"Summer" is a frequent shorthand for “loud and bright," but the span of the day can include a whole lot of tones more subtle and colorful. This is the scene Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau paint on this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I kind of joke that there are two kinds of records that I make: “documentary” type records—a few folks in a studio, play the tune ...

The jazz band at Manhattan's Legacy Studios is swinging: piano, vibes, bass, two guitars, percussion and drums in fast, syncopated flow. It's playing an effortlessly melodic piece that could only have ...

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 ...

Among music composers, there's always been a desire to hear their works performed exactly as conceived. It's an impulse that helped popularize the player piano 100 years ago, synthesizers in the 1960s ...

Leonard Patton’s debut tour this year as a member of 20-time Grammy Award-winning guitar giant and composer Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye III+ band is a dream come true for the award-winning San Diego singer ...