"Mike Walker (jazz guitarist) Mike Walker (born 12 July 1962) is a British jazz guitarist. Walker was influenced by his father's piano playing, his mother's singing, and his brother's guitar playing. He went on to discover a passion for jazz guitarists Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Larry Coryell, and Tal Farlow. He joined the jazz fusion band River People with Paul Allen, Tim Franks, and Paul Kilvington in Manchester. In the 1980s, he became a member of a quartet led by vibraphonist Alan Butler and worked with Michael Gibbs and Kenny Wheeler. He worked with Nikki and"
"Pat Metheny Patrick Bruce Metheny ( ; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards and is the only person to win Grammys in 10 categories. He is the brother of jazz flugelhornist Mike Metheny. Metheny was born in Lee's Summit, Missouri. His father Dave played trumpet, his mother Lois sang, and his"
"() Pat Metheny Patrick Bruce Metheny ( ; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards and is the only person to win Grammys in 10 categories. He is the brother of jazz flugelhornist Mike Metheny. Metheny was born in Lee's Summit, Missouri. His father Dave played trumpet, his mother Lois sang, and"
"Pat Metheny Group The Pat Metheny Group is an American jazz fusion group founded in 1977 in Missouri. The core members of the group are guitarist, composer and bandleader Pat Metheny; and keyboardist and composer Lyle Mays, who was in the group at its inception. Other long-standing members include bassist and producer Steve Rodby, who joined in 1981, and Paul Wertico, who was the group's drummer for 18 years from 1983 to 2001. Founder Pat Metheny first emerged on the jazz scene in the mid-1970s with a pair of solo albums. First was ""Bright Size Life,"" released in 1976, a"
"The Unity Sessions The Unity Sessions is a live album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, Chris Potter on saxophone and bass clarinet, Ben Williams on bass, Giulio Carmassi on keys, and Antonio Sánchez on drums. It was recorded live in a black box theatre without an audience except for sound, lighting, and camera crew. The recording was released on DVD and Blu-Ray disc in 2015, then as a double CD in 2016. The album received generally favourable reviews with Metacritic giving it a score of 80% from 4 reviews. The AllMusic review by Matt Collar states ""Ultimately, while Metheny"
"testifies to how attuned constant gigging has made them"". The Unity Sessions The Unity Sessions is a live album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, Chris Potter on saxophone and bass clarinet, Ben Williams on bass, Giulio Carmassi on keys, and Antonio Sánchez on drums. It was recorded live in a black box theatre without an audience except for sound, lighting, and camera crew. The recording was released on DVD and Blu-Ray disc in 2015, then as a double CD in 2016. The album received generally favourable reviews with Metacritic giving it a score of 80% from 4 reviews. The"
"is planned that all of Metheny's Geffen and Warner Bros. Records albums are to be rereleased on the label. The Pat Metheny Group played at the Blue Note Tokyo in January 2009 in its core quartet of Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby and Antonio Sanchez. This quartet version of the group later toured the jazz festivals of Europe in the summer of 2010 as part of the ""Songbook Tour"". These concerts featured music from all eras of the group but no new material. Pat Metheny Group The Pat Metheny Group is an American jazz fusion group founded in 1977 in Missouri."
"a completely new approach to combine elements of both rock and jazz music while resulting in a very listenable and captivating final product."" That same year he released ""Jazz Impressions 1"" with pianist Silvano Monasterios and bassist Mark Egan. ""Chicago Jazz"" wrote: ""From the first note of ""Jazz Impressions 1"", you know you're in for something interesting and different. What these three do with that format, however, is nothing short of breathtaking."" As leader Paul Wertico Paul Wertico (born January 5, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American drummer. He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group"
"Froom. While a member of the Pat Metheny Group he won two Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Jazz Album: ""Speaking of Now"" and ""The Way Up"". He worked with Metheny as both trumpeter and vocalist. Vu's trio consists of bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Ted Poor. Cuong Vu Cuong Vu (born 19 September 1969) is a jazz trumpeter from Vietnam who was a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Born in Saigon on September 19, 1969, Vu immigrated to Seattle with his family when he was six. At 11 he began to play the trumpet. He received a scholarship from"
"he wanted to make. At ""All About Jazz"", one critic called it ""the album no one seems to understand."" The cover of ""Zero Tolerance for Silence"" carried an endorsement by Thurston Moore, guitarist for Sonic Youth, who called the album ""an incendiary work by an unpredictable master."" Critics have been less kind. Ben Watson of the music magazine ""The Wire"" called it ""rubbish,"" and Griggs gave it 1.5 out of a possible 5 stars. Zero Tolerance for Silence Zero Tolerance for Silence is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny that was released by Geffen Records label in"
"Mays and Pat Metheny for their production of Lyle Kessler's play ""Orphans"". He has composed classical music such as ""Twelve Days in the Shadow of a Miracle"", a piece for harp, flute, viola, and synthesizer (recorded in 1996 by the Debussy Trio). Mays plays a Steinway Grand Piano with built-in MIDI. He has used an Oberheim 8 Voice Synth, a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Kurzweil K250, Korg DW-8000, Korg Triton keyboards, and many more. Lyle Mays Lyle David Mays (born November 27, 1953) is an American jazz pianist and composer best known as a member of the Pat Metheny Group."
"and on shifting their solos from tonal to atonal and back again. But how many of them can write a ballad that someone might want to hum to a lover?"" Rob Mallows of London Jazz News wrote, ""The album gives the listener a full understanding of what Metheny, now nearly sixty, is all about and where he feels comfortable in his role as grand master of contemporary jazz."" Kin (Pat Metheny album) Kin (stylized as KIN (←→)) is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and his Unity Group, an expanded version of 2012's Unity Band, with multi-instrumentalist"
"recognition. He had a sweet sound, a gift for melody and three records under his name, two of them on a major label. Then he stopped."" Metheny himself jokes that his career as a journalist is ""an occupation that pays less than being a jazz musician"". He continues to perform, primarily in Kansas and Missouri, and with a particular emphasis on the electronic valve instrument (EVI), a trumpet synthesizer that he has featured in his recordings and which was given to him by his brother Pat as a present. In 2007, Mike and Pat set up the Metheny Music Foundation"
"leaving North Texas, Mays toured with Woody Herman's group for approximately eight months. In 1974, he met Pat Metheny with whom he later founded the Pat Metheny Group. Mays has won eleven Grammy Awards with the Pat Metheny Group and has been nominated for four others for his own work. In an interview with ""JAZZIZ"" magazine in 2016, Mays revealed his current career as a software manager. In the Pat Metheny Group, Mays provides arrangements, orchestration, and the harmonic and metric backbone of the group's musical signature. He occasionally performs on electric guitar as well. He played trumpet on the"
"both guitarists' tones might leave you wondering if you've got water in your ear"", but that it ""really is a wonderful album."" The ""All About Jazz"" review said that ""what we hear...is certainly an affinity"", and that the record is ""...worthy of repeated listening"". They praised the composition as well, saying that they ""assume a deceptive melodic simplicity deepened in profundity by unconventional intervals or modulations that proceed unhurriedly as the sound washes over the listener."" Note Album – ""Billboard"" Jim Hall & Pat Metheny Jim Hall & Pat Metheny is an album by jazz guitarists Jim Hall and Pat"
"Mark Egan Mark Egan (born 1951 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American jazz bassist and trumpeter known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group and the Gil Evans Orchestra. He is co-founder of the jazz fusion band, Elements. Mark McDanel Egan was born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1951. Influenced by his father, he studied trumpet at age 10. He played the trumpet throughout high school, and began playing the bass when he was 15. While attending the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, initially as a trumpet student, he studied with jazz educator Jerry Coker. He switched from"
"Paul Wertico Paul Wertico (born January 5, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American drummer. He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to spend more time with his family and to pursue other musical interests. After Pat Metheny heard the Simon and Bard Group with Wertico and bassist Steve Rodby, he invited both to join his band. During his time with Metheny, Wertico played on ten albums and four videos, appeared on television, and toured around the world. He won seven Grammy Awards (for ""Best Jazz Fusion Performance,"" ""Best"
"Kin (Pat Metheny album) Kin (stylized as KIN (←→)) is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and his Unity Group, an expanded version of 2012's Unity Band, with multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi and saxophonist Chris Potter. ""Kin"" was released in February 2014 by Nonesuch Records. It was recorded in June 2013 at MSR Studios in New York. Metheny has said that his idea behind ""Kin"" was to push the quartet-led concept that led to ""Unity Band"" further forward by adding more orchestration to the instrumental core of the band, so that Kin would be ""more like the Technicolor,"
"Mike Metheny Mike Metheny ( ; born August 28, 1949 in Lee's Summit, Missouri) is an American jazz musician and music journalist. He is the brother of the jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. Mike Metheny studied music education at the University of Missouri School of Music and Northeast Missouri State University, then played trumpet in the U.S. Army Field Band, Washington D.C. (1971–74). Following his time in the Army, he became an adjunct lecturer and assistant to the head of the trumpet department at the Berklee College of Music (1976–83). Metheny has released several full-length albums, the first in 1982. He"
"Grammy Awards Offramp (album) Offramp is the third album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1982. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. It contains the popular ballad ""Are You Going with Me?"". ""Offramp"" is the first studio album on which Metheny used a guitar synthesizer, a Roland GR-300 controlled with a Roland G-303 guitar synthesiser controller. The guitar synthesizer became one of Metheny's most frequently used instruments. ""Offramp"" is also the first Group album to feature vocals, which became a fundamental component of the band's sound. When Metheny and Lyle Mays partnered with Brazilian percussionist"
"Zero Tolerance for Silence Zero Tolerance for Silence is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny that was released by Geffen Records label in 1994. The album was recorded in one day and consists of improvised, solo electric guitar. Tim Griggs of AllMusic called it ""semi-organized noise."" Griggs has two theories about the album's origins. The first is that Metheny was upset with Geffen, and as his contract was ending this was his way of expressing his displeasure. In 2008, Metheny said,That rumor was started by a journalist who was seriously ""not"" listening to the album. All it"
"and built by hand over 50 guitar prototypes, including soprano guitar, the first acoustic baritone guitar, the acoustic sitar guitar sitars, and several multinecked harp guitars. She has designed and built over 25 instruments for jazz musician Pat Metheny, including the Pikasso, which has 42 strings and four necks. He has played the Pikasso on many albums including ""Imaginary Day"" , ""What's It All About"", and ""Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)"". He played her baritone guitar on the album ""One Quiet Night"". Plus she built and co-designed with Metheny a limited edition of 30 handmade Metheny-Manzer Signature models to"
"albums released by Geffen Records and Warner Bros. Records, spanning 1987 to 2002, excepting the 1996 album ""Quartet"". Though a few of the Group's songs have been collected on ""Selected Recordings"", a compilation of Metheny's more popular tunes, this is the first compilation album dedicated entirely to Pat Metheny Group itself. Essential Collection Last Train Home Essential Collection Last Train Home is the first greatest hits album by American jazz fusion band Pat Metheny Group. It was released on March 4, 2015, by Nonesuch Records, and released in Japan. The album serves as an introduction to the band after the"
"Pat Metheny's works that Curnow has been so heavily involved in re-arranging for jazz orchestra. The music has been highly successful in becoming part of the core repertoire for the jazz orchestra and music being played by educational institutions and professional jazz orchestras around the world. All selections arranged and orchestrated by Robert Curnow. Stan Kenton Plays Chicago Stan Kenton Plays Chicago is a studio album by American jazz musician Stan Kenton and his orchestra, released on August 17, 1974, by Creative World Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in Chicago on June 4, 5, 6, 1974. The"
"Jim Hall & Pat Metheny Jim Hall & Pat Metheny is an album by jazz guitarists Jim Hall and Pat Metheny that was released by Telarc on April 27, 1999. The album contains eleven studio recording tracks and six live tracks. Rick Anderson, writing for AllMusic, said that Hall and Metheny ""...are such a natural fit that it's amazing no one's thought of getting them together for a duo album before."" He said the ""...interplay is nothing short of astounding, and the five improvisational pieces...sometimes sound as organized as the standards."" He said ""...the complete lack of high frequencies in"
"Essential Collection Last Train Home Essential Collection Last Train Home is the first greatest hits album by American jazz fusion band Pat Metheny Group. It was released on March 4, 2015, by Nonesuch Records, and released in Japan. The album serves as an introduction to the band after the use of their 1987 song ""Last Train Home"" as the ending theme music of the anime adaptation of ""JoJo's Bizarre Adventure"", during the second half of the show's """" arc. As such, the album artwork features stills from that arc of the anime. ""Last Train Home"" contains selections from the band's"
"which led to him touring with the orchestra. Later in 1997, Perez invited Sánchez to be a part of his acoustic trio which resulted in extensive touring, and the recording of the Grammy Award-nominated album ""Motherland"". The tour resulted in him being heard by legendary guitarist Pat Metheny who invited Sánchez to join the Pat Metheny Group as its drummer after a series of auditions. The group recorded two albums with Sánchez. The first one, ""Speaking of Now"", won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2003. A DVD, under the same name, documenting the tour has been"
"of music. During recording, the trio ""spent just a couple of days together in the studio, just for a few hours a day, just playing"", according to Metheny. They did not even listen back to anything until a few weeks later. Metheny won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for ""(Go) Get It."" Grammy Awards Trio 99 – 00 Trio 99 → 00 is an album by Pat Metheny recorded with Larry Grenadier on bass and Bill Stewart on drums and released in 2000. (The album title is often listed as ""Trio 99 > 00"" or ""Trio"
"of this new arsenal of MIDI technology on the world stage through extensive touring and big-label recordings were guitarist Pat Metheny playing the guitar synthesizer and saxophonist Michael Brecker playing the wind controller, each leading their own bands. The most widely played purely digital wind controllers include the Yamaha WX series and the Akai EWI series. These instruments are capable of generating a standard MIDI data stream, thereby eliminating the need for dedicated synthesizers and opening up the possibility of controlling any MIDI-compatible synthesizer or other device. These instruments, while shaped something like a clarinet with a saxophone-like key layout,"
"The Orchestrion Project The Orchestrion Project is an album by American guitarist Pat Metheny released as a double CD in early 2013 on the Nonesuch label following the release of a concert video with the same name in 2012. The album was recorded on tour following ""Orchestrion"", Metheny's album from 2010 which used orchestrionic instruments. The album received generally favorable reviews, with Metacritic giving it a score of 83% from 5 reviews. AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, and in its review Thom Jurek said, ""While this album's predecessor evidenced his accomplishment in the instrument's creation and operation, ""The Orchestrion"
"Steve Rodby Steve Rodby (born December 9, 1954 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American jazz bassist and producer known for his time with the Pat Metheny Group. Rodby was born in Joliet, Illinois, into a musical family. His father was a music teacher who bought him an acoustic bass, electric bass, and amp when he was 12. He heard classical music from a young age and was educated in classical until high school when he learned jazz. During high school summers, he went to jazz camps, where he met Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, and Danny Gottlieb, three of the four"
"GuitarBot GuitarBot is a self-playing guitar created by the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) in 2002. The instrument consists of four modular string units, each of which can be controlled with MIDI. GuitarBot was used by guitarist Pat Metheny on his 2009 Orchestrion tour. The GuitarBot modules are built on an aluminum base. Each base serves as a mounting point for the module's string, moving bridge subsystem, and pickwheel subsystem. The modules measure 91 centimeters long by 10 centimeters wide and are mounted vertically on a purpose-built support structure, which also houses the units' electronics. GuitarBot uses a"
"Grammy Awards First Circle (album) First Circle is a Grammy Award–winning jazz album by the Pat Metheny Group. Released in 1984, it is the group's fourth studio release. Metheny is joined by Lyle Mays on keyboards, Steve Rodby on bass, Paul Wertico on drums, and Pedro Aznar on vocals, percussion, and guitar. ""First Circle"" won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. Two personnel changes occurred. Drummer Danny Gottlieb was replaced by Paul Wertico, and the Group was joined by multi-instrumentalist Pedro Aznar, who had already established himself with the band Serú Girán in his native Argentina. On ""First"