Showmanship, like most things, seems to come naturally to Pat Metheny. As a virtuoso guitarist, an expansive composer and, above all, an inveterate searcher, he knows how to bring human scale and feeling to the most outsize sort of spectacle. He can also pull off the inverse, making reflective solitude seem grand and overwhelming, like a balloon...
In the middle of a World Science Festival panel on Saturday night, the guitarist Pat Metheny took a sudden U-turn from the program he had planned. Instead of performing one of his innovative compositions, plucked from any of the phases of his career as a style-shifting jazz omnivore, Mr. Metheny, performing with the bassist Larry Grenadier, decided...
AFTER some 120 logistically grueling, technologically challenging and emotionally exhilarating concerts on his Orchestrion Tour, the famed guitarist and budding robotics whiz Pat Metheny was still trying to explain in plain language just what he was up to with his latest and most unusual venture. ''The first thing you have to compare it to,'' he...