Pat Metheny Group — Music Videos

The Pat Metheny Group was the American ensemble founded around guitarist Pat Metheny and keyboardist and composer Lyle Mays. Its recordings combine jazz improvisation with extended composition, electronic textures, and influences from several forms of popular and international music.

The group’s sound developed across albums including Offramp, Still Life (Talking), and Letter from Home. “Proof” appears on Speaking of Now, released in 2002. The Way Up, released in 2005, takes the ensemble’s interest in long-form musical development into a single extended work.

Listen for the interaction between a clear, singable theme and the layers growing around it. Metheny’s guitar is one voice within an arrangement where keyboards, bass, percussion, and vocal or instrumental colours can gradually change the scale of the same melodic idea.