Day Trip

Product Details

Artist : Pat Metheny
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0075597995619
Label : Nonesuch
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-01-29
UPC : 075597995619

ASIN : B000YDOOU0

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Son of Thirteen
2. At Last You're Here
3. Let's Move
4. Snova
5. Calvin's Keys
6. Is This America? (Katrina 2005)
7. When We Were Free
8. Dreaming Trees
9. Red One
10. Day Trip

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Customer Reviews

Delightful. (2008-01-29)

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. 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. The hot, bluesy "Calvin's Keys" seems to be awaiting only Jimmy Smith's Hammond; "Is This America?" is an exquisitely simple acoustic country-guitar ballad that turns into a lilting drifter; Sanchez's sudden whiplash hits on the back of the bass-vamp opening "When We Were Young" border on terrifying surprises (not so different from the arrival of Metheny's whirling synth-guitar on the same piece); and the title track is a slinky Latin guitar-bop. Metheny's full of great improvisation ideas, and all three sound as if they are really enjoying themselves. 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.

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