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Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City in 1954. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable on-the-bandstand experience at an unusually young age.

Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. The young Missouri native displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility - a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing and the blues. With the release of his first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional "jazz guitar" sound for a new generation of players.

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Pat Metheny, Side-Eye III+

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Bassist, composer, bandleader, and educator Dezron Douglas has established himself as a major force in contemporary creative music. A protégé of the great Jackie McLean, the Downbeat Magazine 2019 Rising Star is known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Cyrus Chestnut, David Murray, Louis Hayes, Enrico Rava and also with piano legends George Cables, Eric Reed, Mulgrew Miller and Benny Green. In 2021, he joined the Trey Anastasio Band. Expect to hear music from ATALAYA and new original music as well as some spontaneous improvised music.

Dezron Douglas

The Underground at Jaffe Drive

NEA Jazz Master and 20-time Grammy®-winning guitar icon Pat Metheny presents his latest band project: Side-Eye, featuring pianist and keyboardist James Francies and drummer Joe Dyson.

PAT METHENY SIDE-EYE with James Francies & Joe Dyson

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park

“There is almost no way to replicate exactly what is on the record with just the trio, nor will that be the explicit goal on this next round,” Metheny says. “But the material on the record can be played a lot of different ways, which is always a good sign. I am already thinking ahead to the next stage of the Side-Eye thing, and the broader palette of this record plus my thoughts about what’s next gave me the idea of bringing in an incredible young bassist from California, Jermaine Paul, and the percussionist and vocalist Leonard Patton, who is a musician I have wanted to include in my thing for years. But the core of the band will remain Chris Fishman, Joe Dyson, and me — continuing what we have been working on together on the bandstand and in the studio during this really interesting musical time we have shared together.”

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Joe Dyson

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 18, 2026

Pat Metheny Side-Eye III+ · Count Basie Center for the Arts

Past events

Apr 4, 2026

Pat Metheny, Side-Eye III+ · Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Jun 30, 2024

Dezron Douglas · Jazz at Lincoln Center

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