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An Evening with Pat Metheny at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Courtesy of Michael Ricci | Posted on February 2, 2018
Where
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
14 Castle St
Great Barrington, MA
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When
Thu, August 2, 2018
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Pat Metheny
guitarAbout
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w/ Antonio Sanchez, Linda Oh & Gwilym Simcock
Pat Metheny was born in Lee’s Summit, MO on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched 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 experience at an unusually young age. Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility -a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues...