Pat Metheny •••••••••••••••••• One Quiet Night

CONTAINS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BONUS TRACK Pat Metheny •••••••••••••••••• One Quiet Night Pat Metheny’s One Quiet Night, originally released in 2003, is the guitarist’s most simply executed and highly personal set. The night in question was November 24, 2001; the location was the home studio in Metheny’s apartment. Metheny began to play around with a new baritone guitar he had just acquired, exploring what he has described as an unusual “low Nashville tuning.” As he told Downbeat at the time, “I wasn't thinking about anything other than the sound of one note leading me to the next. It was all about discovery. It's about those moments when you're hearing something yourself for the first time. That I had my wits about me to push record and document this experiment was a serendipitous occurrence." Metheny fans agreed, and it became one of his fastest selling – and most critically hailed – CDs. The Boston Globe called it “a spare, almost reverent session of man and guitar.” Downbeat noted, “An earphone listen reveals the spiritual-like ruminations as well as a relaxed and chiming sense of unadorned, heartfelt beauty.” Billboard declared, “The individual pieces are as com- pelling as anything in the guitarist's catalog.” That one evening led to a year of rumination: Metheny took the recorded results of his solitary, wee-small-hours session with him as he toured with the Pat Metheny Group, and he began to see the shape of an album in his musings. In late 2002, his touring over, Metheny decided to cut a few more tracks in the same intuitive, homemade fashion – no overdubs, no other instruments – to complete the disc. He covered a pair of his favorite tunes, Keith Jarrett’s “My Song” and Gerry and the Pace- makers’ British Invasion hit “Ferry Across the Mersey,” as well as Jesse Harris’s “Don’t Know Why,” which Norah Jones had just made famous. This reissued edition also features a bonus track, “In All We See,” previously unreleased in North America on CD. Metheny’s performance remains as heartfelt as it is impromptu; a private, contemplative moment has been transformed into a timeless work. Album Info One Quiet Night Produced by: Pat Metheny Song For The Boys File Under: Jazz Don’t Know Why Format: Jazz / NPR Another Chance To Be Alphabetize Under: M Time Goes On Hometown: New York City My Song Jewelcase with o-card, 4-color 6-panel folding booklet Peace Memory Packaging: Ferry Cross The mersey Box lot: 30 Over On 4th Street Selection #: 517795 I Will Find The Way North To South, East To West Last Train Home In All We See* *bonus track Also Available Upojenie (with Anna Maria Jopek) / 511496 1 CD $15.98 Question & Answer (with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes-Reissue) / 511494 Day Trip / 376828 Street Date: Metheny Mehldau / 104188 May 5, 2009.

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