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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 plays the historic Spreckels Theater in downtown San Diego on Wednesday, April 21st. MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh, and you're listening to These Days on KPBS. Jazz ...

When Pat Metheny released his first album 40 years ago, he was a frizzy-haired wunderkind from the Midwest, perfectly poised to reach a vast audience looking for the next visionary guitarist. An ...

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 ...

Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of our time, has for five decades toured with his many creative musical projects, most prominently the Pat Metheny ...

Its title to the contrary, the music on guitar great Pat Metheny’s new album, “Dream Box,” did not come to him in a dream. But they did come out of the blue — in a manner — much to the surprise and ...

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 ...