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Featured Release
Pat Metheny
Orchestrion
“Now,” says Pat Metheny, “ten years into the new century, it feels like time to try to create something particularly connected to the reality of this unique period in time.” What he’s created, Orchestrion, is an adventurous “solo” recording that pairs the composer-guitarist with a phalanx of remarkable, custom-made instruments played via solenoid switches and pneumatics, resulting in what the Guardian calls his "most ambitious experiment" yet.
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Pat Metheny
Orchestrion
“Now,” says Pat Metheny, “ten years into the new century, it feels like time to try to create something particularly connected to the reality of this unique period in time.” What he’s created, Orchestrion, is an adventurous “solo” recording that pairs the composer-guitarist with a phalanx of remarkable, custom-made instruments played via solenoid switches and pneumatics, resulting in what the Guardian calls his "most ambitious experiment" yet.
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Pat Metheny
Day Trip / Tokyo Day Trip (LP+CD)
This three-disc vinyl release combines the 2008 Day Trip studio album and Tokyo Day Trip: Live EP in a three-pocket deluxe package with all the music on two CDs as well. “The trio format brings out the best in guitar virtuoso Pat Metheny," declared the Boston Herald upon the Day Trip CD release, calling this ensemble "arguably his best yet.”
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Pat Metheny
One Quiet Night
Metheny settled into his home studio with a new baritone guitar one November evening in 2001 to experiment with a low "Nashville tuning." The result is this no-overdubs solo set of originals and from-the-heart covers. Downbeat has praised its ”spiritual-like ruminations as well as a relaxed and chiming sense of unadorned, heartfelt beauty.” The CD reissue includes the bonus track "In All We See," written by Metheny.
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Pat Metheny
Question and Answer
This newly remastered version of Metheny's 1989 studio jam with two jazz legends, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Roy Haynes, features standards and Metheny originals. The set, says the Washington Post, "has a wonderfully free and spontaneous air about it."
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Pat Metheny
Upojenie
This first US release of the 2002 European hit offers previously unavailable bonus tracks. The set features evocative Polish singer Anna Maria Jopek reimagining well-known Metheny instrumentals with lyrics and vocals. All About Jazz praised "the intensity and creative spark" of Metheny's playing.
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Pat Metheny
Tokyo Day Trip: Live EP
These tracks were recorded live in Tokyo, with Metheny's trio, featuring bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez (“arguably his best” ensemble yet, says the Boston Herald), at the end of 2004, before they went into the studio to record Day Trip.
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Pat Metheny
Day Trip
The Boston Globe calls Day Trip "Metheny at his best, creating music of understated sophistication by interacting sublimely with equally talented musicians" in a trio outing with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez; includes two live Nonesuch Store bonus downloads—"Traveling Fast" and " TromsØ."
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Pat Metheny
Secret Story
The New York Times called Pat Metheny’s 1992 Grammy-winning Secret Story “the most sweepingly ambitious album that the jazz guitarist has yet recorded … a nearly 80-minute world-music suite with symphonic underpinnings.” Includes five previously unreleased tracks restored by Metheny.
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Pat Metheny + Brad Mehldau
Quartet
Mehldau’s rhythm section appears on these expansive tracks from the landmark 2005 Metheny/Mehldau sessions. Says the Washington Post, “[Larry] Grenadier and [Jeff] Ballard provide a rhythmic grounding that seems to focus the two leaders into more sharply shaped phrases.”
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Pat Metheny + Brad Mehldau
Metheny Mehldau
This 2005 studio encounter between Mehldau and Metheny “represents a triumph of risk-taking” (Philadelphia Inquirer). “No ego, no competition,” declares the BBC. “Just a sublime understanding of each other’s skills that produced one of the albums of the year.”