Award-winning guitarist Pat Metheny believes young players should study the tradition but try to look forward as much as possible, writes Ashleigh Wilson - theaustralian.news.com.au
March 03, 2006
Pat Metheny takes a deep breath and sighs.
"Any kind of discussion about genre gets to the point where my eyes sort of glaze over. It's kind of a non-issue," he says. "Every couple of years, somebody invents a new way of describing things and runs it up the flagpole to see if anybody salutes it. In my case, I've seen at least 10 or 12 different banners run up the flagpole for different tunes, and none of them have anything to do with me."
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