It is one thing to attain popularity as a musician, but it is another to receive the kind of acclaim Pat Metheny has garnered from critics and peers. Metheny has won 20 Grammy Awards (the only artist to have won awards in ten different categories), was the recipient of the 2018 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship Award, and was inducted into the Downbeat Hall of Fame becoming only the fourth guitarist to be included and its youngest member.
Pat Metheny is launching a new playing environment called “Side Eye” for this upcoming tour. Pat explains “I wanted to create an ongoing setting to feature a rotating cast of new and upcoming musicians who have particularly caught my interest along the way.
"His ebullient, action-packed style of jazz is now a genre unto itself and his improvising remains some of the most impassioned and engaging on the planet." - Rolling Stone