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Pat Metheny
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
The guitarist Pat Metheny, from Missouri, was already teaching at Berklee in Boston at the age of nineteen. He played in the group of the vibraphonist Gary Burton and in 1976 made Bright Size Life for ECM, with Jaco Pastorius. From 1977 he led the Pat Metheny Group with the keyboard player Lyle Mays, with a spacious sound, guitar synthesizer and Brazilian influences. Ornette Coleman was one of his great role models; in 1986 he recorded Song X with him. Metheny has won twenty Grammys, across twelve different categories. He also plays acoustic and free music, and works with instruments built especially for him.
Listening
Bright Size Life · Pat Metheny, 1975
Are You Going with Me? · Pat Metheny, 1982
Last Train Home · Pat Metheny, 1987
Discography
Studio albums
- 1974Jaco
- 1976Bright Size Life
- 1977Watercolors
- 1979New Chautauqua
- 198080/81
- 1981As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
- 1983Under Fire: Original Motion Picture Sound Track (soundtrack)
- 1984Rejoicing
- 1986Jaco
- 1986Song X
- 1989Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
- 1990Question and Answer
- 1992Secret Story
- 1994I Can See Your House From Here
- 1994Zero Tolerance for Silence
- 1996Passaggio per il paradiso (soundtrack)
- 1997Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
- 1997The Sign of 4
- 1998Like Minds
- 1999A Map of the World (soundtrack)
- 2000The Move to the Groove Session
- 2000Trio 99 → 00
- 2001Parallel Universe
- 2002Upojenie
- 2003One Quiet Night
- 2004The Song Is You
- 2005Images of Metheny
- 2006Luminescence Disc 1
- 2006Metheny Mehldau
- 2007The Supreme Guitarists, Vol. 1
- 2008Day Trip
- 2010Orchestrion
- 2011What’s It All About
- 2012Unity Band
- 2013Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels, Vol. 20
- 2016Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
- 2020From This Place
- 2021Road to the Sun
- 2023Dream Box
- 2024MoonDial
- 2026Side‐Eye III+
Other work
- 1982Offramp · Pat Metheny Group
- 1987Still Life (Talking)
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
- Jazz MapNL Map
- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- ECM sound Genre
European musicians such as the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the German bassist Eberhard Weber appeared on ECM, but also Americans such as Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny.