The album blurs the borders between straight-ahead jazz, fusion and what became known as Americana and, though Metheny has always rung the changes and avoided codification, it became an elastic ...

At his best, Pat Metheny is a marvel in an extraordinary range of different contexts. His first album as leader (1976’s Bright Size Life) was an inter-active, trio set. So is Day Trip - his current ...

In 2007, composer, arranger and performer Richard Niles wrote, produced and hosted a three-part radio series for the BBC titled Pat Metheny Bright Size Life. The in-depth discussions Niles held with ...

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Few musicians manage to be relentlessly creative and enormously popular at the same time, but Pat Metheny has threaded that needle for nearly five decades. After a short apprenticeship as a student ...