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Pat Metheny was born in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, a Kansas City suburb, on August 12, 1954. He started playing the trumpet when he was 8.  At 12, he switched to guitar. He was playing professional gigs in Kansas City by the time he was 15.
Metheny briefly attended the University of Miami. After his first semester, [...]

This is from a 1997 performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Cameroonian bassist and singer, Richard Bona’s CD Tiki is one of my favorites. It makes me feel great. He plays a lot of the instruments on it himself. The rhythms on the tracks are complex and exciting. The vocals are great.
The first time I heard this CD, I was sitting on the [...]