Pat Metheny – And I Love Her (The Beatles)

Pat Metheny – And I Love Her (The Beatles)

“The Beatles were huge for me. Without them, I don’t know if I even would have become a musician or a guitar player. When their hits started coming out, I was 8 and 9 years old and it had a tremendous impact on me. I saw the movie “A Hard Day’s Night” multiple times when it came out and I always loved that song. It is kind of impossible to imagine doing a record like this without including at least one Beatles song.” – Pat Metheny

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About Pat Metheny

Patrick Brucce Metheny, the real name of guitarist and composer Pat Metheny (Lee’s Summit, Missouri; August 12, 1954), was considered a child prodigy from childhood. His brother, trumpeter Mike Metheny, introduced him to jazz, and at age 12 he picked up a guitar for the first time.

After developing his technique at an astonishing speed, studying classic jazz masters such as guitarists Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian, at age 15 he won a scholarship for talented young musicians donated by the magazine “Downbeat” and then entered, also on a scholarship, the University of Miami. Shortly after, at 19 years old, he was already teaching guitar at the prestigious “Berklee School of Music” in Boston, and among his students were Al Di Meola and Mike Stern.

At the University of Miami, Pat Metheny met the later legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius. In 1975, Metheny, Pastorius, and drummer Bob Moses recorded the first Pat Metheny-led album, “Bright Size Life,” for the ECM label. But it wasn’t until vibraphonist Gary Burton, whom he had met at Berklee, asked him to join his band that Pat Metheny began to gain some recognition among his peers and the specialized public.

Two years later, with the arrival of keyboardist Lyle Mays, the idea of ​​forming a group began to germinate, which was completed with the addition of bassist Mark Egan and drummer Dan Gottlieb.

The “Pat Metheny Group,” its current lineup, quickly became very popular—except among jazz purists—for its complex and appealing fusion of jazz and folk. In the 1980s, in addition to recording some highly valuable jazz works, such as “Offramp” (ECM-1981) and “Rejoicing” (ECM-1984), and even recurrent albums such as First Circle, Pat Metheny left the ECM label and went on to record for EMI first and then for “Geffen,” a label more oriented toward pop and rock. By the early 1980s, Pat Metheny’s musical image was already formed and consolidated.

Pat Metheny is credited with having played with such jazz greats as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, and Jack DeJohnette. He has also won numerous Grammy Awards and is considered one of the great guitarists of contemporary jazz. His extensive and prolific discography includes: “Offramps” (1981), “Travels” (1982); “First Circle” (1984); “Song X” (with Ornette Coleman, 1985); “Still Life” (Talking) (1987); “Question and Anvers” (1989) and “We Live Here” (1995).