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| Released | May 1982[1] | |||
| Recorded | October 1981 | |||
| Studio | Power Station, New York, USA | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 42:22 | |||
| Label | ECM | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Offramp is the third studio album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1982. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance.[2] It contains the popular ballad "Are You Going with Me?".
Offramp is the first studio album on which Metheny used a guitar synthesizer, a Roland GR-300[3] controlled with a Roland G-303 guitar synthesiser controller.[4] The guitar synthesizer became one of Metheny's most frequently used instruments.
Offramp is also the first Group album to feature vocals, which became a fundamental component of the band's sound. When Metheny and Lyle Mays partnered with Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos on the album As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, they sought to expand the potential of the recording studio as an ensemble instrument and experiment with sounds they hadn't previously utilized. Some of the innovations introduced on Wichita carried over into Offramp, namely Vasconcelos's vocals and percussion stylings.
Bassist Mark Egan was replaced by Steve Rodby, who remained with the Group well into the 2000s and became an important partner in the compositional and production processes between Metheny and Mays.
The Group pays tribute to one of Metheny's biggest influences, pioneering free jazz instrumentalist Ornette Coleman, on the title track, and singer-songwriter James Taylor served as the inspiration for the sixth track, "James."
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [8] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [6] |
Offramp was critically acclaimed and commercially successful at the time of its release. It won the Playboy Readers Poll for Best Jazz Album and the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance,[9] the Group's first of ten Grammys.
The album continues to be acclaimed by critics and fans of the Group for its compositional maturity, technological progressiveness, especially for the time it was recorded, and for introducing key hallmarks of the Group's overall sound, namely the guitar synthesizer and vocals.
It was voted number 669 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[10]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays except where noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Barcarole" | Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Naná Vasconcelos | 3:17 |
| 2. | "Are You Going with Me?" | 8:47 | |
| 3. | "Au Lait" | Lyle Mays | 8:32 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Eighteen" | Metheny, Mays, Vasconcelos | 5:08 |
| 2. | "Offramp" | 5:59 | |
| 3. | "James" | 6:47 | |
| 4. | "The Bat Part II" | 3:50 |
Note
- A composition entitled "The Bat" appeared on Metheny's collaborative jazz album 80/81, in 1980. "The Bat Part II" is a reworking of that song.
Personnel
- Pat Metheny – electric and acoustic guitar, guitar synthesizer, Synclavier
- Lyle Mays – piano, synthesizers, autoharp, electric organ, Synclavier
- Steve Rodby – electric and acoustic bass
- Danny Gottlieb – drums
- Naná Vasconcelos – percussion, voice, berimbau
Charts
Album – Billboard
| Chart (1982) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard Top LPs & Tape | 50 |
| US Billboard Jazz LPs | 1 |
| US Billboard Soul LPs | 43 |
Awards
| Year | Category |
|---|---|
| 1983 | Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance |
References
- ^ "Offramp". ECM.
- ^ Brink, Bob (November 23, 1984). "Metheny Over Miami". The Miami News. pp. C1. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
- ^ Birosik, Patti Jean (1989). The New Age music guide: profiles and recordings of 500 top New Age musicians. Collier Books. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-02-041640-1.
- ^ "Roland G-303 Vintage Guitar Synthesizer Controller - Pat Metheny".
- ^ Henderson, Alex (2011). "Offramp – Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The 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.
- ^ Brink, Bob (November 23, 1984). "Metheny Over Miami". The Miami News. pp. C1. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
- ^ Colin Larkin (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 218. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
