But it is Mr Metheny, the band's maestro, who is its centre of gravity.
Then a few weeks later the Guardian's New Band of The Day maestro Paul Lester featured them.
Monkeytown Records bosses Modeselektor, Wu-Tang Clan legend RZA (featuring his live band Stone Mecca), and Detroit maestro Kyle Hall are among the names to be added to 2016's Movement festival in Detroit, as confirmed today in phase two of the festival lineup announcement.
Standing beside his leather-clad backing band 3RDEYEGIRL, the diminutive pop maestro thanked London for making him feel "extra loved" and handed out the best British female award to an awestruck Ellie Goulding.
After the band's split, Clapton dismissed its "maestro bullshit", but tonight, he seems worryingly reconciled to it.
Not even the music, from Stephin Merritt, the dour maestro of the indie band Magnetic Fields, can make a difference.
A marching band encountered while working with the maestro of epic video art, Matthew Barney, inspired Shara Worden's latest indie dance album.
The trumpeter BRIAN LYNCH has been playing in the band led by the Latin-jazz maestro EDDIE PALMIERI for years, but just recently Mr. Lynch reversed the relationship, inviting Mr. Palmieri to collaborate on a record of his own music.
PAGE B2 A Slow Route to Maestro B5 ARTS A BAND MAKES ITS PITCH For a Plague o' Both Houses The Democratic and Republican presidential contenders both have their supporters in the music world.
A CDO can play the role of a maestro to the existing band of data analysts in government, and can also provide the vision and intellectual leadership needed to take data efforts from haphazard to superb.
This band makes the Spice Girls look like maestros, and we find the comparisons to Girls Aloud frankly insulting Pencils skirts Back this spring.
