Pat Metheny

Bright Size Life

Pat Metheny · 1976

Bright Size LifeBright Size LifePat Metheny · 1976 (1976) was MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー's debut on ECM, recorded at 21. He chose JacoJaco Pastoriusジャコ・パストリアス, then still unknown. This encounter became the starting point for both their careers.

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker · 1987

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

Michael BreckerMichael Breckerマイケル・ブレッカー appeared on approximately 900 recordings — not just jazz, but pop and rock sessions where someone needed saxophone done right. He appeared on Pat MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー's 80/8180/81Pat Metheny · 1980 (1980) and released his own debut in 1987. He died of leukemia in 2007 at 57, having won 15 Grammy Awards.

— Michael Brecker, Wikipedia, 2024

Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group · 1978

August 1981, Stadtpark, Hamburg. The Pat Metheny GroupPat Metheny GroupPat Metheny Group · 1978 on the eve of the Offramp album — with Lyle Mays and Nana Vasconcelos, the signature group sound essentially fully formed.

— Pat Metheny Group — Hamburg 1981, 1981

Tales from the Hudson

Michael Brecker · 1996

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker · 1987

Pilgrimage

Michael Brecker · 2007

Pat Metheny first heard Michael Brecker's tenor not on a jazz record but on a pop hit pouring out of a car radio at a big intersection. The two would later become close collaborators — but the introduction came over the airwaves, through pop.

— Statement stmt-pat-metheny-on-michael-brecker

Tales from the Hudson

Michael Brecker · 1996

80/81

Pat Metheny · 1980

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker · 1987

Angelus

Milton Nascimento · 1993

On 80/81 (1980), Michael Brecker — then the most in-demand studio saxophonist in New York, and heard as a fusion player — is trading with Dewey Redman and Charlie Haden, both out of the free jazz world. Pat Metheny wrote all of the material.

— Statement stmt-jack-dejohnette-on-pat-metheny

Tales from the Hudson

Michael Brecker · 1996

MethenyPat Methenyパット・メセニー joined Tales from the HudsonTales from the HudsonMichael Brecker · 1996 at Brecker's invitation, contributing guitar on two tracks and co-producing. His guitar synthesis creates a striking tonal dialogue with Brecker's EWI.