I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted
Pat MethenyI think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Pat MethenyI don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
Pat Metheny