Pat Metheny is the most influential and successful guitarist in the jazz world today - and far beyond. It doesn't matter whether the musician from Missouri, who has won his twenty Grammys in a world-record twelve different categories, even thinks in terms of genres such as "jazz". In the almost seventy years of his life and fifty years of his career, this "most industrious creative force in jazz", as the New York Times called him over ten years ago, has played his way into the Olympus not only with his various bands, but also alongside artists as diverse as Steve Reich and Ornette Coleman, David Bowie, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell and Meshell Ndegeocello. In addition to the duet album "Beyond the Missouri Sky" with bassist Charlie Haden, it is Metheny's solo albums that are still the most popular with critics and fans today.
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