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2009 – QUARTET LIVE
(Concord)	The album features three original members and jazz legends Gary Burton, Pat Metheny and Steve Swallow along with another new member, and perhaps one of the most prominent jazz drummers of his generation, Antonio Sanchez. The 11-song album was recorded live at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in Oakland, CA. Quartet Live! starts off with Chick Corea’s “Sea Journey,” one of many songs Corea wrote for the Burton group, and features songs written by Carla Bley (“Olhos de Gato” and “Syndrome”) and Keith Jarrett (“Coral”). Metheny’s composing talents are also represented here by tunes composed during his Burton Quartet years: the fast and furious “Missouri Uncompromised,” the haunting “B and G,” and “Question and Answer,” one of Pat’s most well-known pieces. The story begins in 1967 when bassist Steve Swallow joined with vibraphonist Gary Burton to form the original Gary Burton Quartet. In the early 1970s, then 19-year old guitarist Pat Metheny joined Burton’s band and one of the most celebrated careers in music began. A decade ago Metheny discovered drummer Antonio Sanchez, inviting him to join The Pat Metheny Group, and the two have been playing together ever since. The result is four legendary musicians, improvisers and composers all, each at the top of his game, bringing modern jazz history to life on Quartet Live! Order CD Download/Listen Musicians: Gary Burton Pat Metheny Steve Swallow Antonio Sanchez	Tracks: Sea Journey Olhos de Gato Falling Grace Coral Walter L B and G (Midwestner Night's Dream) Missouri Uncompromised Fleurette Africaine (Little African Flower) Hullo, Bolinas Syndrome Question and Answer
2008 – UPOJENIE: PAT METHENY & ANNA MARIA JOPEK
(Nonesuch)	"Anna Maria's beautiful voice is marvelous throughout this album and the creative interpretation of Pat's and PMG's classic tunes make this a must have for any Pat Metheny fan. Pats' playing on this album is spirited, uplifting and technically marvelous. As a whole the album flows and has nice balance between Pat's and the PMG's tunes reinvented with Polish lyrics and also traditional Polish tunes that are highlighted by Jopek's incredible voice. Now that this album has been released through Pat's and PMG record company, it is available in the US without having to pay for an import album from Poland. In short, this beautiful album is a must have! 3 incredible bonus tracks (1 studio/ 2 live) including 2 Pat solos on nylon string and synth guitar - Simply Awesome! Also a shorter tune with the soprano guitar. Highly recommended!" - amazon.com Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Anna Maria Jopek, Pat Metheny, Leszek Mozdzer, Marcin Pospieszalski, Cezary Konrad, Mino Cinelu, Henryk Miskiewicz, Mateusz Pospiezalski, Marek Pospieszalski, Wojciech Kowalewski, Piotr Natzaruk, Bernard Maseli, Marek Napiorkowski, Barney	Tracks: Here Comes the Silent Dusk So May It Secretly Begin Whiteness Tell Her You Saw Me Are You Going With Me Black Words Lulajze Jezuniu Upojenie Always and Forever A Song for Stas Letter From Home Another Life Farmer's Trust Polish Paths Follow Me The Snow Falls All Over the Place Whispers and Tears
2008 – TOKYO DAY TRIP (EP)
(Nonesuch)	This is a great companion piece to the studio release of Day Trip. Musically it's all over the map; two acoustic ballads (Inori, Night Becomes You), screaming rock fusion (Back Arm), one very esoteric ECM sort of tune (Tromsb), and one glorious straight ahead jazz piece which to me is the highlight of the entire album (Traveling Fast). If you like Metheny in a trio format then you probably loved Day Trip and I'm guessing you'll love this. His musical companions are both monster musicians themselves, so you've got the best of all worlds here. These three can seriously play! ~ Amazon.com Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez
2008 – DAY TRIP
(Nonesuch)	DAY TRIP, the first release from Metheny's current trio lineup, featuring bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, vividly depicts the group at one particularly inspired moment. Reviews from the daily U.S. press along the way have been a compendium of superlatives. The Buffalo News declared, Metheny is sharing his musical soul with the two finest musicians of their generation. The Times Union of Albany concurred: Christian McBride on stand-up bass and drummer Antonio Sanchez wove their way into Metheny’s music... and played with a telepathic virtuosity. And the Louisville Courier Journal summed up the nightly reaction to the trio’s sets: It was a collaborative tour de force that earned a standing ovation. Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez Podcast	Tracks: Son of Thirteen At Last You're Here Let's Move Snova Calvin's Keys Is This America? When We Were Free Dreaming Trees The Red One Day Trip
2007 – SECRET STORY - COLLECTOR'S EDITION
(Nonesuch)	The New York Times called Pat Metheny’s 1992 Grammy Award-winning Secret Story the most sweepingly ambitious album that the jazz guitarist has yet recorded...a nearly 80-minute world-music suite with symphonic underpinnings. If the album functioned then, in the words of critic Stephen Holden, as part travelogue and part soundtrack for a nonexistent film, then this expanded and re-mastered edition can best be described as the director’s cut. Composer and guitarist Metheny revisited and restored five previously unreleased tracks in the studio over the last year, and he’s collected them on a bonus disc. More pastoral in tone than most of the original material on Secret Story and with a decidedly cinematic, orchestral feel these tracks are like the deleted scenes from a deeply evocative yet wordless narrative feature. Back in ’92, Metheny declared that Secret Story was unlike anything I’ve ever done. It’s the largest in scope - 80 people were involved in the record - but it's also the most intimate record I’ve done. ~ Amazon.com Order CD Musicians: Pat Metheny with Jeremy Lubbock, Charlie Haden, Nana Vasconcelos, Lyle Mays, Armando Marcal, Mark Ledford, Danny Gottlieb, Steve Ferrone, Paul Wertico, Steve Rodby, Will Lee, Gil Goldstein, Mike Metheny, Ryan Kisor, Sammy Merendino, Toots Thielemans, Akiko Yano, members of the London Orchestra, members of the Pinpeat Orchestra, Choir of the Cambodian Royal Palace and others. Podcast
2007 – METHENY MEHLDAU QUARTET
(Nonesuch)	QUARTET expands upon the "dream pairing" - begun by guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau on their 2006 Nonesuch collaboration, Metheny/Mehldau. This time they incorporate the members of Mehldau's trio, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, into a breathtakingly eclectic set, which ranges from the airy, pastoral "Don't Wait" to straight-up rocking in the slowly building "Towards the Light." Last year, London's Evening Standard described Metheny and Mehldau as "graceful, lyrical improvisers." The 11 tracks that comprise Quartet were cut during the week-length December 2005 session that yielded Metheny /Mehldau, a recording date that, over time, will surely be considered a landmark in contemporary jazz. On Quartet, each artist contributes original solo compositions as well as their first co-written piece, "A Night Away." The group also reworks Mehldau's "Fear and Trembling," which originally appeared on House On Hill, Mehldau's final outing with his previous trio lineup. It also interprets Metheny's "Marta's Theme," from his score to the 1998 Italian film, A Passage to Paradise. Quartet is perhaps even more adventurous and just as rewarding as their first release; the exhilarating back and forth between Metheny and Mehldau continues with their eagerly awaited live dates. ~ Amazon.com Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Ballard Podcast	Tracks: A Night Away The Sound of Water Fear and Trembling So Much Music Everywhere Towards the Light Long Before En la Tierra Que No Olivida Santa Cruz Slacker Secret Beach Silent Movie
2006 – METHENY MEHLDAU
(NoneSuch)	"This is a dream pairing: Pat Metheny, the Baby Boomer guitar god whose musical palette embraces everything from Ornette Coleman to contemporary jazz, teams with pianist Brad Mehldau, the brooding Gen X prince of the piano on the verge of becoming himself. After admiring each other for years, they're now on the same label, and this dynamic duel extends their mutual admiration into a very personal and simpatico release that recalls the intimacy of that 1960s Jim Hall/Bill Evans masterpiece, Undercurrent. Save for Mehldau's bandmates drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier forming a quartet on the bop-mazed "Ring of Life" and the Afro-Caribbean cadences of "Say the Brother's Name," it's two for the road on the rest of the recording. When you hear selections like "Unrequited," "Ahmid-6," and "Make Peace," you know that this CD is only the start of something big from these two artists." Amazon.com Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Ballard Podcast	Tracks: Unrequited Ahmid-6 Summer Day Ring of Life Legend Find Me in Your Dreams Say the Brother's Name Bachelors III Annie's Bittersweet Cake Make Peace
2003 – ONE QUIET NIGHT
(Warner Bros.)	After having played in either trios or mid-sized group in recent years, Metheny goes the solo acoustic route on One Quiet Night. As the title implies, Metheny is in a contemplative mood, as he records a mix covers and old and new originals in his home studio. Playing his baritone guitar in a low country music tuning, Methany explores tonal shading throughout 12 relatively short tunes that are more impressionistic meditations than songs build around traditional jazz arrangements. The Norah Jones hit "Don’t Know Why" is born anew, but the new original pieces point in a particularly fresh new vein for the great guitarist. ~ Amazon.com Order CD Listen / Buy @ iTunes Special Feature Musicians: Pat Metheny	Tracks: One Quiet Night Song For The Boys Dont Know Why Another Chance And Time Goes On My Song Peace Memory Ferry Cross The Mersey Over On 4th Street I Will Find The Way North To South East To West Last Train Home
2000 – PAT METHENY TRIO > LIVE
(Wea/Warner Bros.)	"Pat Metheny's brought a string of trios to bear on his music, none of them lasting as a touring band long enough to bring a session like Trio Live to life. As on Trio 99-00, Metheny's bandstand has Larry Grenadier and Bill Stewart beside him, and they burn from start to finish. Taking up 13 tunes, Metheny shows off every nuance of his talents. Stewart invokes Elvin Jones, with a lead-footed focus on tempo and a hammering power. Grenadier provides calm force, keeping time with steely firmness. Metheny is all over the map, laying back to open the session, throwing off torrents of modulated guitar synth on a 19-minute "Question and Answer" and then diving laconically into one of jazz's least laconic pieces, John Coltrane's "Giant Steps." He's granite thick on the rocking "Faith Healer" and gently harplike on "Into the Dream," grooving steadily in between. All the while, the audience is hyped and involved. The trio has chemistry like Keith Jarrett's standards project, with each member providing texture and finishing each other's musical thoughts telepathically. This you can hear on familiar tunes, as well as on 35 minutes of new material rounding out the second disc."- Amazon.com Order CD Listen / Buy @ iTunes Special Feature Musicians: Pat Metheny, Larry Grenadier, Bill Stewart	Tracks: Bright Size Life Question And Answer Giant Steps Into The Dream So May It Secretly Begin The Bat All The Things You Are James Unity Village Soul Cowboy Night Turns Into Day Faith Healer Counting Texas
2000 – PAT METHENY TRIO 99 > 00
(Wea/Warner Bros.)	"Think "Pat Metheny trio record" and you'll probably recall his groundbreaking Bright Size Life or the more abstract Rejoicing (with Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins) or even Question and Answer (Dave Holland, Roy Haynes). Well, keep thinking. Trio 99-00 is the popular guitarist-composer's most straight-ahead, no-muss, no-fuss recording yet. Recorded over two days with the remarkable team of drummer Bill Stewart and bassist Larry Grenadier, Trio 99-00 covers much compositional and stylistic ground but is essentially a hard-bop-tinged blowing session. Metheny's Sonny Rollins-ish originals include "(Go) Get It," "Soul Cowboy" (featuring amazing chordal guitar), "What Do You Want?" and a blazing trio variation on "Lone Jack," which appeared on the first Pat Metheny Group album. Unusual choices are made throughout: a sensually swinging "Giant Steps," an elegant "A Lot of Livin' to Do," and inclusion of Wayne Shorter's queasy gem, "Capricorn." And as always, Pat can't help but get sentimental on acoustic guitar, culminating in the first studio rendition of "Travels." This isn't for the faint-hearted, nor those waiting for another PMG travelogue like We Live Here or Letter from Home. This is pure jazz slam, a trio showdown with the gloves off." - Amazon.com Order CD Listen / Buy @ iTunes Special Feature Musicians: Pat Metheny, Larry Grenadier, Bill Stewart	Tracks: (Go) Get It Giant Steps Just Like The Day Soul Cowboy The Sun In Montreal Capricorn We Had A Sister What Do You Want? A Lot Of Livin' To Do Lone Jack Travels
1999 – A MAP OF THE WORLD
(Warner Bros.)	"Pat Metheny is a true musical poet. His score to Jane Hamilton's "A Map of the World" does something remarkable - it conjurs up not just the feeling and atmosphere of the book; it actually seems to address the central meaning and essense of forgiveness that makes this story one of the modern miracles of literature. As someone who has loved this book since it was released in the mid-90's, I was concerned when I heard that they were making a movie of it. I saw the movie the other night, and it is excellent. But the highlight of the film - and a major component of it's success is this hauntinly beautiful, truly deep music. Although there are comparisons to be made with Metheny's "Beyond the Missouri Sky", this music is far more substantial. There are several musical themes, especially the title theme melody, which appear regularly throughout this suite, that are some of Metheny's absolute best ballads. The harmonic ambiguity of the first piece on the record (you really cannot tell what key it is finally going to land in, it keeps modulating so much) sets EXACTLY the right tone for the protaganists (Alice Goodwin) mental state. And the basic sound Metheny is getting here out of his acoustic guitars is simply breathtaking - this man has the best touch of any acoustic guitarist in the world right now." - Amazon.com Order CD Listen/Download Special Feature Musicians: Pat Metheny and orchestra	Tracks: A Map Of The World Family North Home Sisters Childhood Fall From Grace Memory Gone Flight Alone Outcasts Sunday Discovery Acceptance Realization Soliloquy Night Sunrise Resolution Pictures Patience Transition Reunion Renewal Homecoming Forgiving Holding Us
1999 – JIM HALL & PAT METHENY
(Nonesuch)	"The presence of Pat Metheny on Jim Hall's 1998 By Arrangement fulfilled the younger guitarist's long-standing dream of recording with Hall. But these duets confirm how beautiful their performing together could become. Unlike many encounters between high-profile guitarists, these recordings, from both a New York studio and a Pittsburgh concert, show no sense of competition or interest in displays of empty virtuosity. Instead, the CD's true to the enduring spirit of Hall's music, emphasizing interaction and a subtle complexity. Hall plays the lightly amplified electric guitar that is his trademark, with a gorgeous liquid tone, while Metheny brings a bevy of instruments to the meeting, including a standard electric (no synth), several acoustics--including a fretless classical--and his 42-string model for some remarkably harplike effects. There's tremendous variety in the music and thought in the choices of tunes and approaches. "The Birds and the Bees," played in memory of its composer, the late guitarist Attila Zoller, has a haunting depth, while the frequently played "Summertime" achieves a new identity in Metheny's arrangement, with spare and vibrant lead contrasting with animated rhythm guitar. Both musicians are adept composers, and highlights include Metheny's "Ballad X" and Hall's increasingly propulsive "Cold Spring." Given that Hall participated in one of the first recorded examples of free improvisation, "Free Form" with the Chico Hamilton Quintet in 1955, and Metheny has recorded with the British avant-gardist Derek Bailey, it's fitting that the two guitarists test the limits of their empathy in five brief and intriguing collective improvisations that sometimes explore unusual textures and microtonal harmonies. Whatever the material, though, the earmarks of the set are a quiet energy and a sustained lyric invention that invite and reward repeated listenings. The recording quality is superb, capturing every nuance of this music that seems to live near the core of the jazz guitar ethos." ~ Amazon.com Listen / Buy @ Amazon Listen / Buy @ iTunes Special Feature Musicians: Pat Metheny, Jim Hall	Tracks: Lookin' Up All The Things You Are The Birds And The Bees Improvisation No.1 Falling Grace Ballad Z Summertime Farmer's Trust Cold Spring Improvisation No.2 Into The Dream Don't Forget Improvisation No.3 Waiting To Dance Improvisation No.4 Improvisation No.5 All Across The City
1998 – LIKE MINDS
(Concord)	"Vibist Gary Burton has been collaborating with pianist Chick Corea and guitarist Pat Metheny since the mid-'70s, and it shows. The three have a strong intuitive sense of each other's lines and sound and can enhance the music in myriad, subtle ways. Having a great rhythm section doesn't hurt either, and bassist Dave Holland and drummer Roy Haynes are two of the very best. On Like Minds they have created an excellent CD: a no-frills, straight-ahead jazz album, crisply recorded, full of energy and imagination. With the exception of the George Gershwin piece, "Soon," the disc features all original compositions, with considerable thought given to distinguishing each soloist despite the surface similarity of their nimble, bouncy styles. Like minds, perhaps, but each possesses a singular voice and the ability to merge it creatively with others."- Amazon.com Listen / Buy @ Amazon Special Feature Musicians: Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes	Tracks: Question And Answer Elucidation Windows Futures Like Minds Country Roads Tears Of Rain Soon For A Thousand Years Straight Up And Down
1997 – BEYOND THE MISSOURI SKY (SHORT STORIES)
(Universal Music)	This subtle, sublime collaboration finds bassist Charlie Haden and guitarist Pat Metheny crafting bejeweled chamber duets that transcend genre. With their shared Missouri lineage as a thematic touchstone, Haden and Metheny forge a lyrical, mostly acoustic style at once intimate and expansive. Both pare their playing to a Zen-like economy, focusing on a purity of tone, clarity of harmony, and counterpoint to achieve a tender lyricism. Metheny's acoustic steel-string and classical guitars predominate, but he also applies discreet overdubs (including some delicate synthesizer and keyboard textures) to sculpt orchestral detail. Haden, as always, is both a generous foil and a deft melodist on his own, moving easily into his instrument's upper register as he twines through Metheny's lines. The set's emotional coherence is particularly satisfying in light of the material, which spans Ennio Morricone ("Cinema Paradiso"), Henry Mancini ("Two for the Road"), Jim Webb ("The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"), and Roy Acuff ("The Precious Jewel") as well as affecting originals by both leaders. And giving the project a sense of closure, while commenting obliquely on the generational dialogue it represents, is the luminous "Spiritual" (composed by Haden's son, Josh), an instrumental prayer that exemplifies the balance of concision and deep emotion at the heart of this exquisite triumph. ~ Amazon.com Order CD Listen / Buy @ iTunes Special Feature Musicians: Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden	Tracks: Waltz For Ruth Our Spanish Love Song Message To A Friend Two For The Road First Song The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress The Precious Jewel He's Gone Away The Moon Song Tears Of Rain Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme) Cinema Paradiso (Main Theme) Spiritual
1994 – ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SILENCE
(DGC)	"...THE most radical recording of this decade...a new milestone in electric guitar music...searing, soaring, twisted shards of action guitar/thought process. An incendiary work by an unpredictable master, a challenge to the challengers..." ~ Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth Listen / Buy @ Amazon Listen / Buy @ iTunes Musicians: Pat Metheny	Tracks: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
1992 – SECRET STORY
(Nonesuch)	The New York Times called Pat Metheny’s 1992 Grammy Award-winning Secret Story the most sweepingly ambitious album that the jazz guitarist has yet recorded...a nearly 80-minute world-music suite with symphonic underpinnings. The album functions, in the words of critic Stephen Holden, as part travelogue and part soundtrack for a nonexistent film. - Amazon.com Listen / Buy @ Amazon Listen/Buy @ iTunes Musicians: Pat Metheny with Jeremy Lubbock, Charlie Haden, Nana Vasconcelos, Lyle Mays, Armando Marcal, Mark Ledford, Danny Gottlieb, Steve Ferrone, Paul Wertico, Steve Rodby, Will Lee, Gil Goldstein, Mike Metheny, Ryan Kisor, Sammy Merendino, Toots Thielemans, Akiko Yano, members of the London Orchestra, members of the Pinpeat Orchestra, Choir of the Cambodian Royal Palace and others. Podcast	Tracks: Above The Treetops Facing West Cathedral In A Suitcase Finding and Believing The Longest Summer Sunlight Rain River Always and Forever See The World As A Flower Blossoms (I Am Running To You) Antonia The Truth Will Always Be Tell Her You Saw Me Not To Be Forgotton (Our Final Hour)
1990 – QUESTION AND ANSWER (REMASTERED VERSION 2008)
(Nonesuch)	Here are three musicians who are perfectly in sync. Creating music of such beauty and depth that now, 12 years after I bought this recording I am still stunned by it. This is some of Pat Metheny's best playing. They are three but sound like more. It would've been easy for these three virtuoso's to let their technique run away with them and make this a chop fest but they didn't. This is pure jazz which is both accessible, swinging, complex and interesting. The setting is spare which allows for them to explore each piece without the encumberances of over production. They can step out on stage on do these piece live, true to form. This recording is timeless. Twelve years later it holds up well. The pieces are just as fresh. Dave Holland shows why he is the bassist's bassist. His tone is rich and resonant. Roy Haynes is just a national musical treasure. He adds shades and colors. More musical than percussive, though he can be that as well. This is definitely a must have recording. ~ Amazon.com Order CD Listen / Buy @ itunes Musicians: Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes	Tracks: Solar Question and Answer H&H Never Too Far Away Law Years Change of Heart All The Things You Are Old Folks Three Flights Up
1986 – SONG X [TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION]
(Nonesuch)	The Texas-born alto saxophonist, composer, and free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman influenced generations of musicians, including a guitarist from Missouri named Pat Metheny. Two decades after their 1985 recording, this remastered and remixed edition – with Coleman’s son Denardo and Jack DeJohnette both on drums, with long time bassist Charlie Haden – sounds fresher than ever. The original eight tracks, from the bluesy, midtempo "Mob Job," laced with Coleman’s eerie violin strains, and the crying ballad "Kathelin Gray" to the interlocking title track, all exhibit the quantum physics approach to melody, rhythm, harmony and improvisation Coleman calls Harmolodics. The additional, six unreleased selections from the Coleman canon include "The Good Life," a Latin-tinged number, the hyper-bopped "Word From Bird," Compute," and the melodically dark shadows of "The Veil." As Metheny wrote in the liner notes, "This twentieth-anniversary edition of record feels like an improvement and reveals a more complete picture of our efforts." ~ Amazon.com Order CD Listen / Buy @ iTunes Musicians: Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Denardo Coleman Podcast	Tracks: Police People All of Us Good Life Word From Bird Compute Veil Song X Mob Job Endangered Species Video Games Kathelin Gray Trigonometry Song X Duo Long Time No See
1983 – REJOICING
(ECM)	"Rejoicing" makes a perfect companion to "Beyond the Missouri Sky." Haden and Metheny share a magnetism on the ground that can only be matched by Lyra and Orion in the night sky. Each tune shines with lyrical brilliance; be it in the softened freedom of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman," the dazzling blur of Metheny's clean runs on the title track, or the wailing synthguitar of "The Calling." Higgins on drums complements all the string action. Harmony, harmolodics, and eudemonics: the joy of the musicianship on this album uplifts the listener with its magic. ~ CD Universe Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins	Tracks: Lonely Woman Tears Inside Humpty Dumpty Blues For Pat Rejoicing Story From A Stranger The Calling Waiting For An Answer
1981 – 80/81
(ECM)	This recording is in my top ten of "must have" music. It is sublime on all levels. From the beautiful, emotive guitar-work of Pat Metheny, to the essential bass of Charlie Haden and tenor sax of Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker. And perhaps the highlight of the recording is the intricate yet effortless drumming of Jack DeJohnette. It stands out throughout the recordings, even prompting one of the artists to exclaim at the tail-end of the recording session of one of their songs, "Whooooieee, man, Jack DeJohnette!" You will treasure this album forever! ~ CD Universe Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Dewey Redman, Mike Brecker	Tracks: Two Folks Songs 80/81 The Bat Turnaround Open Pretty Scattered Every Day (I Thank You) Goin' Ahead
1981 – AS FALLS WICHITA, SO FALLS WICHITA FALLS
(ECM)	"Guitarist Pat Metheny and his longtime keyboard collaborator/alter ego Lyle Mays saw in their rural American roots a mystical connection to an entire world of sounds, and with As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, they began the process of fashioning an idiomatic folk expression all their own. With the help of master percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, they create a whistlestop tour of musical outposts on the extended title track that is at once gothic and atmospheric in the manner of Weather Report, bucolic and harmonious like the Byrds--with echoes of small towns, strip malls, and lonely railyards, over expanses of wide-open space that reflect their familial origins and countless miles wandering the interstate on a string of college-town one-nighters. In the four square major modes of 'Ozark' and 'It's for You' you can hear the beige tinge of the American experience that melded with African American music to give the U.S. its musical depth and breadth, while 'September Fifteenth' is a prayerful, ruminative reflection on the spirit of their romantic forebear, pianist Bill Evans." - amazon.com Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Nana Vasconcelos	Tracks: As Falls Wichita... Ozark September 15th "It's For You" Estupenda Graca
1979 – NEW CHAUTAUQUA
(ECM)	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. ~ tower.com Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny	Tracks: New Chautauqua Country Poem Long-Ago Child/Fallen Star Hermitage Sueno Con Mexico Daybreak
1977 – WATERCOLORS
(ECM)	Pat Metheny was virtually defining a new musical form on this 1977 date, blending folk, country, and pop elements with jazz and creating a gentler, more intimate idiom than fusion had been. His distinctively chorused electric guitar often floats over the smooth textures created by his own acoustic six-stringer, Lyle Mays's piano, and Danny Gottlieb's discreet drumming, while Eberhard Weber's electric and acoustic bass lines rise to ricochet with the guitar leads. The song titles abound with watery images, and they're perfectly in keeping with this flowing music, which tends to a pale, even pastel, palette and an ethereal lightness. "River Quay," particularly, suggests the sound of the Pat Metheny Group that would come later. ~ Amazon.com Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Eberhard Weber, Danny Gottlieb	Tracks: Watercolors Icefire Oasis Lakes River Quay Suite: I. Florida Greeting Song II. Legend Of The Fountain Sea Song
1976 – BRIGHT SIZE LIFE
(ECM)	Larger ensembles may have provided Pat Metheny with his most visible successes, but he's repeatedly fired up his most fluid and personal playing in leaner trio settings, starting with this, his 1976 debut as a leader. Bob Moses brings both delicacy and effortless dynamics to his drumming, but it's the late Jaco Pastorius's lyrical electric bass that clinches the guitarist's coming-out party: with Metheny already displaying the liquid tone and exquisite touch that define his sound, old friend Pastorius radiates a sympathetic lyricism and unerring sense of swing. ~ Amazon.com essential recording Order CD Listen/Download Musicians: Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Bob Moses	Tracks: Bright Size Life Sirabhorn Unity Village Missouri Uncompromised Midwestern Nights Dream Unquity Road Omaha Celebration Round Trip/Broadway Blues