Pat Metheny

After 2023's Dream Box, Pat Metheny embarked on a long solo tour, during which he experimented with a new guitar built for him by luthier Linda Manzer. The custom baritone utilized nylon strings, sourced from an Argentinian company after an exhaustive search, to get the tone Metheny desired for his idiosyncratic tuning. The striking difference in sound sparked an epiphany that he says, "instantly peeled open a whole new range of possibilities …. this guitar allows me to go deep … to a place that I maybe have never quite gotten to before." Metheny has always been an expressive and emotional player, but an even deeper resonance echoes across the beautifully recorded MoonDial, a collection of originals and carefully chosen covers. The album-defining, title-track opener has his trademark insistent drive and innate melodicism.

"Rejoicing" is an album by the guitarist Pat Metheny that was released in 1984 by ECM.

If you’ve ever desired a Pat Metheny Group greatest hits album, then Travels is for you.

“Guitar wonder Metheny has made an astoundingly tasteful and free flowing record here” the Massachusetts Valley Advocate declared.

There are only a handful of living musicians who can continually reinvent themselves year after year, and even fewer still who can claim to have maintained equal degrees of innovation and excellence across a career spanning decades.

"First Circle" was Pat Metheny's last recording for ECM, before signing with Geffen Records.

Once a child prodigy, and then a flashy youth, guitarist Pat Metheny has now become a jazz elder. As such he's made the selfless decision to return the favor of the older players who mentored him, by working with a cadre of young players, showing them the ropes of touring, and allowing them, as he puts it in the liner notes of Side-Eye, the chance to develop through the "prism" of his experience.

2012 Grammy Award Winner: Best Jazz Instrumental Album: For the first time since his 1980 release 80/81, guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with a band that features tenor saxophone. Unity Band, due from Nonesuch on June 12, 2012, introduces a new Metheny ensemble with Chris Potter on sax and bass clarinet, longtime collaborator Antonio Sanchez on drums, and the up-and-coming Ben Williams on bass. The album features nine new Metheny compositions.

Metheny alone and, mostly, acoustic, playing folk-flavoured compositions. Pat viewed this as “an autobiographical album. It’s got a lot to do with the American Midwest. It’s very open and spacious.”

Nonesuch Records and Tzadik simultaneously release guitarist Pat Metheny's recording of "John Zorn s Tap: The Book of Angels, Vol. 20" from Zorn's Masada Book Two. This album is the first collaboration between the two artists, considered among their generation s most innovative musicians. Besides his frequent collaborator, drummer Antonio Sanchez, Metheny plays all other instruments guitars, sitar, tiples, bass, keyboards, orchestrionics, electronics, bandoneón, percussion, flugelhorn, and more himself.