When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jimmy Katz In the parlance of our time, Pat Metheny is a disruptor. Ever since he picked ...

Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism.

For those who don’t know, Pat Metheny is one of the preeminent jazz guitarists of his, or any other, generation. He is the rare jazz musician who is able to sell out auditoriums. Case in point: On his ...

For years, Pat Metheny couldn't find the right guitar strings. He had a specific need - nylon strings for an unconventional tuning on a baritone guitar. Last fall, he found them on Amazon, and they ...

Touring behind his 2023 solo electric guitar album, “Dream Box,” Pat Metheny started a new sonic adventure, performing an occasional song on a new instrument: a custom-made nylon-string baritone ...

Pat Metheny is a generous performer. Over the course of three hours at the Paramount Theatre Sunday night, he took a near-capacity audience on a high-flying trip that soared through realms of jazz, ...

When a musician of Pat Metheny's pedigree writes, "From This Place is one of the records I have been waiting to make my whole life," it seems prudent to listen. Listening to From This Place is like ...

Jazz at the Lobero will present Pat Metheny’s Dream Box Tour, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30. After a globe-trotting 33-stop tour this past spring and summer with his Side-Eye band, American guitarist, ...

Pat Metheny performs during the Jazz Foundation of America. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/ Courtesy of Getty Images for Jazz Foundation Of America) Two hours of musical mastery from one of jazz’s most ...