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Travels
Live album by
Pat Metheny Group
Released1983
RecordedJuly–November 1982
VenuePhiladelphia, Dallas, Sacramento, Hartford, Nacogdoches
GenreJazz fusion
Length96:26
LabelECM
ProducerManfred Eicher, Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny chronology
Offramp
(1982) 		Travels
(1983) 		Rejoicing
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

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.

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

Side one:
No.TitleLength
1."Are You Going with Me?"9:19
2."The Fields, the Sky" (Pat Metheny)7:46
3."Goodbye" (Pat Metheny)8:16
Total length:24:81
Side two:
No.TitleLength
1."Phase Dance"8:03
2."Straight on Red"7:26
3."Farmer's Trust" (Pat Metheny)6:25
Total length:21:54
Side three:
No.TitleLength
1."Extradition" (Pat Metheny)5:45
2."Goin' Ahead/As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"16:22
Total length:21:67
Side four:
No.TitleLength
1."Travels"5:03
2."Song for Bilbao" (Pat Metheny)8:28
3."San Lorenzo"13:35
Total length:26:66

Personnel

Technical staff

  • Randy Ezratty – recording[3]

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 Winner Title Category
1984 Pat Metheny Group Travels Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance

References

  1. ^ Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Travels – Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ 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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