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, ...

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 ...

If Pat Metheny never plays another single note, he would have already lived a "bright size life." If there is one thing that Metheny cares for as much as playing and composing, it is education. He was ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, Pat Metheny couldn't find the right guitar strings. He had a specific need - nylon strings for an unconventional tuning on a baritone guitar. Last fall, he found them on Amazon, and they ...

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 ...

Among music composers, there's always been a desire to hear their works performed exactly as conceived. It's an impulse that helped popularize the player piano 100 years ago, synthesizers in the 1960s ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Had it not been for four Englishmen, Pat Metheny might have gone into the ...