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List of the best Pat Metheny albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Pat Metheny discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Pat Metheny albums can be found at the top of the list. A Missouri-born fusion jazz composer and guitarist, he has many side projects, but his primary focus is with the eponymous Pat Metheny Group. The band has had various members and has taken several hiatuses since first forming in 1977, though co-composer and keyboardist Lyle Mays has remained a fixture.
To make voting for your favorite records easier for you, we haven't included Pat Metheny singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Pat Metheny album isn't ranked highly enough, be sure to vote for it so it gets the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Pat Metheny album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.
If you want to know the best Pat Metheny album of all time, this list will answer your question. It features albums like New Chautauqua, Question and Answer, We Live Here, Zero Tolerance for Silence, and Like Minds. This list of popular Pat Metheny CDs has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion.
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20975Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Tracks: Last Train Home, Distance, (It's Just) Talk
Length (mins): 00:42:33
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion, World music, Smooth jazz, Latin jazz
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16553Letter From Home
1989Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Tracks: Have You Heard, 45/8, Spring Ain't Here
Length (mins): 01:01:50
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion, Latin jazz, Crossover jazz
- 314845
First Circle
1984 - 416255
- 516758
Offramp
1982Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Tracks: Au Lait, The Bat, Part II
Length (mins): 00:42:28
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 6
Artist: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays
Tracks: Estupenda graça, Ozark, Ozark
Length (mins): 01:13:19
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 716055
Secret Story
1992Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Finding and Believing, See the World, Rain River
Length (mins): 01:16:30
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion, World music, Crossover jazz, Ethno jazz
- 813649
Bright Size Life
1976Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Missouri Uncompromised, Unquity Road, Midwestern Nights Dream
Length (mins): 00:37:12
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 912141
Travels
1983 - 1011343
We Live Here
1995Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Tracks: Red Sky, To the End of the World, The Girls Next Door
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 1111042
American Garage
1979Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Tracks: (Cross the) Heartland, American Garage, The Search
Length (mins): 00:35:15
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 1210442
Imaginary Day
1997Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Tracks: The Roots of Coincidence, The Awakening, Into the Dream
Length (mins): 01:04:41
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
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Artist: Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny
Tracks: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme), First Song (For Ruth)
Label: Verve Music Group
Genres (Music): Jazz
- 1411353
The Way Up
2005Artist: Pat Metheny Group, Gregoire Maret
Tracks: Part Three, Part Two, Part One
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 159339
Speaking of Now
2002Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Tracks: Afternoon, As It Is, Another Life
Length (mins): 01:12:05
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 167526
Watercolors
1977Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Suite: II. Legend of the Fountain, Watercolors, Icefire
Length (mins): 00:41:54
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion
- 177129
80/81
1980Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Turnaround, Open, Every Day (I Thank You)
Genres (Music): Jazz
- 186830
Artist: Dave Holland, Roy Haynes, Pat Metheny
Tracks: Solar, Change of Heart, Question and Answer
Genres (Music): Jazz
- 196934
New Chautauqua
1979Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Daybreak, Long-Ago Child / Fallen Star, New Chautauqua
Length (mins): 00:38:33
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion, Folk jazz
- 205632
Kin (← →)
2014 - 214726
Day Trip
2008Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Son of Thirteen, When We Were Free, The Red One
Genres (Music): Jazz
- 224428
Artist: Pat Metheny, John Scofield
Tracks: Message to My Friend, You Speak My Language, No Matter What
Length (mins): 01:09:46
Label: Blue Note Records
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion, Post-bop, Crossover jazz
- 234734
Rejoicing
1984Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Humpty Dumpty, Rejoicing, Waiting for an Answer
Genres (Music): Jazz
24205The Road To You
- 254434
One Quiet Night
2003Artist: Pat Metheny
Tracks: Peace Memory, Over on 4th Street, North to South
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Genres (Music): Jazz, Jazz fusion, Folk jazz, Crossover jazz
