Artist: Pat Metheny Trio Title Of Album: Day Trip Year Of Release: January 29, 2008 Label: Nonesuch Genre: Jazz Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz Total Time: 68:07 min Total Size: 95,7 MB
Our
job is to be deeply in the moment, says Pat Metheny. 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. As Metheny explains, We did
it the old-school way. We'd been touring for about four or five years
at different times and then went in and recorded, rather than making a
record and touring behind it. We worked like gangbusters and finished
in a day, so the title Day Trip fit. Besides, this is kind of a trip
band; they take you on a journey. The Day Trip sessions were recorded
at Manhattan’s Right Track studio in late October 2005 and sequenced
into a ten-song set earlier this year. The album is being released in
conjunction with a national tour the trio will embark upon in February
2008. Metheny already reconvened the group this fall for an
enthusiastically received series of small market dates at colleges and
theatres; the trio ended its preliminary run with four concerts in
South Africa. 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. Christian is an amazing musician and Antonio is the
drummer of this generation, says Metheny. 35 year-old bassist McBride
had played alongside Roy Hargrove, Freddie Hubbard and others, before
stepping up to lead his own group; 36 year-old drummer Sanchez is a
member of The Pat Metheny Group. On Day Trip, Metheny offers plenty of
excitement in his solos and the trio cranks up the funk on "The Red
One", (a version of which was previously released on Metheny’s
collaboration with John Scofield "I Can See Your House From Here").
However they generally eschew flash for a more easy-going groove;
McBride calls it a softer, more traditional sound. Perhaps most
eloquent among these tracks is the elegiac, folk-like melody of "Is
This America?" (Katrina 2005). 2007 was an exceptional year for Metheny.
TRACKLIST ------------ 01 son of thirteen 05:49 02 at last you're here 08:00 03 let's move 05:22 04 snova 06:01 05 calvin's keys 07:31 06 is this america? (katrina 2005) 04:36 07 when we were free 09:08 08 dreaming trees 07:47 09 the red one 04:50 10 day trip 09:03