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Travels

Pat Metheny Group

1983 · Jazz

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Travels by Pat Metheny Group

Travels is a Jazz album by Pat Metheny Group, originally released in 1983. On Gatefold: 56 pressings tracked, owned by 6 collectors.

About

Following up three previous studio albums, this Grammy-winning double live LP from 1983 was a peak early achievement of the Pat Metheny-Lyle Mays collaboration known as the Pat Metheny Group, the guitarist’s main expressive vehicle up until 2005. (Another double live album, <i>The Road to You</i>, would follow in 1993.) Metheny’s guitar chops hadn’t yet reached the level of speed and clarity he would soon display on <i>First Circle</i> and <i>Still Life (Talking)</i>. But the Roland synth guitar solos on “Extradition,” “Song for Bilbao,” and the opening “Are You Going With Me?” are landmarks nonetheless. The plaintive ballads “Goodbye,” “Farmer’s Trust,” and “Travels” are melodic gold, as are the breezy eclectic numbers “Straight on Red” and “The Fields the Sky.” Lyle Mays’ keyboards always gave the PMG a broad and unique sonic profile, but <i>Travels</i> also finds Mays stretching on acoustic piano, in solos that sparkle with invention.

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Tracklist

Side A

  1. A1Are You Going With Me?9:20
  2. A2The Fields, The Sky7:50
  3. A3Goodbye8:15

Side B

  1. B1Phase Dance8:05
  2. B2Straight On Red7:27
  3. B3Farmer's Trust6:27

Side C

  1. C1Extradition5:42
  1. Goin' Ahead / As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls16:24

Side D

  1. D1Travels5:04
  2. D2Song For Bilbao8:27
  3. D3San Lorenzo13:38

Sound DNA

  • Jazz
  • Jazz Fusion
  • clean
  • serene
  • pastoral

Album notes

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Recordings taken from concerts in Dallas (TX), Philadelphia (PA), Sacramento (CA) and Nacogdoches (TX).
Recorded in July, October and November 1982

Credits

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Performers

  • Danny GottliebDRUMS
  • Lyle MaysPIANO, SYNTHESIZER , ORGAN, AUTOHARP, SYNTHESIZER PIANO, SYNTHESIZER, ORGAN PIANO, SYNTHESIZER, ORGAN, AUTOHARP
  • Naná VasconcelosGUEST , PERCUSSION, VOICE, BERIMBAU GUEST, PERCUSSION, VOICE, BERIMBAU PERCUSSION, VOCALS, BERIMBAU
  • Pat MethenyGUITAR , GUITAR SYNTHESIZER GUITAR, GUITAR SYNTHESIZER
  • Steve RodbyACOUSTIC BASS, ELECTRIC BASS, SYNTH BASS ACOUSTIC BASS, ELECTRIC BASS, SYNTHESIZER BASS

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