Pat Metheny - Jazz Guitar Virtuoso - Live Broadcast Collection (2025)

Guitarist, composer, and bandleader Pat Metheny is the only artist to win 20 Grammy Awards in ten different categories. A consummate stylist and risk-taker, his musical signature melds a singular, euphoric sense of harmony with Afro-Latin and Brazilian sounds, rock, funk, global folk musics, and, of course, jazz. His 1976 debut, Bright Size Life, and the self-titled Pat Metheny Group two years later, resonated with audiences and critics for their euphoric lyricism and rhythmic ideas. 1981's As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, with keyboardist Lyle Mays, topped the jazz charts. ThePMG won their first Grammy for 1982's Offramp. The Metheny Group with Ornette Coleman cut Song X in 1986. 1987's Still Life (Talking) and 1989's Letter from Home both went gold. On 1992's Secret Story, PMG collaborated with Pinpeat Orchestra, the London Orchestra, the Choir of the Cambodian Royal Palace, and Toots Thielemans. Metheny's 2011 solo guitar release What's It All About won a Grammy for Best New Age Album. Metheny was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2018. 2021's Road to the Sun featured his first works for classical guitar. Later that year, his Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) commenced an ongoing project featuring alternating rhythm sections performing new and vintage material. In 2023, he issued the solo Dream Box and, for the first time in his career, he bookended it with another solo guitar offering titled MoonDial the following year.