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1983 live album by Pat Metheny Group
Travels is a live double album by the Pat Metheny Group recorded in July, October, and November 1982 and released on ECM the following year. The quintet features pianist Lyle Mays and rhythm section Steve Rodby and Dan Gottlieb , with guest Nana Vasconcelos .
It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance .
Background
The eleven tracks were recorded in Philadelphia, Dallas, Sacramento, Hartford, and Nacogdoches , Texas, while on tour in America for Offramp (1982).
Reception
It was voted number 570 in the third edition of Colin Larkin 's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[ 5]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays except where noted
Side II Title Writer(s) 1. "Phase Dance" 8:03 2. "Straight on Red" 7:26 3. "Farmer's Trust" Metheny 6:25
Side III Title Writer(s) 1. "Extradition" Metheny 5:45 2. "Goin' Ahead/As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" 16:22
Side IV Title Writer(s) 1. "Travels" 5:03 2. "Song for Bilbao" Metheny 8:28 3. "San Lorenzo" 13:35
Personnel
Pat Metheny Group
Technical personnel
Manfred Eicher , Pat Metheny – producer
Jan Erik Kongshaug – mixing engineer
Randy Ezratty – live recording engineer
Gary Geller – assistant live recording engineer
Dieter Rehm – design
Dieter Rehm, Milan Horacek, Jähnig – cover photographs
Ron Pownall – liner photographs
Charts
Awards
Grammy Awards
References
Group albums
As leader
As group member/side man
Solo albums Collaborations
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981, Mays )
Song X (1986, Coleman )
Electric Counterpoint (1989)
I Can See Your House from Here (1994, Scofield )
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997, Haden )
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999, Hall )
Upojenie (2002, Jopek )
Metheny Mehldau (2006, Mehldau )
Metheny Mehldau Quartet (2007, Mehldau)
Tap:John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 (2013, Zorn )
Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016, Vu )