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Pat Metheny

December 2021

  • ‘Splashy, jubilant and alive in a way I hadn’t felt in months’ … (L-R) Pat Metheny, Marcia Griffiths, and Lonnie Liston Smith.

    Japanese gems, maligned boybands and ‘the Dan’: the best old music Guardian writers discovered this year

    In a good year for rummaging through back catalogues, our writers have been delighted by everything from a A1’s embrace of soft rock to the Marvelettes’ ageless glee

October 2021

  • This months best albums image

    The month's best album reviews
    Lil Nas X, Lindsey Buckingham and Low: October’s best album reviews

    Discover all our four- and five-star album reviews from the last month, from pop to jazz and classical

September 2021

  • A fluid musical mind ... Pat Metheny.

    Jazz album of the month
    Pat Metheny: Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) review – new talent and wily reinventions

    Metheny’s new trio, with the formidable James Francies on piano and Marcus Gilmore on drums, provoke rapture in this live set

December 2020

  • Joshua Redman, Maria Schneider and Laura Jurd.

    Best music of 2020
    The 10 best jazz albums of 2020

    Alongside archive recordings from Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, and inventive new releases by Maria Schneider and Carla Bley, 2020 had plenty of spectacular fusions

March 2020

  • Searching out a bigger soundscape … Pat Metheny.

    Jazz album of the month
    Pat Metheny: From This Place review – wide-horizons music with freewheeling relish

    Metheny’s superb band crack through his postbop experiments, unrehearsed, and the addition of orchestral arrangements broadens the appeal

May 2016

  • Cuong Vu Trio.

    Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny review – jazz with an exploratory spirit

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    Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions review – everything flows beautifully

October 2015

  • Eberhard Weber

    Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek and others: Hommage a Eberhard Weber review – heartfelt 75th birthday tribute

    A trio of jazz aristocracts gang up to pay tribute to the German bassist and composer on the occasion of his 75th birthday

August 2014

  • Pat Metheny

    10 of the best
    Pat Metheny: 10 of the best

    Here, to celebrate the jazz guitarist turning 60, are 10 of his greatest musical moments, from samba-tinged Beatles, to TV-ad favourites, to noise wigouts

June 2014

  • Pat Metheny Unity Band

    Pat Metheny Unity Band review – edgy jazz and much-loved 80s hits

  • James Lavelle

    This week's new live music
    Meltdown, Arcade Fire, Jessy Lanza: this week's new live music

March 2014

  • pat metheny unity kin

    Kin review – the Pat Metheny Unity Group take on 30 instruments and win

    Pat Metheny's Unity Group muster a huge array of instruments and the tunes to match, writes Dave Gelly

December 2013

  • Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko

    Best albums of 2013
    The best albums of 2013: John Fordham's jazz albums of the year

    From Polish trumpeters to English folk singers, there were some great recordings in 2013 – here's our pick

May 2013

  • John Zorn

    Take 5: John Fordham's month in jazz
    Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – May

    In his monthly roundup of what's happening in the jazz world, our critic looks back at one festival and forward to another, and celebrates a 60th birthday

March 2013

  • manfred eicher ecm

    ECM: In search of free jazz and free expression

    Manfred Eicher discusses his genre-defying label ECM, home of Keith Jarrett, Arvo Pärt and priceless recordings of free jazz greats

February 2013

  • Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project – review

    Pat Metheny produces astonishing new sounds from a 19th-century instrument, writes Dave Gelly

July 2012

  • Pat Metheny Unity Band – review

    A group of blazing virtuosi with musical intelligence to match delivered a set that was at times utterly scintillating, writes John Fordham

June 2012

  • Pat Metheny: Unity Band – review

    Pat Metheny and friends show off their rare talent for sensitive interplay, writes Dave Gelly
  • Pat Metheny

    Take 5: John Fordham's month in jazz
    Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – June

    In the third of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks his musical milestones from recent weeks, and suggests a few to come. Tell us if we've missed anything, plus what you'd like to see in next month's column

  • Pat Metheny: Unity Band – review

    Typical Metheny: sensuous Latin grooves, synth-guitar fusion, folksy ballads, a good deal of jazz swing, writes John Fordham
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