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Guitarist Pat Metheny doesn't make enough records in a trio
setting. And the few so far have been short-term stands: the perfectly
titled Bright Size Life (1976), with bassist Jaco Pastorius and drummer
Bob Moses; later dates with major elders like bassists Charlie Haden and
Dave Holland and drummer Roy Haynes; Metheny's 2000 band with Bill
Stewart and Larry Grenadier. Day Trip is Metheny's first record with
bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, and it should not
be the last. McBride and Sanchez are jazzmen with R&B and rock bones,
the former combining a fluid touch with assertive momentum, punching
counter-rhythms between Sanchez's snare-and-tom exclamations. In "The
Red One," McBride and Sanchez push hard in funk and reggae time, forcing
Metheny to throw dirt on his tone and attack. Metheny thrives in a trio
format — the space suits his spiraling runs and the afterring in
his pointed electric sound — and he responds here with excited
improvising in the hypersamba "Son of Thirteen" and the vintage-Wes
Montgomery stroll of "Calvin's Keys." An exception: "Is This America?
(Katrina 2005)," a subdued but emphatic challenge that needs no words to
make its point.
(Posted: Mar 6, 2008)
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Track List
- Son of Thirteen
- At Last You're Here
- Let's Move
- Snova
- Calvin's Keys
- Is This America?
- When We Were Free
- Dreaming Trees
- The Red One
- Day Trip
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