30 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 has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards, and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories.

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

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

When he was 15, Pat Metheny won a scholarship from Down Beat magazine to a one-week jazz camp where he was mentored by guitarist Attila Zoller, who then invited him to New York City to meet guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Ron Carter.

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

Pat Metheny moved to Boston in the early 1970s to teach at the Berklee College of Music under the supervision of jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton and established a reputation as a prodigy.

Pat Metheny appeared on Burton's studio recordings, from Ring in 1974 to Passengers in 1977.

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 for which they collaborated on the single "This Is Not America" with David Bowie.

Pat Metheny has recorded albums under his solo artist billing regularly throughout his career.

In 2012, Pat Metheny formed the Unity Band with Antonio Sanchez on drums, Ben Williams on bass and Chris Potter on saxophone.

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

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.

Decades earlier, Pat Metheny had appeared on Reich's album Different Trains performing Reich's composition, Electric Counterpoint.

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.

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

Pat Metheny is the only person to have won Grammy Awards in ten different categories.