“[Day Trip] reminds us why Metheny remains, after more than 30 years, one of the most popular figures in jazz”—Boston Globe

On the heels of initial critical praise for his new trio album Day Trip—released January 29 on Nonesuch Records—Pat Metheny embarks on a series of live dates beginning February 19 in California. The performances will feature the group with whom Metheny recorded Day Trip, Christian McBride (bass) and Antonio Sanchez (drums). The albumis the group’s first recording together. (Please see reverse for a complete list of tour dates.)

“The guitarist Pat Metheny has made some of his most engagingly forthright music in trios,” according The New York Times.“It’s no small thing that Day Trip, his second [trio recording] since the turn of the century, is at least as good as any of the others.” Jazz Times submits, “Metheny is still among the most authoritative of jazz artists. Day Trip bears that out especially well.”

This trio was formed by Metheny in 2002 and has played concerts all around the globe with performances in Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa and all across the United States and Canada. The group finally made it into the studio to record this music on a single day off during one of their most recent U.S. tours. All ten tracks on Day Trip are original Metheny compositions, including “Is This America? (Katrina 2005),” a song about the devastation in New Orleans, and “The Red One,” which first appeared on the John Scofield and Pat Metheny album I Can See Your House From Here (Blue Note 1994).

Over the course of three decades, guitarist Pat Metheny has set himself apart from the jazz mainstream, expanding and blurring boundaries and musical styles. His body of work includes seventeen GRAMMY Awards in nine separate categories (breaking the record for multi-category wins); a series of influential trio recordings; award winning solo albums; scores for hit Hollywood motion pictures; and collaborations and duets with major artists such as Ornette Coleman, Steve Reich, Charlie Haden, Jim Hall and many others. His band, the Pat Metheny Group, founded in 1977, is the only ensemble in history to win GRAMMYs for seven consecutive releases.

In addition to his own critically acclaimed recordings, Christian McBride is known as the first-call bassist for a vast array of jazz’s most influential artists. He has played with Diana Krall, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Joshua Redman, Jack DeJohnette, Roy Haynes, Chick Corea, and Ray Brown’s “Superbass” with John Clayton, among others—as well as pop, soul, and classical musicians like Kathleen Battle, Carly Simon, Sting, Queen Latifa and the late James Brown.

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