Features
Wednesday, July 30 2008
The Innovators
Sometimes changing the course of modern music can be surprisingly easy. Though their names may not be laced in the stars right next to Sinatra and Dylan, these mavericks will always be remembered for breaking boundaries, stretching the definitions of genres, and rewriting what the very notion of a "pop song" is.
Thursday, November 30 2006
Metheny / Mehldau -- On the Record
With the release of their first collaboration, jazz musicians Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau talk to PopMatters.
Reviews
Wednesday, December 26 2012
A Mad Assemblage of Robotic Instruments: 'Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project'
The jazz guitarist, filmed performing with his peculiar and wondrous "Orchestrion", a kind of player piano orchestra of bottles and guitar-bots, and marimbas and more. Shimmering.
Monday, July 16 2012
Pat Metheny: Unity Band
The jazz guitarist touches all his many bases with an all-star band.
Wednesday, July 20 2011
Pat Metheny: What’s It All About
The guitarist plays solo acoustic versions of pop hits from the 1960s.
Wednesday, April 28 2010
Pat Metheny: Orchestrion
A most unusual "solo" record from the jazz guitarist, accompanied by an "orchestra" of percussion and stringed instruments being played mechanically like a player piano.
News
Tuesday, April 20 2010
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny expands his repertoire
MIAMI — Before he became an internationally lauded jazz musician, before he learned to play the guitar, Pat Metheny fell in love with the player…
Wednesday, February 3 2010
One-man band scores one for jazz guitarist Pat Metheny
NEW YORK — For Pat Metheny, music is nothing without a story. It's a lesson he picked up 40 years ago playing with Kansas City…
