The title of Pat Metheny’s latest album, Dream Box, is taken in part from jazz slang for a hollow-body guitar. But it’s the Missouri natives’ imaginative use of such instruments
Add Pat Metheny’s Dream Box to its predecessors, 2003’s One Quiet Night and What It’s All About from eight years later, as distinguished entries in the increasingly lengthy discography of the guitarist/composer. By the very dint of
2021 was a very creative year as artists, frustrated by the lack of touring due to the pandemic, began to use their downtime productively, learning how to layer in parts
The Gary Burton Quartet: Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 3/3/77 Pat Metheny Group: R.W. Hunt Mill and Mining Company, 4/13/78 Even for fans who’ve followed Pat Metheny for decades, it’s difficult to
Pat Metheny, by far, is one of the most successful jazz musicians in the world. The guitarist has won 20 Grammy Awards in ten different categories since his 1976 debut
In his exploration of the limits of solo production, Pat Metheny’s last album, Orchestrion, succeeded at bringing together his own musical thoughts and combining them with technology to create an orchestra driven off of a singular input. His latest project, What’s It All About, is a collection of acoustic covers of songs that have meant something to him, particularly in the early time period of his life where music was playing a more profound role.
Prior to heading out on a massive summer tour, venerable road warriors the Dave Matthews Band announced that they’d be taking all of 2011 off, after twenty straight years of
To give you an idea of the magnitude of Orchestrion and how Pat Metheny’s system works, imagine a controlled orchestra that at times can respond only to the input of one single instrument, in this case the guitar. Each instrument is programmed and synchronized to react to what is played on Metheny’s guitar or previously composed and similarly he has the ability to control which instruments are playing at a given time. Last Tuesday was no ordinary show when Pat Metheny brought the tour through the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA to an audience that was curious to see the virtuoso in a different element.
Singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King share a unique bond, as King made her first public performance with Taylor some 40 years ago at LA’s famed venue the Troubadour. The
Gary Burton and Pat Metheny have reunited occasionally in interim since working together regularly in the 70's, but Quartet Live is their first bonafide collaboration since that time. Their commitment, as well as that of their comrades, is wholly evident on Quartet Live.
