Credits
Photo and source credits
PatMethenyMusic.com is an independent fan site written by Sean Fenlon since 2005. It is not affiliated with Pat Metheny, his management or his labels.
Wikimedia Commons
Each photo below is credited exactly as its Wikimedia Commons license requires. Share-alike (BY-SA) photos are used uncropped and unaltered apart from resizing for the web, and they remain under the same license.
- Pat Metheny Unity Group era, L'Olympia, Paris, June 3, 2014. Photo: Cristiano Medeiros Dalbem from Porto Alegre, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) (license). Resized for the web.
- Pat Metheny Group, The Way Up tour, Brighton, England, 2005. Thegn at English Wikipedia, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for the web.
- Orchestrion tour, Grand Prairie, Texas, April 13, 2010. Photo: Steve Rainwater, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0) (license). Resized; otherwise unaltered.
- Pat Metheny playing acoustic guitar outdoors, September 2, 2012. Photo: PaulCHebert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (license). Resized; otherwise unaltered.
- Pat Metheny with Unity, San Javier Jazz Festival, 2018. Photo: Tsaorin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (license). Resized; otherwise unaltered.
- Orchestrion tour, Saschall, Florence, March 16, 2010. Photo: Riccardo Altavilla, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) (license). Resized for the web.
- Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, DC (2009). Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) (license). Resized; otherwise unaltered.
- The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland (2023). Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (license). Resized; otherwise unaltered.
- Filene Center interior, Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia (2009). NPS, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for the web.
- Side-Eye III, San Javier Jazz Festival, July 22, 2026 (stage view). Photo: Esaenzdetejada, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (license). Resized for the web.
- Side-Eye III, San Javier Jazz Festival, July 22, 2026 (Pat Metheny). Photo: Esaenzdetejada, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (license). Resized for the web.
- Side-Eye III, San Javier Jazz Festival, July 22, 2026 (full band). Photo: Esaenzdetejada, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (license). Resized for the web.
- Pat Metheny at KJAZ radio, Alameda, California, December 1980. Photo: Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (license). Resized; otherwise unaltered.
- The Linda Manzer 42-string Pikasso guitar on display, Museum of Making Music, 2013. Photo: Lana from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) (license). Resized for the web.
- Pat Metheny with Gwilym Simcock, Linda May Han Oh and Antonio Sánchez, San Javier Jazz Festival, July 6, 2018. Photo: Tsaorin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (license). Resized; otherwise unaltered.
- Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore, March 14, 2012. Photo: Smallbones, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) (license). Resized for the web.
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Sean Fenlon’s archive
Concert, marquee, backstage and memorabilia photos without a Commons credit come from Sean Fenlon’s own archive, and all rights are reserved. Photos labeled “AI-restored from Sean’s original photo” were cleaned up and upscaled from Sean’s originals with Real-ESRGAN and GFPGAN. Restoration only: nothing is added, removed or invented. Location and camera metadata are stripped from every published image.
The 1994 CompuServe printouts on Front Row were not AI-processed. The photos of them were only rotated, cropped and contrast-adjusted for legibility, and both parties’ CompuServe IDs are blacked out. The transcriptions beside them are the primary text.
The Wolf Trap backstage clip, “Meeting Pat Metheny Backstage,” is Sean’s own YouTube Short, published on his channel @SeanFenlon.
Pat Metheny’s statement on Lyle Mays
Pat Metheny’s February 2020 public statement is reproduced with attribution and a link to his Facebook page and patmetheny.com.
Album information
Release years, labels, personnel and track lists follow Pat Metheny’s official discography. Cover art is not reproduced on this site.
Typefaces
Fraunces (Undercase Type) and Inter (Rasmus Andersson), both under the SIL Open Font License, self-hosted.