The Detroit Jazz Festival has been around, under one name or another, for 33 years. And Pat Metheny has missed all of them. But, the guitarist contends, it's nothing personal. It's more about "when it ...

The Unity Sessions works as both epilogue and re-examination for guitarist Pat Metheny. It chronicles the seemingly completed chapter of the jazz journeyman’s Unity Band, the traditionally designed ...

offers nearly two hours of classic guitar-led jazz. The performance was captured in the intimate 5 Angels Theater in New York City, after all the officially-scheduled, audience-based concerts had ...

Jazz-rock fusion takes center stage in West Orange as Luna Stage pays homage this weekend to Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin and other jazz-rock pioneers. The Mahavishnu Project, which performs Saturday ...

For the first time since his 1980 release 80/81, guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with a band that features tenor saxophone. Unity Band, due from Nonesuch on June 12, 2012, introduces a new Metheny ...

Metheny opened with a solo on his 42-string Pikasso guitar, a Hydra-headed invention with a very delicate harp-like upper register. Watching him grapple in the gloom made for a dramatic start, but the ...

It's possible that the last time Pat Metheny played a club gig in town, it was the mid-'70s at the Longhorn Bar, better known as the breeding ground of Twin Cities punk. The guitar superstar ...

Guitarist Pat Metheny has been at the top of his craft for 40 years — since he first hit the Jazz chart Top 10 with his 1979 album “New Chautauqua.” Since then, he’s had more than two dozen more ...

Pat Metheny The Unity Sessions finds the 20 time Grammy winning guitarist and the youngest member of the Downbeat Hall of Fame at the helm of one of his best bands ever as they wrap up a 150 date ...

One might suspect that in listening to his newest album, “Dream Box,” Pat Metheny subscribes to the familiar axiom of doing something yourself when you want it done correctly. That especially holds ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny has built a mainstream audience not only through the accessibility of his music, but also through ...