I love this tune. A Metheny classic. It SHOULD be "guitaristic"! You're developing a nice feel for the guitar. I like a lot of your note choices, especially as you play a phrase and then build on that phrase and keep going to keep the thread.

The element of your playing I want to help you address is your feel for time. Being able to play in the pocket is 80% of the challenge of most players developing their jazz chops. For example, your strumming at 1:35 is more in the pocket than when you start running lines just before 1:50. Listen back to that section around 1:50. What do you hear in your time: in the pocket, drag or rush?

You rush, and that is your tendency overall. Maybe it's because you are anxious to find the next note or the difficulty of faster lines. Through that section (1:50) of melody, your time floats between rushing and being close to the beat. Even though I'm characterizing your playing as rushing, it is more accurate to call it inconsistent. When you listen to Metheny, hear the absolute consistency in his time feel. The same is true of every great jazz player. THAT is your goal.

Your bass player is laying it down for you. When you guys practice, deliberately play very simple lines without long strings of eighth notes. Just feel putting the notes in the pocket. After you feel that you in the groove with the bass player (or rhythm section) expand your rhythmic range. In other words, play longer strings of eighth notes, but listen for your tendency to run away with the time. When that happens, stop and simplify. It's always easier to hear these tendencies in other players, so the skill to continue developing is to hear this time inconsistency in yourself. What makes it difficult is that time inconsistencies are often subtle. You might say to your bass player, point out when I start to get ahead of the beat when we rehearse.

You do sometimes return to the groove like at 3:10. Nice playing there.

Again, listen to Pat play the melody. Hear how perfect he plays those two triplets in the second phrase of the melody? And hear how he lands right on beat one after them. With your metronome running on 2 and 4, practice just that phrase. Over and over, to get the feel of the groove in your ear. If you have trouble with that, sing it a few times, record it and listen back. Recording and listening is an indispensable tool for improving. While we play, it's more difficult to objectively hear ourselves. And yes, I am encouraging you to practice the melody, but any way you can practice your time feel will help your time when you improvise.

And speaking of 2 and 4, I am a big fan of practicing your scales with the metronome on 2 and 4 - not on all four quarter notes. Record your playing and listen back. Can you hear the swing feel? Is it in the pocket? Are you certain?

You are a good guitar player. Becoming more consistent with your time will be an important step in elevating the feel and soul of your playing. I'm sure you listen to Scofield and Abercrombie. Like Metheny, they are masters of time and rhythm. Even in a floating time piece like "Timeless" with Jan Hammer and DeJohnette, hear how beautifully Abercrombie weaves his lines through the beginning. And then when DeJohnette kicks in with brush time, Abercrombie is completely not only in the pocket, but maintaining the pocket abd the groove of the piece. Even throughout his flurries of notes, the pulse of time is there in the background. And DeJohnette was not always an easy player with whom to keep time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHsZ_-9442o

Feel free to submit a future recording where you hear the improvement in your time. I'd love to hear that and share with you what I hear. Keep up the good work!!