2001 (reissued 2008) Some artists are revolutionary, others are evolutionary. Some manage to be both, and guitarist Pat Metheny is one of a small group of artists who, always moving forward, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is it possible to love, or even enjoy, every one of the 40-something recordings released by guitarist Pat Metheny? Many of the titles released by his Pat Metheny Group are too genteel for me, but they ...

At the Lobero on Wednesday, guitarist Pat Metheny showed why he’s become one of the most respected and influential musicians in contemporary jazz. While never leaving his core strength as a player ...

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 ...

Lyle Mays, the pianist and composer from Wausaukee who co-founded the innovative jazz fusion band the Pat Metheny Group, has died, according to an announcement posted on his official Facebook page ...