Pat Metheny

In the organizer's words:

Pat Metheny has been one of the most influential guitarists in modern jazz for decades - a truly exceptional musician who combines technical mastery, inexhaustible curiosity and powerful expression like no other. In June 2026, the multi-award-winning artist will be coming to Germany for a series of selected JazzNights concerts, stopping off in Flensburg, Lübeck, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Dortmund, Freiburg, Nuremberg and Frankfurt.

At the center of these shows is Pat Metheny's new album "Side-Eye III+", his first studio album in six years. For this album, he has expanded his core line-up, consisting of himself, Chris Fishman (piano/keyboards) and Joe Dyson (drums), to include bassist Jermaine Paul and percussionist and singer Leonard Patton. For Metheny, this five-piece line-up represents a glimpse into the future of his Side-Eye project. Since the result of "Side-Eye III+" recorded in the studio cannot be satisfactorily reproduced in the trio format, he gratefully accepted the challenge of finding other approaches to the new material. Metheny fans know how much creative energy this unleashes in him, so his live audience can look forward to some truly great moments!