PAT METHENY - SIDE EYE NYC

“So, I’d come up with a name, but this time, the name has a sort of mandate behind it,” he said. “I decided to use newer, younger musicians that I think are really great. And I expect the group to change. It’s not going to be one thing, it’s going to be a lot of different things. Hence, this record is ‘V1’ — version one — to say that I’m looking to have a lot of different versions of what that group can be.”

By his own admission, Metheny doesn’t shy away from iterations with his bands, simply because each ensemble, regardless of configuration, is fundamentally the same to him. Under his aegis, he said, all of his groups function in a like manner, playing music that he’s written, with only rare exceptions.