Pat Metheny – Dream Box/Moondial Solo Tour 2024

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PAT METHENY

DREAM BOX/MOONDIAL TOUR

Guitar grandmaster Pat Metheny on a major ‘Dream Box/Moondial’ solo tour in Europe in fall 2024 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 “jazz’s most industrious creative force”, 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, John Zorn or Ornette Coleman, David Bowie, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell or Meshell Ndegeocello, Jim Hall or John Scofield, Milton Nascimento or Charlie Haden. In addition to the duet album “Beyond the Missouri Sky” with the latter bassist, it is Metheny’s solo albums that are still the most popular with critics and fans today. In the recent past, Metheny performed “solo” mainly with his “Orchestrion”, a multi-instrumental machine that he controlled live and directly, but at his “Dream Box/Moondial” solo concerts, which he will also play in Germany in 2024, the audience will primarily experience Pat Metheny and his very intimate and always beautiful and virtuoso guitar playing. If there is one quality that defines Pat Metheny’s musical philosophy and quality, it is listening. “Over time, I’ve come to realize that making music is more about listening than playing,” he said in an interview, even describing listening as the “key to everything good in music”. He started playing the trumpet himself at the age of eight, just like his grandfather, father, mother and older brother before him. Marching music was a hit in his home town of Lee’s Summit in Missouri, as well as country and western. Even back then, Patrick Bruce Metheny was an attentive listener who soaked up everything that came his way and, above all, made no stylistic distinctions. “For me, music is a big thing,” he once said. “I never know exactly what people mean when I hear them talk about music, which is often based on a description of the more superficial components of one cultural aspect versus another. Growing up in a fairly rural place, I didn’t have a very acute awareness of why the Beatles should be considered different from Bach or Ornette or Miles or Stravinsky. I just instinctively reacted to the fact that some music was certainly great.” Nevertheless, his particular enthusiasm for jazz came in the first five seconds of hearing Miles Davis or Ornette Coleman for the first time, depending on which interview you believe. “I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever heard,” he told Downbeat. At the age of twelve, Pat Methen switched from trumpet to guitar, listened to the history of this instrument and discovered his love for Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Johns Abercrombie and Scofield as well as Jimi Hendrix. Vibraphonist Gary Burton was the first to discover that he had developed his very own style and sound, and he recruited the then twenty-year-old into his band in 1974. The following year, the rest of the music world also made his acquaintance with the release of his debut album “Bright Size Life”, produced by Manfred Eicher for ECM alongside Jaco Pastorius and Bob Moses. The rest is very lively and constantly evolving music history. Pat Metheny brings his musical evolution and the wealth of experience that has developed from it to every one of his concerts – and live to the point. “I think that concerts in our modern world are one of those occasions when people really give their full attention to the music,” he has said, describing himself as a musician who decides in the moment to play exactly what he himself would like to hear. “When people come to a gig where I’m playing, I take it as a real compliment, but also as a real responsibility. I become something like their tour guide and take them somewhere to show them things that are new and hopefully meaningful.” Every minute of every performance is serious business for him – and more of a time marker than a snapshot. “Most of my life has been spent being a bandleader and bringing musicians together who can realize what I was working on at the time,” explains Pat Metheny. “But along the way, I’ve also released about ten different kinds of solo records.” The concerts on the “Dream Box/Moondial” tour will reflect these very different solo productions in different ways and “delve pretty deeply into all the different ways I’ve played solo over the years.” Pat Metheny himself announces that it will be “a pretty extensive and challenging evening for him with a lot of variety and different approaches”. For those who listen, it will also be a treat – and certainly unique. 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