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SUMMARY:Pat Metheny
DESCRIPTION:Pat Metheny was born in Lee's Summit\, MO on August 12\, 1954 i
 nto a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8\, Metheny switche
 d to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15\, he was working regularly with the
  best jazz musicians in Kansas City\, receiving valuable on-the-bandstand e
 xperience at an unusually young age. Metheny first burst onto the internati
 onal jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibra
 phone great Gary Burton\, the young Missouri native already displayed his s
 oon-to-become trademarked playing style\, which blended the loose and flexi
 ble articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhy
 thmic and harmonic sensibility: a way of playing and improvising that was m
 odern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody\, s
 wing\, and the blues. With the release of his first album\, Bright Size Lif
 e (1975)\, he reinvented the traditional "jazz guitar" sound for a new gene
 ration of players. Throughout his career\, Pat Metheny has continued to red
 efine the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolv
 e the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument.\\nMetheny's ve
 rsatility is nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years\, he has
  performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Her
 bie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie. Metheny’s bo
 dy of work includes compositions for solo guitar\, small ensembles\, electr
 ic and acoustic instruments\, large orchestras\, and ballet pieces and\\n\\
 neven the robotic instruments of his Orchestrion project\, while always sid
 estepping the limits of any one genre.\\n\\nAs well as being an accomplishe
 d musician\, Metheny has also participated in the academic arena as a music
  educator. At 18\, he was the youngest teacher ever at the University of Mi
 ami. At 19\, he became the youngest teacher ever at the Berklee College of 
 Music\, where he also received an honorary doctorate more than twenty years
  later\, in 1996. He has also taught music workshops all over the world\, f
 rom the Dutch Royal Conservatory to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz t
 o clinics in Asia and South America. He has also been a true musical pionee
 r in the realm of electronic music\, and was one of the very first jazz mus
 icians to treat the synthesizer as a serious musical instrument. Years befo
 re the invention of MIDI technology\, Metheny was using the Synclavier as a
  composing tool. He also has been instrumental in the development of severa
 l new kinds of guitars such as the soprano acoustic guitar\, the 42-string 
 Pikasso guitar\, Ibanez’s PM series jazz guitars\, and a variety of other
  custom instruments.\\n\\nIt is one thing to attain popularity as a musicia
 n\, but it is another to receive the kind of acclaim Metheny has garnered f
 rom critics and peers. Over the years\, he has won countless polls as "Best
  Jazz Guitarist" and awards\, including three gold records for (Still Life)
  Talking\, Letter from Home\, and Secret Story. He has also won 20 Grammy A
 wards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock
  Instrumental\, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording\, Best Jazz Instrumental S
 olo\, Best Instrumental Composition at one point winning seven consecutive 
 Grammys for seven consecutive albums. In 2015 he was inducted into the Down
 Beat Hall of Fame\, becoming only the fourth guitarist to be included (alon
 g with Django Reinhardt\, Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery) and its you
 ngest member. In 2018 he was named an NEA Jazz Master\, the nation's highes
 t honor in jazz\, awarded to the recipients "for their lifetime achievement
 s and exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz." Metheny has sp
 ent much of his life on tour\, often doing more than 100 shows a year since
  becoming a bandleader in the 70s. At the time of this writing\, he continu
 es to be one of the brightest stars of the jazz community\, dedicating time
  to both his own projects and those of emerging artists and established vet
 erans alike\, helping them to reach their audience as well as realizing the
 ir own artistic visions.
LOCATION:120 S Main St\, Ketchum\, ID\, 83340\, United States
URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/pat-metheny/
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