Pat Metheny, a native son of Lee's Summit, Missouri, outside of Kansas City, will be among the inductees into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Lawrence, Kansas, this Saturday. The honor comes just two weeks after the Pat Metheny Trio held a sold-out fund-raising concert near Lee's Summit for the Metheny Music Foundation, which supports music education in area schools. For more information, visit kansascity.com.

This past Tuesday, the Trio brought its extensive US tour to a close with a sold-out show in Pat's adopted hometown of New York City. New York Times' jazz critic Nate Chinen reports that the tour closer at Town Hall covered many bases while always maintaining its focus: "Mr. Metheny's trio was playing jazz," he writes, "the genuine article."

Of Pat's performance, Chinen says:

There was marvelous concentration in his playing and an orchestral fullness to his sound ... Mr. Metheny improvised throughout with passion and erudition, combining mercurial fretboard runs with more limpid, searching phrases. And he gave his partners equal say.

Those partners, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, shone both as individual players and as part of a cohesive team they have built over years of playing together. Chinen finds:

Each of these performances ... conveyed the message that intensity can take the form of a whisper as well as a roar ... [T]heir brilliant new studio album, Day Trip, was recorded in a single day in 2005---and their rapport has strengthened and deepened.

To read the review, visit nytimes.com.

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