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Travels (Pat Metheny Group album)

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Released
  
1983

Length
  
96:26

Travels (1983)
  
First Circle (1984)

Release date
  
1983

Recorded
  
July–November 1982

Label
  
ECM

Artist
  
Pat Metheny Group

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz fusion

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Venue
  
Philadelphia, Dallas, Sacramento, Hartford, Nacogdoches

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance

Producers
  
Manfred Eicher, Pat Metheny

Similar
  
Pat Metheny Group albums, Jazz albums

Pat metheny travels


Travels is the Pat Metheny Group's first live album, released in 1983. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance.

Contents

The album consists of live material recorded in July, October, and November 1982, in Philadelphia, Dallas, Sacramento (California), Hartford (Connecticut), and Nacogdoches (Texas). The Group for this album consisted of Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Dan Gottlieb, and guest Nana Vasconcelos.

Travels was recorded as part of the tour for the Group's studio album, Offramp, but also featured previously unrecorded and unreleased songs.

In the liner notes for his ECM Rarum compilation album, Metheny expressed great love for the live rendition of "Are You Going With Me?" and appreciated the audience for whom it was played in Philadelphia.

The track "Song for Bilbao," dedicated to audiences in Bilbao, Spain, was often played as an encore.

Personnel

  • Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer
  • Lyle Mays – piano, synthesizers, electric organ, autoharp, Synclavier
  • Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass, bass synthesizer
  • Danny Gottlieb – drums
  • Nana Vasconcelos – percussion, voice, berimbau
  • Technical staff

  • Randy Ezratty – recording
  • Charts

    AlbumBillboard

    Awards

    Grammy Awards

    Songs

    1Are You Going With Me?9:18
    2The Fields - the Sky7:47
    3Goodbye8:16

    References

    Travels (Pat Metheny Group album) Wikipedia