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METHENY PAT DAY TRIP
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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
By tois
Format:Audio CD
The late jazz writer Richard Cook described Pat Metheny's enormous audience as a mixture of "progressive-rock listeners, fusion fans, and plain old lovers of guitar heroes". In other words, he manages to cover quite a few stylistic bases, but here's an album that will appeal most to the hard-core jazz listeners among Metheny's many fans.
'Metheny hooks up with his regular partners, Christian McBride on double bass and Antonio Sanchez on drums. As you'd expect for musicians who have played hundreds of dates together they're very comfortable in each other's company, with McBride's marvellously deep, rich bass really shining throughout'(BBC).
'In its early stages, "Day Trip" seems to fall into some familiar postbop traps (too much technique, overwrought themes) but it soon settles into some jubilant improvising from all three, on the kind of bluesy grooves, Latin swingers and inviting ballads that suggest Wes Montgomery has returned to life and found the hippest 21st-century world-music partners he could' (Guardian).
He dazzles on 10 new originals.
"Let's Move" is fast and boppish, "At Last You're Here" is a fine ballad, bound to become a classic - as might his bluesy "Calvin's Keys" and a bittersweet acoustic lament for flood-battered New Orleans, "Is This America?"
For technique, taste and originality, Pat's still the man.
He is alternately pastorally lyrical and hard-swinging, reminding us of his origins in the music of Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall respectively.
Apart from the unmemorable nature of some of the compositions, this is delightful stuff.
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Hallmarks: The Best of Jim Hall
'Metheny hooks up with his regular partners, Christian McBride on double bass and Antonio Sanchez on drums. As you'd expect for musicians who have played hundreds of dates together they're very comfortable in each other's company, with McBride's marvellously deep, rich bass really shining throughout'(BBC).
'In its early stages, "Day Trip" seems to fall into some familiar postbop traps (too much technique, overwrought themes) but it soon settles into some jubilant improvising from all three, on the kind of bluesy grooves, Latin swingers and inviting ballads that suggest Wes Montgomery has returned to life and found the hippest 21st-century world-music partners he could' (Guardian).
He dazzles on 10 new originals.
"Let's Move" is fast and boppish, "At Last You're Here" is a fine ballad, bound to become a classic - as might his bluesy "Calvin's Keys" and a bittersweet acoustic lament for flood-battered New Orleans, "Is This America?"
For technique, taste and originality, Pat's still the man.
He is alternately pastorally lyrical and hard-swinging, reminding us of his origins in the music of Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall respectively.
Apart from the unmemorable nature of some of the compositions, this is delightful stuff.
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Hallmarks: The Best of Jim Hall
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm going to have to say I was disappointed with this album for a number of different reasons. I'll start by saying that it is not by any stretch a bad album, per-se. Metheny does have some serious chops and his new trio-mates, Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez, are both excellent musicians that I have liked for a while in their own rights. Those concessions aside I have to say that I feel like Metheny is stuck in a rut musically speaking. I think its such a shame that Metheny sounds just like last time here. Not that Metheny sounded bad the last time around, just that I was hoping for something different or new to come with the new trio. If there is any exploration here it is tepid at best. At first when I began listening to this album, it struck me as pretty good standard Metheny affair. I found I could not stomach an entire albums worth of it though and began to zone out during Metheny's solo's. The album became for me a vehicle of the two other trio members who are both in fine form here. Still, however, a disappointment.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Guitarist Pat Metheny gets together with what he calls "two of the best people on earth"; drummer Antonio Sanchez and bassist Christian McBride - all three of them geniuses in their respective fields, if you ask me - for this beautiful set of 10 songs lasting just over one hour. I often find myself searching for words when reviewing any Pat Metheny project. What's there to say anyway, apart from, it's stunningly beautiful and just as good as (if not better than) I expected it to be? It is very true though, that no new musical ground is broken on this disc - hence the "more of the same" comment by a previous reviewer; a comment I tend to agree with - but that doesn't bother me much. I don't think I could ever get bored of music by Pat Metheny and the album loses no stars from me as a result.
Metheny plays electric guitar for the most, only choosing acoustic guitar on the thinly veiled political lament "Is This America? (katrina 2005)", on which McBride takes a bow to his bass, and then again on "Dreaming Trees". He also plays his trademark guitar synth on "When We Were Free", a cover of a song that originally appeared on the Pat Metheny Group 1996 album Quartet and again on "The Red One", another one I've heard before on I Can See Your House from Here, the 1994 album Pat made with John Scofield. Sanchez and McBride make sure the covers work, in that they both actually add something new to the originals, which were pretty awesome to begin with. Kudos to them.
The guitar/bass/drums trio format has always been my favourite of them all and this particular trio has not let me down. Pick this up if you're a Metheny fan or just interested in sampling some good jazz guitar. It's worth every penny.
One question though, Pat: When's the next PMG album due? It's been three years already!
Metheny plays electric guitar for the most, only choosing acoustic guitar on the thinly veiled political lament "Is This America? (katrina 2005)", on which McBride takes a bow to his bass, and then again on "Dreaming Trees". He also plays his trademark guitar synth on "When We Were Free", a cover of a song that originally appeared on the Pat Metheny Group 1996 album Quartet and again on "The Red One", another one I've heard before on I Can See Your House from Here, the 1994 album Pat made with John Scofield. Sanchez and McBride make sure the covers work, in that they both actually add something new to the originals, which were pretty awesome to begin with. Kudos to them.
The guitar/bass/drums trio format has always been my favourite of them all and this particular trio has not let me down. Pick this up if you're a Metheny fan or just interested in sampling some good jazz guitar. It's worth every penny.
One question though, Pat: When's the next PMG album due? It's been three years already!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
pat metheny
used the product many times and was quite pleased with it I would suggest this product to friends for their enjoyment
Published 22 hours ago by jlich
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another masterpiece!
As a hopeless Metheny Group fan, I generally tended to prefer the group material to his solo offerings and collaborations with other musicians. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dave Machemer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Defective
One track skips on this cd. Other than that the cd is great! Pat has done it again. False advertising.
Published 19 months ago by DeniseJ Holder
4.0 out of 5 stars
mellow metheny
nice collaboration with Sanchez and McBride. a nice listen and a typical Metheny production. well worth the purchase and should be enjoyable for all time.
Published 20 months ago by Lowell M. Jeffers
5.0 out of 5 stars
Metheny Stretches
OK, I admit to being one of those Metheny fans who like those similarly afflicted by Bob Dylan would probably go thru the man's garbage to discover what secret gems might be... Read more
Published on December 22, 2010 by Gil Carlson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Similar, yet improved and refreshing, sound
This album is ostensibly very similar in concept to, say, Metheny's Trio 99->00 album, but yet it's not the same. Read more
Published on March 24, 2010 by Trevis Rothwell
3.0 out of 5 stars
Less inspired but just as engaged
3 1/2
The great guitarist may finally be (relatively) mellowing out in old age with a slight degree of unfortunate consistency, though it hardly renders his informed... Read more
The great guitarist may finally be (relatively) mellowing out in old age with a slight degree of unfortunate consistency, though it hardly renders his informed... Read more
Published on December 26, 2009 by IRate
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice
Must admit that this album was very standard Pat Metheny. Although very good it is not out of the ordinary.
Published on December 2, 2009 by Wendy E. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Thing in Years from PM
Guitarist Metheny and bassist McBride are the well-known members of this trio, but it is drummer Sanchez who makes the most indelible impression with his incredibly energetic and... Read more
Published on July 7, 2009 by Karl W. Nehring
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rock-solid from start to finish, just beautiful.
I'm not going to review this one track-by-track, because it is simply pristine jazz trio music, and that's all you really need to know. Read more
Published on May 30, 2009 by Mike
