The Pat Metheny Group's new album, "The Way Up," is a classic example of why a lot of jazz purists don't really go for this undeniably skilled guitarist. It has plenty of bracing jazz on it, but there ...

Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny stops by NPR's Washington studios for an hour of live music and talks with John Ydstie and callers about his approach to songwriting. Metheny's new album refers to his past ...

ASPEN – For a very short period of time, Pat Metheny could have been called conservative and retrograde in his musical tastes. As a teenager in the mid-’60s, when rock ‘n’ roll was having its biggest ...

Pat Metheny performs during the Jazz Foundation of America. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/ Courtesy of Getty Images for Jazz Foundation Of America) Two hours of musical mastery from one of jazz’s most ...

Are you seated? For the first time in recent memory, Pat Metheny's new album is not an epic journey through musical style. One Quiet Night gives us a rare insight into the simple explorations of the ...

Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with ...

Pat Metheny is a talker. True, his fame is tied up in his identity as a guitarist, but trust me when I say that even the slightest mental nudge will set Metheny down a conversational path, ...

That liquid, crystalline tone; those airborne, searching melodies. They've been part of the jazz conversation for decades — ever since Pat Metheny's debut appeared back in 1976, when he was just ...

NEW YORK — Pat Metheny, the jazz guitarist, has lately spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about robots. Actually, that’s putting it mildly: He has been downright obsessed with robots, and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present Pat Metheny -- The Orchestrion Tour on Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North ...

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 ...