26 Facts About Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

Pat Metheny was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and continues to work in various small-combo, duet, and solo settings, as well as other side projects.

Pat Metheny is the younger brother of jazz flugelhornist Mike Metheny.

Pat Metheny's parents were fans of Glenn Miller and swing music.

Pat Metheny cites the Beatles, Miles Davis, and Wes Montgomery as having the biggest impact on his music.

Pat Metheny admitted this to Lee, who offered him a job to teach instead with the rank of Professor, as the school had recently introduced electric guitar as a course of study.

Pat Metheny moved to Boston to teach at the Berklee College of Music with jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton and established a reputation as a prodigy.

Pat Metheny released his debut album, Bright Size Life with Jaco Pastorius on bass guitar and Bob Moses on drums.

From 1982 to 1985, the Pat Metheny Group released Offramp, a live album, Travels, First Circle, and The Falcon and the Snowman, a soundtrack album for the movie of the same name in which they collaborated on the single "This Is Not America" with David Bowie.

Outside the Group, Pat Metheny has shown different sides of his musical personality.

Pat Metheny made the album Orchestrion with elaborate, custom mechanical instruments, allowing one person to compose and perform as a one-person orchestra.

Pat Metheny explored the fringes of the avant-garde on Zero Tolerance for Silence.

In 1997, Pat Metheny recorded with bassist Marc Johnson on Johnson's release The Sound of Summer Running.

Pat Metheny collaborated with Polish jazz and folk singer Anna Maria Jopek on Upojenie and Bruce Hornsby on Hot House.

Pat Metheny has recorded Coleman's compositions on a number of albums, starting with a medley of "Round Trip" and "Broadway Blues" on his debut album, Bright Size Life.

Pat Metheny worked extensively with Coleman's collaborators, such as Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, and Billy Higgins, and he recorded the album Song X with Coleman and toured with him.

Pat Metheny made three albums on ECM with Brazilian vocalist and percussionist Nana Vasconcelos.

Pat Metheny lived in Brazil from the late 1980s to the early 1990s and performed with several local musicians, such as Milton Nascimento and Toninho Horta.

Pat Metheny played with Antonio Carlos Jobim as a tribute, in a live performance in Carnegie Hall Salutes The Jazz Masters: Verve 50th Anniversary.

Pat Metheny recorded Reich's composition Electric Counterpoint on Reich's album Different Trains.

Pat Metheny plays a custom-made 42-string Pikasso I created by Canadian luthier Linda Manzer.

Pat Metheny has used the guitar in his guest appearances on other artists' albums.

Manzer has made many acoustic guitars for Pat Metheny, including a mini guitar, an acoustic sitar guitar, and the baritone guitar, which Pat Metheny used for the recording of One Quiet Night.

Pat Metheny was one of the first jazz guitarists to use the Roland GR-300 Guitar Synthesizer.

Pat Metheny was an early proponent of the twelve-string guitar in jazz.

At the age of 12, Pat Metheny bought a natural finish Gibson ES-175 that he played throughout his early career, until it was retired in 1995.