Travels (Pat Metheny Group album)

Travels
Travels
Live album by Pat Metheny Group
Released	1983
Recorded	July–November 1982
Venue	Philadelphia, Dallas, Sacramento, Hartford, Nacogdoches
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	96:26
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher, Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

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

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

It was voted number 570 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).^[5]

Travels was recorded as part of the tour for the Group's 1982 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.

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays except where noted.

Disc one:
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Are You Going with Me?"		9:19
2.	"The Fields, the Sky"	Metheny	7:46
3.	"Goodbye"	Metheny	8:16
4.	"Phase Dance"		8:03
5.	"Straight on Red"		7:26
6.	"Farmer's Trust"	Metheny	6:25

Disc two:
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Extradition"	Metheny	5:45
2.	"Goin' Ahead/As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"		16:22
3.	"Travels"		5:03
4.	"Song for Bilbao"	Metheny	8:28
5.	"San Lorenzo"		13:35

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^[6]

Charts[]

Album – Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1983	Billboard Jazz Albums	3
1983	Billboard Pop Albums	62
1983	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	8

Awards[]

Grammy Awards

Year	Category
1984	Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance

References[]

^ Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Travels – Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 994. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Colin Larkin (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 193. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
^ Verna, Paul (9 March 1996). "Effanel Rolls with the times Aboard Monster Truck". Billboard. pp. 46–47. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

[1] Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Travels – Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.

[RSJRG-2] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[3] Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 994. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[Larkin-5] Colin Larkin (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 193. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.

[6] Verna, Paul (9 March 1996). "Effanel Rolls with the times Aboard Monster Truck". Billboard. pp. 46–47. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

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