Travels (Pat Metheny Group album)

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

Offramp
(1982)

Travels
(1983)

Rejoicing
(1984)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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 (California), Hartford (Connecticut), 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 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

Side I
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Are You Going With Me?"	Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays	9:19
2.	"The Fields, the Sky"	Metheny	7:46
3.	"Goodbye"	Metheny	8:16

Side II
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Phase Dance"	Metheny, Mays	8:03
2.	"Straight on Red"	Metheny, Mays	7:26
3.	"Farmer's Trust"	Metheny	6:25

Side III
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Extradition"	Metheny	5:45
2.	"Goin' Ahead ~ As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"	Metheny, Mays	16:22

Side IV
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Travels"	Metheny, Mays	5:03
2.	"Song for Bilbao"	Metheny	8:28
3.	"San Lorenzo"	Metheny, Mays	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^[3]

Charts

Album – Billboard

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

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Winner	Category
1984	Pat Metheny Group	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. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
↑ Verna, Paul (9 March 1996). "Effanel Rolls with the times Aboard Monster Truck". Billboard. pp. 46–47. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny Lyle Mays Steve Rodby Antonio Sanchez Cuong Vu Grégoire Maret Nando Lauria Mark Egan Danny Gottlieb Naná Vasconcelos Pedro Aznar Paul Wertico Armando Marcal David Blamires Mark Ledford Luis Conte Richard Bona
Discography	Pat Metheny Group (1978) American Garage (1979) Offramp (1982) Travels (1983) First Circle (1984) The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Still Life (Talking) (1987) Letter from Home (1989) The Road to You (1993) We Live Here (1995) Quartet (1996) Imaginary Day (1997) Speaking of Now (2002) The Way Up (2005) Essential Collection Last Train Home (2015)

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