Pat Metheny’s latest record, touring as a one-man band, and coming to Lexington.

One might suspect that in listening to his newest album, “Dream Box,” Pat Metheny subscribes to the familiar axiom of doing something yourself when you want it done correctly. That especially holds true for the immediate impressions the record creates. It summons a profound but subtle glow unique to the electric guitar when its pace and volume are slowed and the only accompanists are multi-tracked melodies of an additional guitar line. In short, it’s a quiet venture where Metheny is the only participant. But such a distinctive solo setting, which brings Metheny back to Lexington for his first concert here in over three decades, is but a chapter in a 50-year recording career that has thrived in collaborative settings, whether it was through his famed ensemble fusion work with the Pat Metheny Group, a cinematic collaboration with David Bowie (1985’s “This is Not America”) and supporting, as well as bandleading, roles involving artists from almost every stylistic corner of the jazz world. Such lasting and far-reaching visibility has had its rewards — namely 20 Grammy Awards in 10 categories spanning 44 years. If you think that is dizzying, look at Metheny’s touring schedule. No sooner did an extensive international trio tour to promote his 2021 album “Side-Eye” wind down than an equally long-running trek of solo concerts to back up “Dream Box” began. On top of that, Metheny used a brief break from the road to cut an even newer album — a very different solo guitar record to be titled “MoonDial” — due out this summer. Guitarist and band leader Pat Metheny will bring his “Dream Box” tour to Lexington Opera House. Jimmy Katz

“The challenge is always that I have way more ideas and projects and things I want to do then I have time,” Metheny said. “It takes me a long time to fully develop ideas, to write the music for a particular project and then to come up with exactly the right people for a band and all of the other million things that you have to do in order to make something be a viable way of spending a year or two of your life as a bandleader.” The key word here is “bandleader” — whether it was through the modern slant of his work in the Pat Metheny Group or the more traditionally leaning music of trios and quartets from more recent decades that have born his name, Metheny has been the man in charge. But a project like “Dream Box” isn’t that different. Metheny is still the leader. It’s just that his band is smaller.