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Patrick Bruce Metheny (born 12 August 1954 in Lee's Summit, Missouri, USA) is an American jazz guitarist and leader of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny's musical contexts separate into many branches: the Pat Metheny Group plus various collaborations, duets, solo works, and other side projects. He first made it big in the jazz world with the famous vibraphonist Gary Burton. Throughout the late 70's, 80's, and 90's, Metheny established himself as one of the leading jazz guitar players in the world. Famous for his tasteful midwestern style and tone, he also has an incredible facility with the guitar. His compositions...

Mike Metheny is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and has music degrees from the University of Missouri and Northeast Missouri State University. From 1971 to 1974, he was a trumpeter in the U.S. Army Field Band in Washington D.C. and in 1976 he became a faculty member at Boston's Berklee College of Music, a position he held for six years. While in Boston from 1976 to 1989, Mike led his own Boston- based jazz quartet, appearing in numerous club, concert and festival settings across New England and the U.S. Mike has released seven solo albums: Blue Jay Sessions (1982),...

Since "The Way Up" Pat Metheny realized various other projects. The end of the "The Way Up Tour" in 2006 was de facto also the end of the Pat Metheny Group. But then, 2012, Metheny released with Nonesuch Records "Unity Band". This was de facto the birth of the new Pat Metheny Unity Group - a quartet with changed in 2014 to a quintet. The debut album follows a second release called "Kin (<-->)". In the year 2013 was a banner one for Pat Metheny. After being awarded his 20th Grammy, for Unity Band, and the release of his critically...

Trio collaboration between legendary jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Bill Stewart. The trio released the album "Trio 99 → 00" on Warner Bros. in February 2000. (The album title is often listed as "Trio 99 > 00" or "Trio 99>00".) This trio came together in 1999 as Metheny finished a two-year stretch of recording and touring around the world with his regular group. For his "vacation" period, Metheny decided to find a few like-minded younger players and continue once again to expand on his unique vision of what a guitar-led, improvisationally-driven, three-piece ensemble could suggest within...