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METHENY Pat GROUP
USA
* 1978

Line-Up (2005):

Pat Metheny - g
Steve Rodby - bg
Lyle Mays - kb
Nando Lauria - g
Antonio Sanchez - ds
Cuong Vu - tr
Grégoire Maret - hca

Former Members:

Mark Ledford (voc, cca 1987); David Blamires (voc, cca 1987)
Pedro Aznar (g, 1984-?, cca 1989)
Mark Egan (bg, 1978-?)
Larry Goldings (kb, cca 6/00)
Danny Gottlieb (ds, 1978-cca 1982); Nana Vasconcelos (ds,voc,perc, 1981-cca 1982); Paul Vertico (ds, 1984-cca 4/98); Armando Marcal (perc,voc, cca 1987); Bill Stewart (ds, cca 6/00); Richard Bona (perc,voc, cca 2/02)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Pat Metheny Group	1/1978	ECM
2.	American Garage	01.11.1979	ECM			53
3.	Off-Ramp	10/1981	ECM
4.	Travels (2LP)	5/1983	ECM			62
5.	First Circle	10/1984	ECM			91
6.	The Falcon & The Snowman	3/1985	EMI			54
7.	Still Life (Talking)	8/1987	Geffen			86
8.	Letter From Home	7/1989	Geffen			66
9.	The Road To You	7/1993	Geffen			170
10.	We Live Here	1/1995	Geffen			83
11.	Quartet	11/1996				187
12.	Imaginary Day	10/1997	Warner Music			124
13.	Speaking Of Now	26.02.2002	Warner Bros			101
14.	The Way Up	25.01.2005	Nonesuch			99
15.	Letter from Home	07.02.2006	Nonesuch
16.	Road to You: Recorded Live in Europe	07.02.2006	Nonesuch
17.	Missouri, June 1979	07.10.2014	B13
18.	Live In Chicago '87	08.09.2015	Hi Hat
19.	Phase Dancer: Live 1977	18.03.2016	Hi Hat
20.	Live Montreal 1989	01.07.2016	Hi Hat

Pat Metheny:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Bright Size Life	2/1976	ECM
2.	Jaco Pastorius / Pat Metheny / Bruce Ditmas / Paul Bley produced by: Paul Bley	2/1977	Improvising Artists
3.	Watercolors	2/1977
4.	Colours	10.06.1977	ECM
5.	The New Chautauqua	4/1979	ECM			44
6.	Shadows And Light & Joni Mitchell (2LP)	9/1980	Asylum		63	38
7.	As Falls Wichita, So Fall Wichita Falls & Lyle Mays	9/1980	ECM			50
8.	80/81 (2LP)	10/1980	ECM			89
9.	Works	11/1983	ECM
10.	Rejoicing	5/1984	ECM			116
11.	Song X & Ornette Coleman	5/1986	Geffen
12.	Live In Concert & B.B. King & Dave Brubeck & Heath Brothers	1/1987	Kingdom Jazz
13.	Works II	6/1989	ECM
14.	Pat Metheny	7/1989	Cleo
15.	Question And Answer	7/1990	Geffen			154
16.	Secret Story	7/1992	Geffen			110
17.	I Can See Your House from Here & John Scofield	1993	Khiov Music
18.	Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) & Charlie Haden	1996
19.	Tales from the Hudson & Jack DeJohnette & Michael Brecker	1996
20.	The Sign Of 4 & Derek Bailey	26.05.1997	Knitting Factory
21.	Like Minds & Gary Burton & Chick Corea & Dave Holland & Roy Haynes	09.11.1998	Concord Jazz
22.	Jim Hall & Pat Metheny & Jim Hall	10.05.1999	Telarc
23.	All The Things You Are & Gary Burton & Health Brothers	08.06.1999
24.	A Map Of The World	09.11.1999	Warner Bros
25.	Trio 99>00	08.02.2000	Warner Bros
26.	Trio Live	11/2000	Warner Bros
27.	One Quiet Night	27.05.2003	Warner Brothers			167
28.	Rarum XIV: Selected Recordings	10.02.2004	ECM
29.	The Complete Move to the Groove Session	30.07.2004	Naxos Of America
30.	Move to the Groove & The Heath Brothers	11.07.2006
31.	Metheny Mehldau & Brad Mehldau	12.09.2006	Nonesuch
32.	Quartet & Brad Mehldau	13.03.2007	Nonesuch
33.	Day Trip with Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez	28.01.2008	Nonesuch
34.	Day Trip Live	20.05.2008	Nonesuch
35.	Upojenie & Anna Maria Jopek	07.10.2008	Nonesuch
36.	Orchestrion	22.01.2010	Nonesuch			114
37.	What's It All About	14.06.2011	Nonesuch			125
38.	Jim Hall & Pat Metheny & Jim Hall	01.11.2011	Nonesuch
39.	The Orchestrion Project	27.08.2012	Nonesuch
40.	Tap: Book Of Angels Vol 20	15.05.2013	Tzadik
41.	Essential Collection: Last Train Home	10.03.2015
42.	Hommage to Eberhard Weber & The SWR Big Band & Gary Burton & Jan Garbarek	11.09.2015
43.	The Unity Sessions	18.09.2015	Eagle Rock
44.	Live: Montreal '89 & Charlie Haden & Jack DeJohnette	19.02.2016	Forced Exposure
45.	Live: Tokyo '85	22.04.2016	Hi Hat
46.	Boston Jazz Workshop, September 1976	26.08.2016	Hi Hat
47.	From This Place	2/2020	Nonesuch		90	92
48.	Road To Te Sun	3/2021	Modern
49.	Side Eye NYC - V1.IV	9/2021
50.	Dream Box	6/2023
51.	MoonDial	7/2024	Modern

Lyle Mays:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	As Falls Wichita, So Fall Wichita Falls & Pat Metheny	9/1980	ECM			50
2.	Home & Steve Swallow & Sheila Jordan & Dave Liebman & Steve Kuhn & Bob Moses	12/1980	ECM
3.	Lyle Mays	1985
4.	The New Album	1986
5.	Street Dreams	1989
6.	Fictionary	1993
7.	Solo (Improvisations for Expanded Piano)	13.06.2000	Warner Bros
8.	The Ludwingsburg Concert credited to: Lyle Mays Quartet	06.02.2016	Naxos

Steve Rodby:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Since Forever & Paul McCandless & Mark Walker & Fred Simon	08.09.2009	Naim
2.	Since Forever & Mark Walker & Fred Simon & Paul McCandless	08.09.2009	Naim

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Are You Going With Me / Au Lait	6/1982	ECM
2.	This Is Not America & David Bowie	1/1985	EMI	12	32
3.	Across The Sky (Goldie mixes) / The Roots Of Coincidence (Mr. Spring remix)	29.06.1998	Warner Bros
4.	Disco Supreme Volume 1 (Won (X-Mix) / 24 Hours From Culture (extended version) / Tubular Bells (Cosmix mix) / Fire In My Heart (instrumental dub version) / Slip Away) & The Champs Boys Orchestra & Escape From NY & New Musik & Sunny Place	15.05.2006	Supreme
5.	Slip Away	18.02.2008	Slip Away

Pat Metheny:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Big Chill Limited Edition Sampler (Cafe De Flore / Electric Counterpoint / Promenade Sentimentale / Stella / Robinson Crusoe / Midnight Cowboy) & Vladimir Cosma & Andreas Vollenweider & Art Of Noise & John Barry & Doctor Rockit & Steve Reich	01.03.2004	Universal
2.	Balearica 12 EP (Tony's Song / Slow Beat (dance mix) / The Final Thing (instrumental) / This Is Not America (extended instrumental version)) & David Bowie & Tony G & Escape From New York & Stevie Bender	21.03.2013	Balearica

Videos:

1. We Live Here: Live in Japan - 19.6.2001, Eagle Rock

Awards:

1982 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal Or Instrumental (LP "Offramp")
1983 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal Or Instrumental (LP "Travels")
1984 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal Or Instrumental (LP "First Circle")
1987 Downbeat

- Best Electric Band
- Best Guitar

1987 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal Or Instrumental (LP "Still Life (Talking)")
1988 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Instrumental ("Beyond The Missouri Sky", & Charlie Hadden)
1989 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Fusion Performance (LP "Letter From Home")
1990 Grammy Awards - Best Instrumental Composition (track "Change Of Heart")
1992 Grammy Awards - Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental (LP "Secret Story")
1993 Grammy Awards - Best Contemporary Jazz Performance (Instrumental) (LP "The Road To You")
1995 Grammy Awards - Best Contemporary Jazz Performance ("We Live Here")
1997 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Individual Or Group ("Beyond The Missouri Sky", & Charlie Haden)
1998 Grammy Awards

- Best Rock Instrumental Performance (track "The Roots Of Coincidence")
- Best Contemporary Jazz Performance ("Imaginary Day")

1999 Grammy Awards - Jazz Instrumental Individual Or Group ("Like Minds", & Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland)
2000 Billboard/BET On Jazz Awards

- Best Soundtrack ("A Map Of The World")
- Top Jazz Guitarist

2000 Grammy Awards - Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (track "(Go) Get It ")
2002 Grammy Awards - Best Contemporary Jazz Album ("Speaking Of Now")
2005 Grammy Awards - Best Contemporary Jazz Album ("The Way Up")

WWW Links:

http://www.patmethenygroup.com

Various:

Compilation Appearances:

"Third Stone From The Sun" on Jimi Hendrix Tribute LP "Stone Free" (1993)

appeared on the LP:

Bruce Hornsby: Harbor Lights (4/93, RCA)
Bruce Hornsby: Hot House (8/95, RCA)

Pat Metheny:

appeared on the LP:

Me'shell Ndegeocello: The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (25.9.07, Decca)

Awards:

2003 Grammy Awards - Best New Age Album ("One Quiet Night")
2011 Grammy Awards - Best New Age Album ("What's It All About")

Mark Egan:

appeared on the LP:

Laurie Anderson: Strange Angels (1989, Warner Bros)
Jonathan Elias: Requiem For The Americas - Songs From The Lost World (1989, Enigma)

Lyle Mays:

appeared on the LP:

Joni Mitchell: Shadows And Light (9/80, Asylum)

Press References:

Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1997	12		109	Jazz Café	album review
1998	6		84	Live - Agharta Prague Jazz	gig review