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10 Facts About Mike Metheny

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Mike Metheny is an American jazz musician and music journalist.

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Mike Metheny is the older brother of the jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.

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Mike Metheny studied music education at the University of Missouri School of Music and Northeast Missouri State University, then played trumpet in the US Army Field Band, Washington DC.

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Mike Metheny has released twelve full-length albums, the first in 1982.

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Mike Metheny produced two records with major labels, in 1986 and 1987, to mixed reviews.

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Mike Metheny has pursued a career in music journalism since the early 1990s.

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Mike Metheny had a sweet sound, a gift for melody and three records under his name, two of them on a major label.

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Mike Metheny continues to perform, primarily in Kansas and Missouri, and with a particular emphasis on the electronic valve instrument, a trumpet synthesizer that he has featured in his recordings and which was given to him by his brother Pat as a present.

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In 2016, Mike Metheny published the anthology Old Friends Are the Best Friends: the Letters of John McKee and Mike Metheny.

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Mike Metheny is the older brother of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.