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Pat Metheny is definitely my favorite jazz musician, probably my favorite any musician. I will try to make this topic the closest thing to his discography, uploading his solo albums, his many collaborations with various other jazz greats and, of course, his work with the Pat Metheny Group.

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Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954 in Lee's Summit, Missouri) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-Bop, jazz-rock fusion, and folk-jazz.

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Pat Metheny � Bright Size Life (1976)





Pat Metheny's debut studio album is a good one, a trio date that finds him already laying down the distinctively cottony, slightly withdrawn tone and asymmetrical phrasing that would serve him well through most of the swerves in direction ahead. His original material, all of it lovely, bears the bracing air of his Midwestern upbringing, with titles like "Missouri Uncompromised," "Midwestern Nights Dream," and "Omaha Celebration." There is also a sole harbinger of radical matters way down the road with the inclusion of a loose-jointed treatment of Ornette Coleman's "Round Trip/Broadway Blues," proving that Song X did not come from totally out of the blue. Besides the debut of Metheny, this CD also features one of the earliest recordings of Jaco Pastorius, a fully formed, well-matched contrapuntal force on electric bass, though content to leave the spotlight mostly to Metheny. Bob Moses, who like Metheny played in the Gary Burton Quintet at the time, is the drummer, and he can mix it up, too. (AMG)

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Label:  ECM Recorded:  Ludwigsburg, West Germany, December, 1975. Released:  1976. Time:  37.06 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Bass, Guitar, Bass (Electric), Composer, Guitar (12 String), 6-String Bass, 12-String Bass Guitar, Guitar (12 String Electric) - Bob Moses  Drums, Drums (Snare) - Jaco Pastorius  Bass, Bass (Electric), Fretless Bass Track listing: 1. Bright Size Life (Metheny)  4:45 2. Sirabhorn (Metheny)  5:29 3. Unity Village (Metheny)  3:40 4. Missouri Uncompromised (Metheny)  4:21 5. Midwestern Nights Dream (Metheny)  6:00 6. Unquity Road (Metheny)  3:35 7. Omaha Celebration (Metheny)  4:18 8. Round Trip/Broadway Blues (Coleman)  4:58 mp3 | 160kbps | FhG | 42.5MB

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Pat Metheny With Lyle Mays Trio � Watercolors (1977)





Pat Metheny emerges on his second album, Watercolors, as an ECM impressionist, generally conforming to the label's overall sound while still asserting his own personality. As the title suggests, there are several mood pieces here that are suspended in the air without rhythmic underpinning, a harbinger for the new age invasion still in the future. Metheny's softly focused, asymmetrical guitar style, with echoes of apparent influences as disparate as Jim Hall, George Benson, Jerry Garcia, and various country guitarists, is quite distinctive even at this early juncture. Metheny's long-running partnership with keyboardist Lyle Mays also begins here, with Mays mostly on acoustic piano but also providing a few mild synthesizer washes. Danny Gottlieb is on drums, and ECM regular Eberhard Weber handles the bass. This is essentially the first album by the Pat Metheny Group per se, although the band had yet to find its direction in this somewhat diffuse showing. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  Oslo, Norway, February, 1977. Released  1977. Time  41.48 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Guitar, Guitar (12 String), 12-String Bass Guitar, Harp Guitar - Lyle Mays  Piano - Eberhard Weber  Bass - Danny Gottlieb  Drums, Drums (Snare) Track listing: 1. Watercolors (Metheny) 6:30 2. Icefire (Metheny) 6:08 3. Oasis (Metheny) 4:05 4. Lakes (Metheny) 4:46 5. River Quay (Metheny) 4:57 6. Suite: I. Florida Greeting Song (Metheny) 2:32 7. II. Legend of the Fountain (Metheny) 2:32 8. Sea Song (Metheny) 10:18 mp3 | 160kbps | FhG | 47.9MB

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Pat Metheny Group - Pat Metheny Group (1978)





The first recording by the Pat Metheny Group features the innovative guitarist along with keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan, and drummer Dan Gottlieb. The music is quite distinctive, floating rather than swinging, electric but not rockish, and full of folkish melodies. The best known of these six Metheny-Mays originals are "Phase Dance" and "Jaco." This music grows in interest with each listen. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  Oslo, Norway, January, 1978. Released  1978. Time  41.28 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Bass, Guitar, Guitar (12 String), Performer, Guitar (12 String Electric) - Lyle Mays  Synthesizer, Piano, Autoharp, Keyboards, Oberheim - Mark Egan  Bass, Bass (Electric) - Danny Gottlieb  Drums, Drums (Snare) Track listing: 1. San Lorenzo (Mays, Metheny) 10:16 2. Phase Dance (Mays, Metheny) 8:25 3. Jaco (Metheny) 5:40 4. Aprilwind (Metheny) 2:09 5. April Joy (Metheny) 8:15 6. Lone Jack (Mays, Metheny) 6:43 mp3 | 320kbps | FhG | 95.1MB

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Pat Metheny - New Chautauqua (1979)





Always exploring side routes even at this early stage, Pat Metheny goes it all alone here, overdubbing himself on electric six- and 12-string guitars, acoustic guitar, electric bass, and 15-string harp guitar. Yet New Chautauqua is basically an indulgence, one where Metheny spins his wheels within the context of the impressionistic ECM ambience, creating pretty sounds but only fleeting streaks of memorable music. The album gets off to a great start on the title track, where Metheny's folk influences come to the fore with a strummed acoustic guitar base and electric guitar overhead. But the lengthy "Long-Ago Child/Fallen Star" drifts aimlessly in a dreamy fashion that only a new age navelgazer could love, and he doesn't grab the listener by the lapels again until the lovely vamp of "Sue�o con M�xico" way down the line. Chalk it up to growing pains. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  Oslo, Norway, August, 1978 Released  1979. Time  38.29 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Guitar, Bass (Electric), Guitar (Electric), Guitar (12 String), Fretless Bass, Guitar (12 String Electric) Track listing: 1. New Chautauqua (Metheny) 5:20 2. Country Poem (Metheny) 2:34 3. Long Ago Child/Fallen Star (Metheny) 10:19 4. Hermitage (Metheny) 5:39 5. Sue�o con M�xico (Metheny) 5:59 6. Daybreak (Metheny) 8:38 mp3 | 320kbps | LAME 3.93 | 88.3MB

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Pat Metheny Group - American Garage (1980)





The back liner photo gives the impression of a grungy Midwestern garage band, but no, that doesn't describe this sophisticated jazz-rock quartet, which was simultaneously breaking into mass-market acceptance and away from the contemplative ECM stereotype. The arrangements are more structured, the playing often more intense and searching, with a more pronounced rock influence. On the title track, Metheny digs in and displays some authoritative rock-oriented licks and intensity, and the rhythms on "The Search" have a slight, at times asymmetrical Latin feeling. The nearly 13-minute "The Epic" finds the Metheny group developing some real combustion in the improvised sections as Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb grow tighter as a unit. In hindsight, some of the music seems a bit too tightly conceived to allow adequate breathing room, but this is still high-quality jazz-rock for its time. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  'Super Guitar Festival', Brookfield, MA, June, 1979. Released  1980. Time  35.21 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Bass, Guitar, Guitar (12 String), Producer, Performer - Lyle Mays  Organ, Piano, Autoharp, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Oberheim - Mark Egan  Bass, Bass (Electric) - Danny Gottlieb  Drums, Drums (Snare) Track listing: 1. (Cross the) Heartland (Mays, Metheny) 4:54 2. Airstream (Mays, Metheny) 6:55 3. The Search (Mays, Metheny) 6:20 4. American Garage (Mays, Metheny) 4:13 5. The Epic (Mays, Metheny) 12:59 mp3 | 320kbps | LAME 3.92 | 81.0MB

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Pat Metheny Quintet � 80/81 (1980)





Pat Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package, a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely continued pursuing their electric commercial successes. From the disbanded Keith Jarrett American quartet came bassist Charlie Haden and tenor Dewey Redman -- who alternates with and occasionally plays alongside tenor Michael Brecker -- and Jack DeJohnette provides more combustible drumming than Metheny had ever experienced on record before. Yet Metheny's off-kilter wandering on solo electric guitar is a comfortable fit for the post-bop rhythmic crosscurrents of this music. Indeed, Haden and Metheny are in total sympathy, perhaps celebrating their mutual Missouri roots, and Metheny's difficult "Pretty Scattered" -- which he mockingly described as "Guitar Revenge!" -- nearly manages to stump even Redman and Brecker. The first of the "Two Folk Songs" is a great example of the Metheny folk-jazz fusion, with furious strummed guitar underpinning Brecker's melodic line and excursions on the outside and DeJohnette's spectacular drums. Another remarkable track is "Open," a group improvisation that finds DeJohnette shaping the track's direction with a pushing solo and Metheny and the saxes emerging at the end. The two original LPs were organized so that the more distinctive Metheny fusions were on sides one and four and the overt jazz tracks occupied sides two and three. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  Oslo, Norway, May 26-29, 1980. Released  1980. Time  80.25 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Guitar, Performer - Charlie Haden  Bass, Performer - Jack DeJohnette  Cymbals, Drums, Drums (Snare), Performer - Dewey Redman  Sax (Tenor), Performer - Michael Brecker  Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Performer Track listing: CD1 1. Two Folk Songs (c: Haden, Metheny / p: Metheny, Haden, DeJohnette, Brecker) 20:52 2. 80/81 (c: Metheny / p: Metheny, Haden, DeJohnette, Redman) 7:34 3. The Bat (c: Metheny / p: Metheny, Haden, DeJohnette, Redman, Brecker) 6:05 4. Turnaround (c: Coleman / p: Metheny, Haden, DeJohnette) 7:04 CD2 1. Open (c/p: Metheny, Haden, DeJohnette, Redman, Brecker) 14:34 2. Pretty Scattered (c: Metheny / p: Metheny, Haden, DeJohnette, Redman, Brecker) 7:04 3. Every Day (I Thank You) (c: Metheny / p: Metheny, Haden, DeJohnette, Brecker) 13:21 4. Goin� Ahead (c/p: Metheny) mp3 | 320kbps | LAME 3.92 | 114.7MB

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Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)






The regrettable title aside, this joint solo effort by Metheny and regular pianist and collaborator Lyle Mays is an impressive outing. In the process of stretching out away from the confines of the quartet setting of prior albums, Metheny and Mays presage the sleeker and more ethereal sound of the band's Geffen years on portions of the title track. And while this side-long number has some dreamy moments, it also bogs down in a trite climax or two; one gets the sense of a jazz fusion and prog rock marriage Metheny luckily never fully explored. Minor flaws, really, since the piece holds together in spite of the worrisome lapses of taste. The balance of the album is just fine, with the highlight being the Bill Evans remembrance, "September Fifteenth" (the date of Evan's passing, which occurred while the album was being recorded). Metheny and Mays appropriately opt for a serene and slightly elegiac piano and acoustic guitar duet. The set is balanced out by the fleet Americana of "Ozark" and the streamlined swinger "It's for You." Topped off by integral and tasteful percussion by future band regular Nana Vasconcelos, this 1981 Metheny date is certainly a worthwhile disc for fans to seek out, while not being essential. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  Oslo, Norway, September, 1980. Released  1981. Time  43.34 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Guitar (8 String), Guitar (Classical), Performer, Guitar (12 String Electric), Guitar (12 String Acoustic) - Lyle Mays  Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Autoharp, Keyboards, Performer - Nan� Vasconcelos  Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Autoharp, Keyboards, Performer Track listing: 1. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Mays, Metheny) 20:45 2. Ozark (Mays, Metheny) 4:03 3. September Fifteenth (Dedicated to Bill Evans) (Mays, Metheny) 7:45 4. It�s For You (Mays, Metheny) 8:20 5. Estupenda Gra�a (Estupenda Gra�a) 2:41 mp3 | 192kbps | LAME 3.97 | 60.3MB

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Pat Metheny Group - Offramp (1982)





If 1980's As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls was defined by Pat Metheny's charisma, its less accessible but certainly rewarding successor, Offramp, finds him leaning more toward the abstract. But as cerebral as Metheny gets on such atmospheric pieces as "Are You Going with Me?" and "Au Lait," his playing remains decidedly lyrical and melodic. Clearly influenced by Jim Hall, the thoughtful Metheny makes excellent use of space, choosing his notes wisely and reminding listeners that, while he has heavy-duty chops, he's not one to beat everybody over the head with them. Even when he picks up the tempo for the difficult and angular title song, he shuns empty musical acrobatics. Throughout the CD, Metheny enjoys a powerful rapport with keyboardist Lyle Mays, who also avoids exploiting his technique and opts for meaningful storytelling. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  NYC, October, 1981. Released  1982. Time  42.22 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Synthesizer, Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Synthesizer), Synclavier, Performer, Synth Guitar - Lyle Mays  Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Autoharp, Harp, Synclavier - Steve Rodby  Bass, Bass (Electric), Bass (Acoustic) - Danny Gottlieb  Drums, Drums (Snare) - Nana Vasconcelos  Percussion, Drums, Vocals, Voices, Berimbau Track listing: 1. Barcarole (Mays, Metheny, Vasconcelos) 3.18 2. Are You Going With Me? (Mays, Metheny) 8:51 3. Au Lait (Mays, Metheny) 8:31 4. Eighteen (Mays, Metheny, Vasconcelos) 5:09 5. Offramp (Mays, Metheny) 5:58 6. James (Mays, Metheny) 6:45 7. The Bat, Pt. 2 (Mays, Metheny) 3:50 mp3 | 128kbps | FhG | 38.8MB

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Pat Metheny Group - Travels (1983)





Now well into its gliding Brazilian-tinged mode, the Pat Metheny Group hits the road, as this two-CD set catches the band live in Dallas, Philadelphia, Hartford, Sacramento, and Nacogdoches, TX. Percussionist Nan� Vasconcelos is still listed as a "special guest," but ever since Wichita Falls, he had not only been a part of the group, he was the transforming element in the Metheny "sound," adding his various shakers, effects and ethereal vocals. Sidekick Lyle Mays gets deeper into floating, glistening synthesizer textures, but he is still able to take formidable and touching solos on acoustic grand piano. Still experimenting with new hardware, Metheny's work on a detuned guitar synthesizer gives the live "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" an exotic Balinese-like sound. Other highlights are the hard Brazilian grooves on "Straight On Red" and "Song for Bilbao," as well as the trademark Metheny glide of "Are You Going With Me?" -- and the brief title track has a winning, guileless simplicity much like that of Keith Jarrett in a prayerful mood. If you liked the popular Offramp, you'll fall for Travels, too, but get the former album first. (AMG)

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Label  ECM Recorded  live on tour, July, October, November, 1982. Released  1983. Time  96.26 Personnel: - Pat Metheny  Bass, Guitar, Guitar (12 String), Guitar (Synthesizer), Producer, Guitar (Classical), Performer, Guitar Synth - Lyle Mays  Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Autoharp, Keyboards, Synclavier - Steve Rodby  Bass, Bass (Electric), Bass (Acoustic), Synthesizer Bass - Danny Gottlieb  Drums, Drums (Snare) - Nana Vasconcelos  Percussion, Drums, Vocals, Voices, Berimbau Track listing: CD1 1. Are You Going With Me? (Metheny, Mays) 9:19 2. The Fields, the Sky (Metheny, Mays) 7:46 3. Goodbye (Metheny, Mays) 8:16 4. Phase Dance (Metheny, Mays) 8:03 5. Straight On Red (Metheny) 7:26 6. Farmer's Trust (Metheny, Mays) 6:25 CD2 1. Extradition (Metheny, Mays) 5:45 2. Goin' Ahead/As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Metheny, Mays) 16:22 3. Travels (Metheny) 5:03 4. Song For Bilbao (Metheny, Mays) 8:28 5. San Lorenzo (Metheny, Mays) 13:35 mp3 | 256kbps | FhG | 176.8MB

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