On Pat Metheny's latest Nonesuch release, Day Trip, the guitarist pairs up with his touring partners bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez to record pieces by Pat that All About Jazz contributer J Hunter calls "some of his best."
Hunter writes that the new record finds the trio focusing "on detail and intimacy. Sanchez is busy as all get out, bringing depth to the piece as he bubbles under Metheny's impeccable guitar and McBride's sterling foundation."
Read the review at allaboutjazz.com.
In a separate article on the site, writer Chris May takes the occasion of Day Trip's release and the "untrammeled pleasure" it has given him over the past couple months to make his way through Pat's catalog "in search of another solid gold flix."
He finds it in Song X: Twentieth Anniversary, an expanded and remixed version of Pat's 1985 recording with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released on Nonesuch in 2005. May writes that this was the album that "revealed hitherto hidden depths in Metheny" and exuberantly calls it "the 24-carat muthalode, the ripe mango in the creme brulee" of the catalog, "for it will still scare the shivers out of you, still take you on a ride to beyond ... [I]t hasn't lost one iota of its power or beauty in the 23 years since it was recorded."
"Metheny and Coleman both are just burning," writes May. "Nothing in Metheny's previous recorded work had suggested he was capable of degrees of abandon and ferocity like this."
The writer considers the six new tracks on the 20th anniversary edition to be "astonishingly and wonderfully, as strong as the previously released tracks." In his estimation, "Song X will be working its mojo for many years yet."
To read that article on All About Jazz, click here.
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