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Pat Metheny
PAT METHENY was born in Lee's Summit, MO 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 the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable on-the bandstand experience at an unusually young age. Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility -a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues. With the release of his first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional "jazz guitar" sound for a new generation of players. Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to redefine the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. Metheny's versatility is nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie.

Songs

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This Is Not America (2002 Remaster)
David Bowie
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Last Train Home
Pat Metheny Group
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To the End of the World
Pat Metheny Group
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Minuano (Six Eight)
Pat Metheny Group
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Slip Away
Pat Metheny Group

Albums

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The Lore

2025
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Out and Out Jazz

2022
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Live Chicago '87

2021
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MoonDial

2024
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Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)

2021
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From This Place

2020
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Dream Box

2023
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Road to the Sun

2021
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The Elements: Water (feat. Cecil McBee)

2022
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Stumptown '77

2021

Singles & EPs

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Heaven's Gift (Fusion - Jazz Secrets)

Single • 2025
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MoonDial

Single • 2024
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Ebb and Flow (from The Elements - Water) (feat. Cecil McBee)

Single • 2022
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We Can’t See It, But It’s There

Single • 2024
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Ole & Gard

Single • 2023
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Reflecting Pool (from The Elements - Water) (feat. Cecil McBee)

Single • 2022
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Here, There and Everywhere

Single • 2024
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From The Mountains

Single • 2023
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You’re Everything

Single • 2024
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Water Theme (Reprise) (from The Elements - Water) (feat. Cecil McBee)

Single • 2022

Videos

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Pat Metheny Film Scores: Fandango

Pat Metheny • 509K views
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Pat Metheny - The Girl From Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim)

Pat Metheny • 1.4M views
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Pat Metheny: Rainy Days & Mondays (The Carpenters)

Pat Metheny • 226K views
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We Can’t See It, But It’s There

Pat Metheny • 84K views
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Pat Metheny "From This Place" (Official Video)

Pat Metheny • 394K views

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Jazz Fusion

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Contemporary Classical Guitar

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Cozy Gaming

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'10s Jazz

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Essential Jazz

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Jazz Guitar

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Artist-made playlists

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Pat Metheny - From This Place (2020)

Playlist • Pat Metheny • 67K views
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Pat Metheny - Side-Eye - NYC (V1- IV)

Playlist • Pat Metheny • 27K views
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Pat Metheny Group

Playlist • Pat Metheny • 40K views
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Pat Metheny - What's It All About (2011)

Playlist • Pat Metheny • 35K views
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Pat Metheny - MoonDial (2024)

Playlist • Pat Metheny • 33K views

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