In the five years since the last Pat Metheny Group (PMG) release, 1997's "Imaginary Day," the band's namesake guitarist has released two trio discs, a film score, a duo project, and an all-star… By ...

One of most exciting aspects of live performance is the opportunity to see how a group translates music from the studio to the concert stage. With production values that more closely resemble those of ...

Guitarist Pat Metheny has been at the top of his craft for 40 years — since he first hit the Jazz chart Top 10 with his 1979 album “New Chautauqua.” Since then, he’s had more than two dozen more ...

Intense and often aggressive, Pat Metheny's 65-minute piece "The Way Up" was played in its entirety to open his 2¾-hour show at Universal. It is as challenging a composition as Metheny and his partner ...

Lyle Mays, a jazz keyboardist whose work, chiefly with the Pat Metheny Group, won nearly a dozen Grammy Awards, died Feb. 10 in Los Angeles. He was 66. The death, of unspecified causes, was announced ...

Metheny opened with a solo on his 42-string Pikasso guitar, a Hydra-headed invention with a very delicate harp-like upper register. Watching him grapple in the gloom made for a dramatic start, but the ...

Pat Metheny's Unity Band is a wave to his fine album 80/81, which featured the late Michael Brecker and Dewey Redman on saxes. Their roles are merged here on a batch of new Metheny pieces by the ...

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Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays co-wrote most of the group's songs Group is best known for rock-meets-Brazilian-meets-jazz sound The band hasn't worked together in seven years SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The ...

Much like those pointless negative reviews where the writer (read: attacker) has never liked the band in question, I sometimes wonder if maybe it's just not right to go on about my favorite artists.

With much the same sprawling thicket of hair he's had for 30 years, guitarist Pat Metheny sustains a reassuring youthfulness for his legions of fans worldwide. But if Metheny in his improbable 50s ...