Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny (/məˈθiːni/ mə-THEE-nee; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-bop, latin jazz and jazz fusion. Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards. He is the brother of jazz flugelhornist and journalist Mike Metheny.
Jeff Kaiis Metheny, Willow Metheny, Nicolas Djakeem Metheny
Parents
Dave Metheny, Lois Metheny
Siblings
Mike Metheny
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, Grammy Award for Best New Age Album, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Goya Award for Best Original S...
Music Groups
Pat Metheny Group
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance, Juno Award for Music DVD of the Year, Echo Award for Jazz Production
Movies
The Falcon and the Snowman, Twice in a Lifetime, Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed, A Map of the World, Trece entre mil, Pat Metheny: The Way Up: Live, Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live, Shadows and Light, Passage to Paradise, DeJohnette, Hancock, Holland, Metheny: In Concert, Pat Metheny: Speakin...
Star Sign
Leo
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Quote
1
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time. Part of that is from having played and toured so much. You can have the best night of your life playing in Portland, and you're playing in Vancouver tomorrow. People in Vancouver don't care about how you played in Portland. It doesn't matter if you played the best you ever played last night - now it's tonight!
2
[on his new recording, 2014] I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable. When I came up with 'Kin', it was thinking about that connection thing in a more linear way: the way we imagine our grandparents, our great-grandparents and then some cavemen somewhere. It goes the other way too. We are the ancestors of people who are going to be here 400 years from now. We tend to think we're the end of it all. But it's actually going to keep going.
3
[on working with the 'Unity Group'] As for the political aspect of being a musician, of playing in a way that is not built on the conventional rise and fall of the culture, that's a whole other chapter in itself. We're all trying our best to illuminate what we believe in, and it's quite different that this sort of 'American Idol' culture that we live in. So on one level the political aspect is there. But I wouldn't say it's just that tune. I'd say it's all of it.
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Fact
1
World renowned Jazz guitarist.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wild
2014/I
writer: "Are You Going With Me"
Bi no tsubo
TV Series 1 episode, 2013 performer - 2 episodes, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013
Django Unchained
2012
"Nicaragua"
Sû-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san
2012
performer: "Prayer"
No me la puc treure del cap
2012
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Banda sonora
2011
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Jenseits der Mauer
2009
TV Movie performer: "This Is Not America" - as Pat Metheny Group / writer: "This Is Not America"
Ondine
2009
performer: "One Quiet Night" / writer: "One Quiet Night" - as Patrick B. Metheny
Training Day
2001
writer: "American Dream"
The Taste of Others
2000
writer: "Au Lait" - as P. Metheny
Jade
1995
"Last To Know"
Toys
1992
performer: "LET JOY AND INNOCENCE PREVAIL" / producer: "LET JOY AND INNOCENCE PREVAIL"
Arachnophobia
1990
performer: "Goin' Ahead" / writer: "Goin' Ahead"
Twice in a Lifetime
1985
writer: "Yolanda, You Learn" - uncredited
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
writer: "THIS IS NOT AMERICA"
Fandango
1985
performer: "September 15th", "It's For You" / writer: "September 15th", "It's For You", "Farmer's Trust"
$100,000
