Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau

Guitarist, composer, and bandleader Pat Metheny is a consummate stylist and risk-taker, his musical signature melds a singular, euphoric sense of harmony with Afro-Latin and Brazilian sounds, rock, funk, global folk musics, and, of course, jazz. His 1976 debut, Bright Size Life, and the self-titled Pat Metheny Group two years later, resonated with audiences and critics for their euphoric lyricism and rhythmic ideas. 1981's As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Fall, with keyboardist Lyle Mays, topped the jazz charts. The PMG won their first Grammy for 1982's Offramp. The Metheny ...