Pat Metheny Trio - Day Trip
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Free Music Review: Day Trip: Dynamic Post-Bop Perfection
Hit: 5 Stars
This is amongst Pat Metheny's finest releases to date. To begin with, this trio is amazing, and I would go as far as to say that it's my favorite Metheny trio.
Antonio Sanchez's drumming perfectly contemplates Metheny's fluid, beautiful, and deeply articulate post-bop phrasing with such artful cleverness. He plays quietly, hanging in the background to allow Metheny to have his say, while making perfect elaborations with heavy cymbal use, but also not being afraid to speak up when the time is right, and exploding into drumming reminiscent of hard-bop Art Blakey.
Bassist Christian McBride is solid and is the glue that holds this magnificent trio together. He stays low and constant underneath Metheny's speedy and precise phrasing, while also keeping perfect rhythm with Antonio's abstract and artful drumming. Also speaks up when the time is right, though those moments are a bit sparse on this album, given the nature of the music and overall pace of Metheny and Antonio together.
Metheny is at his finest in this album. Upon a first listen I was unable to get into the new tone that Metheny had adopted, being a die-hard fan of Bright Size Life, I was lost without the cutting and sharp treble tone of Bright Size Life. Nevertheless, I continued to listen and found this album to be just as good, if not better. Metheny's tone has evolved quite a bit over the years and it's perfect for what he's playing and whose he's playing with on this album. His phrasing has become beyond exceptional and the soft lyrical quality of his phrases have become incredibly sophisticated to a profound point of articulation that leaves the listener speechless.
Not to mention the deep passion and emotion that lurks and is revealed through this album is dynamic, gorgeous, and revelatory. Day trip will always be one of my favorite Jazz albums of all time. If you are ever considering buying this album then I would suggest that you stop even "considering" it, and just buy it and give it a listen. And listen a few times. There's so much depth buried in the passions of this album that you will discover and feel more and more each time you listen through it.
Free Music Review: Stunningly beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
Guitarist Pat Metheny gets together with what he calls "two of the best people on earth"; drummer Antonio Sanchez and bassist Christian McBride - all three of them geniuses in their respective fields, if you ask me - for this beautiful set of 10 songs lasting just over one hour. I often find myself searching for words when reviewing any Pat Metheny project. What's there to say anyway, apart from, it's stunningly beautiful and just as good as (if not better than) I expected it to be? It is very true though, that no new musical ground is broken on this disc - hence the "more of the same" comment by a previous reviewer; a comment I tend to agree with - but that doesn't bother me much. I don't think I could ever get bored of music by Pat Metheny and the album loses no stars from me as a result.
Metheny plays electric guitar for the most, only choosing acoustic guitar on the thinly veiled political lament "Is This America? (katrina 2005)", on which McBride takes a bow to his bass, and then again on "Dreaming Trees". He also plays his trademark guitar synth on "When We Were Free", a cover of a song that originally appeared on the Pat Metheny Group 1996 album Quartet and again on "The Red One", another one I've heard before on I Can See Your House from Here, the 1994 album Pat made with John Scofield. Sanchez and McBride make sure the covers work, in that they both actually add something new to the originals, which were pretty awesome to begin with. Kudos to them.
The guitar/bass/drums trio format has always been my favourite of them all and this particular trio has not let me down. Pick this up if you're a Metheny fan or just interested in sampling some good jazz guitar. It's worth every penny.
One question though, Pat: When's the next PMG album due? It's been three years already!
Free Music Review: Rock-solid from start to finish, just beautiful.
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm not going to review this one track-by-track, because it is simply pristine jazz trio music, and that's all you really need to know.
The stand-out track for me was the 9-minute "When We Were Free," which succeeds largely on the Tony Williams-style drumming of Antonio Sanchez. If there is a lesson to be learned from Miles' "Second Great Quintet" or the Impulse years of John Coltrane, it is that the drummer is NOT simply there to "keep time." As much as I enjoy the entire CD, I'd like to see more of the toughness of "When We Were Free" spread over the course of an entire album. It's a throwback to Pat's glory days of "Travels" and particularly stand-out tracks like "Are You Going With Me?," with less of the "New Age" overtones that were popular at the time and more of the aforementioned Miles / Trane attitude improvisation.
It's wonderful to know that in the current day, Pat Metheny is stil fired up and filled with creativity. This album...as well as its companion piece, the live EP "Tokyo Day Trip"...should be in the library of every enthusiast of this genre.
Free Music Review: a trip worth taking
Hit: 5 Stars
the new pat metheny day trip cd is a nice work worth investing in, there is a new rendition of when we were free that is enticing, i went to see this trio back in october of 07 in glen ellyn illinois, the show was great pat always steps it up in live performances , at last your here is a sweet subtle tune ,lets move kicks it up a little, if your a pat metheny fan there is no need for anyone to sell you this cd you will buy it yourself all i can say is for new fans if your into jazz trios with imagination this should fit the bill, as for the reviews about the same old thing there were several moments i was astounded by different twist and turns of creativity within every song so i dispute that, listen for yourself id tell you to enjoy but im not worried about that is almost guaranteed pat metheny on guitar, christian mcbride on bass, after seeing chris live i was floored, antonio sanchez,on drums a jack dejohnette with the energy of a thirty something never a dull moment during this tripFree Music Review: Gooood Listening!
Hit: 5 Stars
Mr. Metheny has managed to do it again. He has produced a CD full of good Jazz with a sound that reflects some of the Jazz greats. He did it all with real musical instruments, none of that synthetic junk which seems to dominate the music world today.
As always his love affair with his Genre and that guitar really shines through, with timing next to none. His accompanists, are all to be comended for a job well done.
Included is a track which seems to be a protest of the condition of America today, "Is This America," and the equally lamenting "When We Were Free." Some might dispute, but I am guessing this is his protest, and statement. All in all this is a good addition to any Jazz lover's collection. Happy listening.