Pat Metheny

Bright Size Life

Pat Metheny · 1976

Bright Size LifeBright Size LifePat Metheny · 1976 (1976) was MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー's debut on ECM, recorded at 21. He chose JacoJaco Pastoriusジャコ・パストリアス, then still unknown. This encounter became the starting point for both their careers.

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker · 1987

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

Michael BreckerMichael Breckerマイケル・ブレッカー appeared on approximately 900 recordings — not just jazz, but pop and rock sessions where someone needed saxophone done right. He appeared on Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー's 80/8180/81Pat Metheny · 1980 (1980) and released his own debut in 1987. He died of leukemia in 2007 at 57, having won 15 Grammy Awards.

— Michael Brecker, Wikipedia, 2024

'When I played with Jaco, the bass became something completely different'

On the recording of Bright Size Life (1976), his debut album featuring Jaco.

Guitar World

Pat Metheny tells the story of how he met Jaco Pastorius

2024-11-11

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Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group · 1978

August 1981, Stadtpark, Hamburg. The Pat Metheny GroupPat Metheny GroupPat Metheny Group · 1978 on the eve of the Offramp album — with Lyle Mays and Nana Vasconcelos, the signature group sound essentially fully formed.

— Pat Metheny Group — Hamburg 1981, 1981

July 9, 1990, Jazz à Vienne. The Parallel Realities tour — Herbie HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック (piano), Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー (guitar), Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット (drums), Dave HollandDave Hollandデイヴ・ホランド (bass). A miraculous meeting of four musicians each at a peak in their careers.

— Jazz à Vienne, 1990

Bright Size Life

Pat Metheny · 1976

In 1976, the 21-year-old Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー recorded his ECM debut Bright Size LifeBright Size LifePat Metheny · 1976 with then-unknown Jaco PastoriusJaco Pastoriusジャコ・パストリアス on bass — a pivotal moment in both careers.

— Bright Size Life, Wikipedia, 2024

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

80/8180/81Pat Metheny · 1980 (1980) brought Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー together with Michael BreckerMichael Breckerマイケル・ブレッカー, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnetteJack DeJohnetteジャック・ディジョネット. The double-album of long-form improvisation showed a darker side beyond the Pat Metheny Group's sunlit image.

— 80/81, Wikipedia, 2024

Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group · 1978

Pat Metheny GroupPat Metheny GroupPat Metheny Group · 1978 (1978) marked the start of Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー's long collaboration with keyboardist Lyle Mays. Built on the ECM sound but fusing Brazilian grooves with long-form melodies, it established the band's distinctive idiom.

— Pat Metheny Group (album), Wikipedia, 2024

Song X (1986) paired Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー with Ornette Coleman — ECM's flagship guitarist meeting free jazz's patriarch. The unexpected collaboration showcased Metheny's wide musical curiosity.

— Song X, Wikipedia, 2024

A park by the river. Yoshi has a book open but isn't reading. On learning to just sit with the emptiness.