Music CD - Pat Metheny Group: Travels

	Music CD: Travels Artist: Pat Metheny Group List Price: $27.98 Our Price: $22.68 Your Save: $ 5.30 ( 19% ) Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 weeks Manufacturer: Ecm
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Tracks: 1. Are You Going With Me? 2. Fields, The Sky, The 3. Goodbye 4. Phase Dance 5. Straight On Red 6. Farmer's Trust
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042281062223 Format: Live Label: Ecm Manufacturer: Ecm Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Ecm Release Date: 1994-05-10 Studio: Ecm
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Yes, I am going with you... Comment: 1978 was a transformational year for me. Having nearly gotten the bad taste of high school out of my mouth, I was, like most teenagers on the verge of adulthood, in search of some deeper meaning and substance in my life. Of course I didn't realize any of that at the time when, on a lazy, summer afternoon, my friend said that he had a new album that he wanted me to listen to. I was a rock fan then and so was he, so I was expecting the usual Zep or Doors when I suddenly heard the opening notes to San Lorenzo. That album was of course, the self titled "Pat Metheny Group" and it was the only music that we listened to for the entire day. It was, for me, an epiphany. To say that the next forty minutes changed my life sounds like hyperbole but, in truth, my concept of music and how I listened to it changed forever on that sunny afternoon. Metaphorically, I had just sat down at the table. smelled the food and realized just how hungry I was. Hungry for more...The world of Jazz opened up to me on that day, which is not to say that I had never heard Jazz before. On the contrary, my father had many Jazz albums, but they were, well, they were my fathers... That was stuff that he listened to (and with respect to my father and those talented musicians, such as Sinatra, Art Tatum, Buddy Rich and Count Basie, it is part of the music that I now also listen to)... But these guys just blew me away. They touched me ineffably with their depth of feeling and gift for melody. They touched me in a way that those musicians of my fathers age, talented though they were, could not. It probably helped that Pat and I were both mid-western boys and that he wasn't too much older than I was, and that, as I was to later discover, we both loved Jimmy Hendrix... A few years later that same friend called me up and said that Pat was coming to town and that we should go see him. Pat wasn't the icon then that he is now of course and the tickets were pretty cheap and not at all hard to get, at least not in my little town. The show was in, of all places, a Cathedral. The irony was palpable as it turned out to be a near religious experience. That tour was part of the band's "Travels" that were later, to comprise this album. I listened to that album everyday as soon as I got my hands on it. Listened to it until you could nearly see through it. The t-shirt that I got at that concert has also long since worn out, and of course there have been other great albums and their associated concerts (most notably Still Life-(talking) in 87' and We Live Here in 95') but none have affected me so deeply and completely as that first concert in that darkened Cathedral. To hear these cuts now on disc... it takes me back to that hallowed, ethereal, place, all those years ago and I get the same chill down my back as I did that night. I confess that I have not loved every note that Pat has composed. Indeed he has taken some paths on his journey as an artist down which I could neither follow nor comprehend, but I do respect his courage in choosing that path. Now as I think about it, all the years and all the miles in between then and now, seem a bit clearer, seem to have a little more meaning, when I listen and I smile and I weep, to this beautifully crafted music. And it becomes apparent to me that perhaps this was what the truth of the music was all about; that the travels and the path that I had unwittingly embarked on, all those years ago, While circuitous and sometimes painful, wasn't so fruitless after all. It isn't hyperbole to say to you now that if you have never enjoyed Jazz, you should buy this album, that if you have never heard of Pat Metheny, you should buy this album, that if you are in search of something in your life and music plays any part at all in that search, then you should most definitely and without hesitation buy this album... Thank you Pat. Thank you Lyle. Thank you Steve. Thank you Dan. Thank you Nana, and thank you, most of all, to my dear friend who opened my mind to the beauty of this music. Where ever you are, I want you to know that I think of you often and hope you are well and have had safe travels... Customer Rating: Summary: The perfect live jazz album Comment: This is one concert I would have loved to be at!! There are so many AWESOME musical moments on this live album!! Get this one ASAP...no disappointments, if your a Pat Metheny fan here... Customer Rating: Summary: THE PMG recording to have Comment: I was into PMG in the early 80's and bought this masterpiece on cassette the week of its release (it was playing in the store where I purchased it). Pat Metheney is truly one of the giants of jazz - breathing the same rarified air as Ellington, Parker, Miles Davis, etc - and really, one of the few of the post-modern jazz players to have achieved that stature. A characteristic that he shares with the greats is that he never really releases a recording that is not in some way fantastic - though some are more listenable than others. However, let it be said along with all the other plaudits he receives here - Travels maybe his finest hour - in my opinion these evocative, intricate, and finally intimate live sessions - my favorite edition of PMG - when the patina of their garage band era still lingered in the footlights - reaches the zenith of their powers and their power riffs - it's their greatest recording. Question and Answer, Still Life Talking, We Live Here - and host of other great ones, yes - but, if, for some crazy reason, you want but one Pat Methany disk - you've found it - this band cooks! Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent CD's can't live forever Comment: Yep, my first copy of this CD that I bought in Japan over 20 years ago finally gave up the ghost. This is one of the best CD's in my collection so I had to buy a fresh new copy to burn onto my iPod. This is one of those "if you were trapped on an island" must have selections. If you're thinking of buying this....stop thinking about it and DO IT, you won't be sorry. Customer Rating: Summary: Vintage Pat Metheny!!!!!!!!!! Comment: The thing about great jazz is that it is timeless. This album of Pat's exemplifies that very timelessness!!!!!!!!!! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: This two-CD set was recorded live during several 1982 concerts, covering music that grew out of the studio recordings As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls and Offramp. At this stage, the Pat Metheny Group was a quintet with longtime partners Lyle Mays on piano, organ, and synthesizers; Dan Gottlieb on drums; Steve Rodby on bass; and Nana Vasconcelos, contributing a distinctive Brazilian element, on percussion and voice. Touring constantly, the group successfully balanced their increasingly electronic sound and spontaneity with Vasconcelos's rhythmic ingenuity, which clearly acted as stimulus to Metheny's consistently inventive guitar work. It's a fitting commemoration of the tremendous success that the Metheny Group had begun to enjoy, both a travelogue of their concert venues and an in-depth look at their diverse material. --Stuart Broomer