Not many musicans who can speak like this. Another level.

Not sure if people are aware, but Pat is one of the greatest musicians to ever have lived. Just saying.

One of the great jazz musicians, creative artists of our time. Always striving, always exploring … just a great, notable musician. I love all his interviews on KZfaq. A great opportunity on the internet.

Wow what did I just hear. I think very few people are as articulate, insightful and down to earth as this guy.

When...Pat Metheny plays an instrument called spoken word...it still sounds amazing.

He’s a gem of a person. So kind

Been a superfan since 1980(gasp)… seen Pat,Lyle,Steve, etc dozens of times. Met him twice. Truly grateful to have been in the presence of such genius.

Intelligent, articulate and humble - lovely talk. I saw Metheny and Lyle Mays in concert in London in 1989. Still rates as the best and most exciting, stimulating concert I have ever been to.

What an articulate guy!

what a thoughtful and well spoken gentleman Pat is. His white album got me thru college years ago.

I spent 35 years as a teacher. Improv was essential along with listening.

This is rolling off his tounge and I don’t think he’s using a teleprompter….that’s improvisation!!!! A master speaks….

Incredibly articulate and insightful speech - lots of food for thought for performing musicians, and for that matter, any artist that strives to be better every day, no matter what level they're already at. Mindfulness combined with hard, consistent work and focus to get to spend more time more often where everything aligns and there's no other place to be but in the zone...

Watching Pat makes me think of Lyle and I get sad. Metheny, Towner, Weber, etc. these guys can't be replaced.

I miss living in Boston! Seems like I saw him jogging downtown before his gig like yesterday. I got to see Pat perform at least a half dozen times and I became friends with his guitar tech Carola (anybody know her and reconnect us??). Anyway I’d see guitar players regularly and I’d think “thats the best guitar player I’ve ever seen” and then I’d see Pat. Unbelievable!!! The most connected guy I’ve ever seen! He’s the PERFECT guy to have talk at this thing!!!

When you don’t know something, it’s abstract, it’s improvising. When you know something, it’s not improvising, it’s repeating. That said, everything we improvise is next level discovery based from a launching point of what we already know.

This Guy is a American Treasure ❤love his music. Lyle Mays in the early days was his peak!

I get to be a visual/paintings improviser for many years now, so grateful for the chance. When I listen to Pat and other wonderful improvisers, it lifts my creative ability to another level. Thanks Pat.

Amazingly professorial in delivery and a good one at that! That was profound to say the least!

Loved Metheny since I was a kid. Obvious his talent is far beyond his own words.

Wow! What a way to express himself! So articulate and to the point. Love his playing, just amazing.

He is a very interesting individual and a Master in the art of guitar and music! Having seen Pat several times in the Last 20 years I recently started exploring works of his that I somehow missed over the years and I must say the Travels album is just phenomenal always had the record in my collection but just never fully listened to it from start to finish, Phase Dance and San Lorenzo are just wonderful musical arrangements, I have been playing guitar for 30 years and I don't think I will ever be able to play pieces like that and I have been told by others I am a great player and I am extremely hard on myself and self-conscious always have been and don't know why maybe my upbringing? Pat, I look forward to seeing you again in September thanks for all the great music and bands you have assembled over the years.

And now, for the commentary, Rihana!

One of the best ”speakchs” from Metheny so far

This is INCREDIBLE.

Always loved me some Pat Mackelhaney...

Pat Metheny is so aware one of a kind with a mind

Top speech, very cool 😎

El gran Maestro, Pat.

As eloquent a speaker as any, including his own guitar playing.

Wow, that was great.

Gamma brainwaves 🙏🏼 and sometimes beyond 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Pat Metheny is an alien! A true genius!

Gives a good speech too…❤

Not to mention, Pat has also said that in jazz if you don’t know the bebop language, it doesn’t sound interesting. He said the first few years his playing sounded bad but it just takes time. And really really listening well.

Indeed..

What a consciousness on music...

Pat is a Human Giant

“Relatively esoteric”❤

You have understood all that the West has offered to humanity. Next is going to the East, that’s what you are looking for my friend, and you can’t find that in the West, just as you can’t find chordal harmonies in the music of the East. You won’t have harmonies to help you shape your improvisation, you will only have you.

No entendi casi nada, pero es el mejor musico que escuché

Music from SILENCE (pure consciousness)

this is posted elsewhere in full resolution on youtube...

What I’d do to meet this legendary music and human being…

I can’t play like him But I’ve got his play face down pat.

I started out rapping at 15 , i picked up the bass at 22 and i just play wut i hear

Wow, this is amazing. I've been playing for roughly 25 years and am 37. I never looked up jazz, past typical Django Reinhardt and even though could play his imporovisations, I never understood what was actually happening or fully grasped that these songs and melodies are being made up on the spot. Fast forward to a week ago and I'm going nuts on Rick Beato's channel. Just absorbing everything. I find out about Pat, Oscar peterson, Joe Pass, Keith Jarrett. There, Keith Jarrett, stop... A clip called the most beautiful 2 minutes of music by Beato. Lauanne by Jarrett. I experienced what Pat is talking about here and have sounded like a madman who has found god asking others if they knew the same esoteric feeling. Kind of like if the revelations and realisations felt on dmt mushrooms or acid could be translated into sound this is it, This is how that would sound. After Jarrett plucks the inner strings of the piano as an intro and starts playing. Within a minute or less, I am taken away. Time is bent, I experience the sound of ALL music within a minute, almost like the ultimate mash up, not needing many notes though to tell a very full story. This is the closest thing to magick I have ever experienced again besides dmt, but just a equally baffling in it's strangeness, beauty and wisdom. I don't know how to describe it the same way Pat did. I am just so happy I'm not going insane and what I have been feeling when playing and listening is real. Thanks for posting!

funny he talks about improvisation, but his tunes tend to be some of the most highly orchestrated songs in the world of jazz music.

ok but uh.... 4 min in and I know nothing more than I did before clicking start. Now, I will improvise and decide... hmmm should I keep watching and risk another 6 min or just click off and go play some guitar???

Now we can create a robot with all of Pat's info.

Pat is on the fringe of the astral plane and sometimes he sticks his head onto the other side.

8:19 wow, so politics and other factors become a conscious component of your sound, in Pats view.

He speaks like he plays

Pat needs to hear Kepler's Harmonices Mundi. 😂

I found the TV to phone transfer distracting. Here’s the original: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r85xlbGnls2uhGw.html

I expected to hear something good, but this was better than! "I'm a music fan first" - I heard Paul McCartney say the same thing in an interview many years ago, it seems, & I suspect, just about all the great musicians feel that way.

👏🙏☯️

Ask him about Kenny G. 😂😂😂

Necessarily abstract.

The essence of what it took him 10 mins. to say could have been condensed to about a minute a half!

Does he come from Alpha Centauri? Is he made of dark matter? Does his mind pulse out of a Quasar? Great man

Strange he never mentioned musicality and having a good ear.

My favorite Part Metheny quote: "compared to Bach we all suck"

Everyone's free to express themselves except.....Kenny G. Haha!

Ahh , I fully understand the geometric logic he is trying to get across. And he would have found the key and proved the sailors were pilfering the strawberries.

Nothing new. Pure Plato's ideas. No answers, just old questions

Is it just me ,, or does Pat look a bit like Jack Nicholson in a Tina Turner wig?

oh shut up pat!!😂😂

That Pat Metheny recording has a pretty crappy mastering

i think he is "stone" he went in to the bushes