PAT METHENY
Nick Mellor offers an insight into the jazz great’s 16th-note lines, and his approach to improvising over static Minor and Dominant 7th chords.
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After releasing his now classic debut album, Bright Size Life in 1976, Pat Metheny entered the 80s ready to rise to the status of jazz and fusion legend. His string of albums presented under the banner of The Pat Metheny Group included 1982’s Grammy-winning Offramp, and First Circle from two years later. The band recorded a further eight albums over the next two decades after a crucial move to the Geffen label in 1986.