Pat Metheny News

Once upon a time Wes Montgomery plugged in his guitar and changed the way the world listened to jazz.

Polish musician and singer Anna Maria Jopek, praised by jazz great Pat Metheny as "original, unique, different," will next month be performing a concert for jazz lovers in the southwestern holiday hotspot of ...

Once upon a time Wes Montgomery plugged in his guitar and changed the way the world listened to jazz.

Between the Lines Samuel Blaser writes and plays daringly on his debut as a leader, blending free jazz sensibilities with a straightahead approach.

He changed the shape of jazz playing with the original Ornette Coleman Quartet in the late 1950s, and went on to record some of the most seminal albums in music with artists like John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, ...

This year's Warsaw Summer Jazz Days festival, loved by fans in Poland and around Europe, starts June 26, boasting a lineup of international stars including the Pat Metheny Trio, Chick Corea's Return to Forever, ...

The three-level Anthology debuted last June with an opening-month lineup that included such stars as Chick Corea, Arturo Sandoval and Jane Monheit.

It's been almost four years since saxophonist David Sanchez released Coral , the disc which marked the end of an eleven year relationship with Sony Music-and it's wonderful to have his big, singing, prolix ...

Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny ad mitted to high school students that it's a tough road to become a professional musician, but having a love of music makes the journey worthwhile.

In common with Sonny Rollins, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, the late Miles Davis and only a handful of others in recent times, the Swedish pianist/composer Esbjorn Svensson was that rarest of ...

Life is full of many odd circles and repetitions, but it's a rare person who starts performing in a family country band at only 22 months old and then sails past his 70th year heading his own brood of ...

Roy Haynes didn't look or act like any 83-year-old man I've ever encountered last Saturday night at the Isthmus Jazz Festival's marquee concert.

Michael Brecker was a musicians' musician, with jaw-dropping chops and a unique and highly influential harmonic and melodic style.

Out here in Japan I am going through some of the old requests; here is one: Recommendations re new jazz recordings I have a few: 1. Anything by Brad Mehldau; he is a very subtle pianist, broadly in the mold of ...

None of young Kenny Gorelick's high school teachers could have predicted that their prodigious young saxophone student would eventually grow up and turn into the best-selling instrumental composer of all time.

Karsten Jahnke , Germany's leading concert organizer, got the 2008 jazzahead!-Skoda Award last month for nearly five decades of service to jazz and the music industry.

Resonance Records Releases 1st U.S. CD from Swedish Guitar Phenom Andreas Oberg - "A Tribute to His Favorite Guitarists" Swedish jazz guitarist Andreas Oberg has been seizing increasing attention for his ...

Jody Shayne will play the Stockade Inn this Thursday. Jody Shayne is an unlikely jazz chanteuse.

Making a statement Bassist Spalding adds lyrics to her many jazz talents On her new CD, Esperanza Spalding shifts from wordless vocals to singing full-on lyrics, mostly of her own composition.

“And it allows me to kind of lead the listener in different ways, 'cause I'm really controlling two of the most important parts of the group. In my opinion, of course.”

There are many gifted singers in jazz today, and no shortage of accomplished acoustic bass players. via National Public Radio