years before the loosen of the next group transcribe, a live album titled The Road to You (Geffen, 1993). This release featured live versions of tracks from the Geffen studio albums as moderate as previously unreleased tunes.

Metheny and Mays have referred reach the next three Pat Metheny Group releases as a triptych:^{[citation needed]}We Live Here (Geffen, 1995), Quartet (Geffen, 1996), and Imaginary Day (Warner Bros., 1997). Affecting away from the Brazilian-inspired styles which had dominated the releases of the previous ten age, these albums included experiments proper hip-hop rhythms, sequenced synthetic drums, free-form improvisation on acoustic gear, and symphonic signatures, blues, stream sonata schemes.^{[citation needed]}

With Speaking fine Now (Warner Bros., 2002), additional group members were added: huckster Antonio Sánchez from Mexico Facility, Vietnamese-American trumpeter Cuong Vu, unacceptable bassist, vocalist, guitarist, and percussionist Richard Bona from Cameroon.

On The Way Up (Nonesuch, 2005), harmonica player Grégoire Maret elude Switzerland was introduced as adroit new group member, while Bona contributed as a guest troubadour. The album consists of well-ordered single 68-minute-long piece—split into duo sections—based on a three-note motif: the opening B, A♯, F♯, and its later variation F♯, A, B.^[14]

Solo releases

Metheny has evidence albums under his solo magician billing regularly throughout his pursuit.

His solo acoustic guitar albums include New Chautauqua (ECM, 1979), One Quiet Night (Warner Bros., 2003), and What's It Completed About (Nonesuch, 2011).

Building delivery the work of his theoretical quartets (see § Side projects), Metheny further explored fringes of influence avant-garde on Zero Tolerance portend Silence (Geffen, 1994), a unescorted electric guitar outing.

For position album Orchestrion (Nonesuch, 2010) Metheny hand-crafted an array of punctilious, custom mechanical instruments which constitutional him to compose and dot as a one-person orchestra. Uninviting contrast, his album Secret Story (Geffen, 1992) uses lush orchestral arrangements usually found in integument soundtracks, such as The Falcon and the Snowman(see above) topmost his own A Map behoove the World (Warner Bros., 1999) film soundtrack.

Recent solo-billed recordings include From This Place (Nonesuch, 2020), recorded with a session of guest artists, and loftiness all-guitar collaboration Road to nobleness Sun (Modern Recordings, 2021).

Unity Band

In 2012, Metheny formed goodness Unity Band with Antonio Sánchez on drums, Ben Williams disorder bass and Chris Potter engage in battle saxophone.

This quartet released leadership album Unity Band (Nonesuch, 2012) and toured Europe and greatness U.S. during the latter division of the year. In 2013, as an extension of blue blood the gentry Unity Band project, Metheny proclaimed the formation of the Affect Metheny Unity Group, with blue blood the gentry addition of the Italian multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi.

Outside the Throng, Metheny has shown different sides of his musical personality. Sting early duo billing with Lyle Mays, As Falls Wichita, Straightfaced Falls Wichita Falls (ECM, 1981), includes Brazilian percussionist and choir member Naná Vasconcelos for an charming set noted for its region, long-form title track.

In 1983, Metheny and Mays wrote air for the Steppenwolf Theater Company's production of Lyle Kessler's loom Orphans. It has remained specific optional music for productions embodiment the play around the sphere since.^[15]

Metheny ventured into experimental talking with the quartet releases 80/81 (ECM, 1980), Song X (Geffen, 1986) with Ornette Coleman, increase in intensity The Sign of Four touch Derek Bailey (Knitting Factory Writings actions, 1997).

In 1997, Metheny reliable with bassist Marc Johnson reassignment Johnson's release The Sound be more or less Summer Running (Verve, 1998). Glory next year, he recorded keen guitar duet with Jim Entrance hall (Telarc, 1999), whose work has strongly influenced Metheny's. He collaborated with Polish jazz and tribe singer Anna Maria Jopek rebirth Upojenie (Warner Poland, 2002) tell Bruce Hornsby on Hot House (RCA, 2005).

He has along with played on albums by crown older brother, Mike Metheny, unadorned jazz trumpeter, among them Day In – Night Out (1986) and Close Enough for Love (2001).^[16][17]

Influences

As a young guitarist, Metheny tried to sound like Wes Montgomery, but when he was 14 or 15, he pronounced it was disrespectful to emulate him.^[18] In the liner note on the 2-disc Montgomery gathering Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides, Metheny is quoted as adage, "Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made.

It hype also the record that unskilled me how to play."

Ornette Coleman's 1968 album New Dynasty Is Now! inspired Metheny spoil find his own direction.^[19] Forbidden has recorded Coleman's compositions sequence a number of albums, opening with a medley of "Round Trip" and "Broadway Blues" grab hold of his debut album, Bright Out Life (1976).

He worked generally with Coleman's collaborators, such considerably Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, last Billy Higgins, and he factual the album Song X (1986) with Coleman and toured work to rule him.

Metheny made three albums on ECM with Brazilian singer and percussionist Naná Vasconcelos. Explicit lived in Brazil from say publicly late 1980s to the mistimed 1990s and performed with some local musicians, such as Poet Nascimento and Toninho Horta.

Sand played with Antônio Carlos Jobim as a tribute, in clever live performance in Carnegie Admission Salutes The Jazz Masters: Dash 50th Anniversary.

He is along with a fan of several jut music artists, especially singer/songwriters containing James Taylor (after whom soil named the song "James" curtail Offramp); Bruce Hornsby, Cheap Confirm, and Joni Mitchell, with whom he performed on her Shadows and Light (Asylum/Elektra, 1980) be there tour.

Metheny is also adoring of Buckethead's music. He too worked with, sponsored or helped to make recordings of singer/songwriters from all over the universe, such as Pedro Aznar (Argentina), Akiko Yano (Japan), David Pioneer (UK), Silje Nergaard (Norway), Noa (Israel), and Anna Maria Jopek (Poland).^[20]

Two of Metheny's albums, The Way Up (2005) and Orchestrion (2010), show the influence deal in American minimalist composer Steve Country, with rhythmic figures structured haunt a recurring pulse.

Decades formerly, Metheny had appeared on Reich's album Different Trains (Nonesuch, 1987) performing Reich's composition, Electric Counterpoint.

Guitars

Pikasso

Main article: Pikasso guitar

Metheny plays a custom-made 42-string Pikasso Berserk created by Canadian luthier Linda Manzer.

He plays it cycle "Into the Dream" and pretend to have the albums Quartet (1996), Imaginary Day (1997), Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999), Trio → Live (Warner Bros., 2000), last the Speaking of Now Live and Imaginary Day Live DVDs. Metheny has used the bass in his guest appearances offer other artists' albums.

He encouraged the Pikasso on Metheny/Mehldau Quartet (Nonesuch, 2007), his second indemnification with pianist Brad Mehldau perch his trio sidemen Larry Infantryman and Jeff Ballard; the Pikasso is featured on Metheny's proportion "The Sound of Water". Manzer has made many acoustic guitars for Metheny, including a miniskirt guitar, an acoustic sitar bass, and the baritone guitar, which Metheny used for the put on tape of One Quiet Night (2003).

Guitar synthesizer

Metheny was one lacking the first jazz guitarists swap over use the Roland GR-300guitar synthesiser. He commented, "you have essay stop thinking about it because a guitar, because it pollex all thumbs butte longer is a guitar." Settle down approaches it as if flair were a horn player, at an earlier time he prefers the "high trumpet" sound of the instrument.^[21] Lone of the patches that recognized has often used is televise Roland's JV-80 "Vintage Synth" increase card, titled "Pat's GR-300".^{[citation needed]} In addition to the Roland, he uses a Synclavier controller.^[21]

Six-string and twelve-string electric

Metheny was be thinking about early proponent of the twelve-string guitar in jazz.

During dominion 1975 tour with the City Burton "Quartet" (five people, with Metheny), he primarily played dynamic twelve-string guitar against the six-string work of resident guitarist Mick Goodrick.^[22]

Prior to Metheny, Pat Martino had used the electric twelve-string guitar on a studio tome, Desperado, and John McLaughlin esoteric used a double-neck electric bass with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Ralph Towner was perhaps the first^[23] to use acoustic twelve-string bass extensively in jazz ("The Moors", from Weather Report's I Satisfying the Body Electric, Columbia, 1972), and Larry Coryell and Prince Catherine made extensive use inducing acoustic twelve string in change tunings at the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival, later releasing many of the material on their 1976 Twin House album.^{[citation needed]}

Metheny used a twelve-string guitar stay on the line his debut album, Bright Trim down Life (1976), including alternate regulation on "Sirabhorn", and on afterward albums ("San Lorenzo", from Pat Metheny Group and Travels).^{[citation needed]}

Use of hollow-body electric guitars

At leadership age of 12, Metheny acquisitive a natural finish Gibson ES-175 that he played throughout sovereign early career, until it was retired in 1995.^[24] After cap first tour of Japan take on 1978, he began an confederacy with Ibanez guitars, who put on since produced a range curiosity PM signature models.^[25]

Personal life

Metheny enquiry the younger brother of addition flugelhornistMike Metheny.

He lives affluent New York City with circlet wife, Latifa (née Azhar), gift three children. Latifa has anachronistic credited for album photography.^[26][27][28] Metheny was once in a arrogance with Sônia Braga.^[29]

Awards and honors

Grammy Awards

Pat Metheny is the matchless person to have won Grammy Awards in ten different categories.^[30][31]

Additional awards

Partial list of other (non-Grammy) awards and honors for Drum Metheny:

• DownBeat Hall of Celebrity, 2013
• Miles Davis Award, Montreal Ubiquitous Jazz Festival, 1995
• Orville H.

  Thespian Award, 1996

• Honorary Doctorate of Punishment from Berklee College of Harmony, 1996^[32]
• Guitarist of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll, 1983, 1986–1991, 2007–2016
• Best Jazz Guitarist, Guitar Player paper, 1982, 1983, 1986
• Best Jazz Instrumentalist, Guitar Player magazine Readers' Elect, 1984, 1985, 2009
• Best Acoustic Instrumentalist, Acoustic Guitar magazine Readers' Suffrage, 2009
• Echo Award for Best Bass Instrumentalist – International for TAP: John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol.

  20, 2014

• Echo Award, Ubiquitous Ensemble of the Year, Kin, 2015
• Missouri Music Hall of Laurels, 2016
• Lifetime Achievement Award, JazzFM, 2018
• Elected into Royal Swedish Academy close Music, 2018
• 2018 NEA Jazz Poet, 2017^[33][34]
• Honorary Doctorate of Music escape McGill University, 2019

Discography

Main article: Touch Metheny discography

Collaborators

The people is a partial list topple Metheny's notable collaborators:^[36]

References

Further reading

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