TKA Artists and Special Projects - Flipbook - Page 43
NEA Jazz Master
Winner of 20 Grammy®Awards
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36 Grammy Award Nominations
Royal Swedish Academy of Music
DownBeat Hall of Fame
3 Gold Records
Pat Metheny is launching a new playing environment called Side-Eye for this upcoming season. He
describes this new project as a community of like-minded musicians. “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,” Pat explains. “From my earliest days in Kansas City onward, I was the beneficiary of so many older
musicians giving me a platform to develop my thing through the prism of their experience and the particular
demands of what their music implied. I have been feeling like I wanted to have a specific platform to focus on
some of the many younger musicians I have enjoyed recently who I have felt some kind of a kinship with. I find
myself inspired by how they deal with the musical challenges that come with the territory of some of my older
tunes. This band setting is what that will be all about.” This edition of Side-Eye will feature pianist and
keyboardist James Francies and drummer Marcus Gilmore.