Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1652 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-29
• Number of discs: 1

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Our job is to be deeply in the moment, says Pat Metheny. Day Trip, the first release from Metheny's current trio lineup, featuring bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, vividly depicts the group at one particularly inspired moment. As Metheny explains, We did it the old-school way. We'd been touring for about four or five years at different times and then went in and recorded, rather than making a record and touring behind it. We worked like gangbusters and finished in a day, so the title Day Trip fit. Besides, this is kind of a trip band; they take you on a journey. The Day Trip sessions were recorded at Manhattan’s Right Track studio in late October 2005 and sequenced into a ten-song set earlier this year. The album is being released in conjunction with a national tour the trio will embark upon in February 2008. Metheny already reconvened the group this fall for an enthusiastically received series of small market dates at colleges and theatres; the trio ended its preliminary run with four concerts in South Africa. Reviews from the daily U.S. press along the way have been a compendium of superlatives. The Buffalo News declared, Metheny is sharing his musical soul with the two finest musicians of their generation. The Times Union of Albany concurred: Christian McBride on stand-up bass and drummer Antonio Sanchez wove their way into Metheny’s music... and played with a telepathic virtuosity. And the Louisville Courier Journal summed up the nightly reaction to the trio’s sets: It was a collaborative tour de force that earned a standing ovation. Christian is an amazing musician and Antonio is the drummer of this generation, says Metheny. 35 year-old bassist McBride had played alongside Roy Hargrove, Freddie Hubbard and others, before stepping up to lead his own group; 36 year-old drummer Sanchez is a member of The Pat Metheny Group. On Day Trip, Metheny offers plenty of excitement in his solos and the trio cranks up the funk on "The Red One", (a version of which was previously released on Metheny’s collaboration with John Scofield "I Can See Your House From Here"). However they generally eschew flash for a more easy-going groove; McBride calls it a softer, more traditional sound. Perhaps most eloquent among these tracks is the elegiac, folk-like melody of "Is This America?" (Katrina 2005). 2007 was an exceptional year for Metheny.

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Customer Reviews

Another great one
Buy this one now. We'll all be enjoying it for years to come. I find the drummer especially good, as well.

Day Trip: Dynamic Post-Bop Perfection
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.

The best guitar player.
Yes Pat is the best guitar player in the world,he is a great master,composer,arranger a GREAT Musician.I saw him live at the Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz fest this june'08 with the band,McBride on bass,and Sanchez on drums,the whole crowd were out of words after his performance.The best record No Doubt.