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Recorded live in Dallas, Texas; Nacogdoches, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hartford, Connecticut; Sacramento, California in July, October and November 1982. A double album that flirts with rock, folk, country and Latin - but is emphatically ... Full Descriptiona jazz album. Metheny is equipped with probably his best ever live group; Steve Rodby, Dan Gottlieb, Nana Vasconcelos, and his right arm, keyboard virtuoso Lyle Mays. The recording exudes warmth, and often improves on tracks already issued on studio albums; for example, 'Phase Dance' is played with more verve and 'Song For Bilbao' sounds more passionate in a live context. The diamond in the mine, however, is the shortest piece - the glorious and delicate title track - worth the price of the album alone.
Pat Metheny Group: Pat Metheny (synthesizer, guitar); Lyle Mays (autoharp, piano, organ, synthesizer); Steve Rodby (synthesizer, acoustic & electric basses); Dan Gottlieb (drums).
Additional personnel: Nana Vasconcelos (vocals, berimbau, percussion).Record Collector (magazine) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Metheny used these dates to channel his Brazilian muse, effectively utilising guitar synthesizers to give the group an increasingly electronic, but always innovative and satisfying, arrangement." Hide Description Pat Metheny Travels Songs Purchase Travels CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Pat Metheny Offramp CD (1982)
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Opening with some beautiful synclavier and Lyle Mays' exquisite soaring synths on 'Barcarole', this is an atmosphere album. It moves from delicacy to beauty and is arguably the most complete album of his incredible career. The delightful 'James' (a tribute to James Taylor, listen to the guitar inflections) is complemented by the awesome 'Au Lait'; and if that was not enough, this contains surely Metheny's finest moment, 'Are You Going With Me', a song that builds ...
| | Pat Metheny New Chautauqua CD (2000)
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Guitarist Pat Metheny is one of the few artists that can perform an entire album by himself and sound like whole orchestra on his own. NEW CHAUTAUQUA finds the modern guitar master employing a myriad of stringed instruments, in both solo works and multi-tracked collages, to great effect. Each piece is awash in Metheny's signature pastoral style, full of lush strummed chords and angular melodic lines. So complete is the guitarist's musical creation that it is difficult to distinguish the seams dividing his many instrumental voices, sounding as if he had played them all simultaneously. For the listener, this creates a sublime sonic experience.
The tracks range from dense epics like the opening title track to the programmatic "Daybreak," a delicate solo work that produces a dramatic effect that is both lonesome and comforting. Metheny stays acoustic for much of ...
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Guitarist Pat Metheny's atmospheric, "smooth" (when that word didn't carry ugly connotations) jazz was just about ready to set the world afire when this Pat Metheny Group effort hit the racks. Metheny's was one of the tighter outfits in modern jazz when this eponymous album was released in 1978 on ECM, the label that really mattered for them in the '70s.
The Group's idiosyncratic blending of folk, blues stylings, improv spaciness, and supple rock underpinnings were unlike anything ...
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With AMERICAN GARAGE, the 1979-model Pat Metheny Group created a soundscape of the American heartland, combining elements of jazz, rock and gospel music. With layers of guitars, rolling keyboard textures, and a rhythm section that could both rock and play with openness and delicacy, they defined a sound that influenced a generation of musicians.
Tight ensemble playing, inspired soloing, and the individual members' personal ...
| | Pat Metheny Watercolors CD (1977)
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Pat Metheny's WATERCOLORS is sonically a much simpler record than many of his regular group's albums, but it's nonetheless a musically engaging venture that once again challenges the parameters of modern jazz. With his longtime partner keyboardist Lyle Mays, European bassist Eberhard Weber, and drummer Danny Gottlieb, Metheny leads the listener through a galaxy of ethereal moods, dancing rhythms, and soaring melodies. Add to this the underlying theme of water, and Metheny has all the ingredients for a musical masterpiece.
As expected, the music has the European New Age quality that is imbued on most ECM discs, but Metheny's knack for creating pastoral colors forged with rich musical foundations is as strong as ever. Whether it's on dancing quartet pieces like the opening title track and the delightfully melodic "Lakes" or programmatic swathes of expression like the solo piece "Icefire," Metheny displays his ...
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A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").
All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth.
Those familiar with the Live Adventures album these two recorded at the Fillmore West know how brilliant they could be on stage, and here's another gem, recorded at the Fillmore East this time and featuring 'One Way Out,' 'It's My Own Fault' (with ...
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Travels Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews PMG's Travels is Amazing
Weather or not you like jazz, this is a must have collection. PMG was hitting an early career peak and they were really on it in this recording. One of my favorites from this set is San Lorenzo - a definitive live version played to perfection! Goin' Ahead As Fall Witchita... is also tremendous. Other highlights include Phase Dance and Farmer's Trust, and a blazing version of Are You Going With Me? to open the double disc set.
What are waiting for? Just buy it!
Submitted by thela_hun_ginjeet (Cheasapeake Bay)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No One of the best, ever!
Pat Metheny is the most decorated jazz guitarist."Travels" is not only his best album, but arguably, the best LIVE jazz-fusion recording ever! I could go on-and-on about how impressive these live versions of "Are You Going With Me?", " Extradition", "San Lorenzo", & "As Wichita Falls, So Wichita Falls" are, but I won't.
Submitted by St.Davey (Windam, Me.)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No An Elysium come true!!!!!!
If there is a heaven I believe that this kind of music is played there. The melodies are very contagious, addictive & organic. Nothing synthetic here. The compositions are phenomenal. The arrangements are from a higher dimension of musical reality. The performances are just mind blowing and staggering!!! The incredible chord-voicings & sounds Lyle Mays plays are crystaline & angelic! Truly my best Pat Metheny album...need I say more!!!!!
Submitted by bertnmartha (Canoga Park, CA, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Phialdelphia Travels
In 1983 or so I was traveling in the street by car minding my own business listening to WXPN a great Philly radio station. On my errands they played,” Are You going with me"? I listened to Lyle Mays opening intro and was astounded when Pat opened with his synth solo. I traveled down 4th street crossing Market when I simply had to pull over. The solo was other worldly and to this day have never heard anything close to it. If you are looking for a music, no a spiritual experience, I highly recommend this album to all music fans. The piece set me on a course to write published poetry and books while listening to his music.
Submitted by yotrust (Irealnd)
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This CD show for me the Metheny main style focus. All the tracks are in a way rappresentative of the PMG style. I like very much this recording and I suggest you in particular to hear "The Fields, The Sky" It's an Ethereal song on which metheny guitar sound texture is unique, irripeteable.
Check out This CD...Very good
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