Quartet is an album by the Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group

The Pat Metheny Group is a jazz group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays , and bassist and producer Steve Rodby...

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On Quartet Pat Metheny combines his guitar with bassist Steve Rodby

Steve Rodby

Steve Rodby is an American bassist.He joined the Pat Metheny Group in 1981. Prior to joining Metheny, he was a member of the Simon-Bard Group and the Fred Simon ensemble. Rodby continues to collaborate with Simon .Rodby studied bass at Northwestern University, a student of Warren Benfield of the...

, drummer Paul Wertico

Paul Wertico

Paul Wertico is an American drummer. He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to spend more time with his family and to pursue other musical interests. Metheny heard the Simon Bard Group with Wertico and bassist Steve Rodby, and invited...

, and the writing abilities and keyboarding of Lyle Mays

Lyle Mays

Lyle Mays is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group...

. The slow and relaxed sounds are largely improvisations, as the tracks were loosely written or completely improvised on the spot. This gives the album a very experimental and dark feel. The album is mostly acoustic, introducing the Pikasso 42 string guitar as well as other new acoustic guitars. Metheny's GR300 synth guitar is featured on Oceania and Language of Time. The Metheny Group never played these songs live. Metheny himself played When we were free with his trio and recorded a version on Daytrip. As I am was played during trio concerts with the late Michael Brecker.

Track listing

1. "Introduction" (Pat Metheny) – 0:57
2. "When We Were Free" (Metheny and Lyle Mays
   Lyle Mays
   Lyle Mays is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group...
   
   ) – 5:39
3. "Montevideo" (Metheny, Mays, Rodby, & Wertico) – 2:55
4. "Take Me There" (Metheny and Mays) – 3:39
5. "Seven Days" (Metheny) – 4:05
6. "Oceania" (Mays) – 3:47
7. "Dismantling Utopia" (Metheny, Mays, Rodby & Wertico) – 6:53
8. "Double Blind" (Mays) – 4:15
9. "Second Thought" (Metheny) – 2:51
10. "Mojave" (Metheny and Mays) – 3:38
11. "Badland" (Metheny, Mays, Rodby, & Wertico) – 7:31
12. "Glacier" (Mays) – 1:26
13. "Language of Time" (Mays & Metheny) – 7:33
14. "Sometimes I See" (Metheny) – 6:01
15. "As I Am" (Metheny) – 5:05

Personnel

Musicians:

• Lyle Mays
  Lyle Mays
  Lyle Mays is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group...
  
   – Autoharp
  Autoharp
  The autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when depressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, but a chorded zither. -History:There is debate over the...
  
  , Celeste, Clavinet
  Clavinet
  A Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...
  
  , Harmonium
  Harmonium
  A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...
  
  , Piano, Electric Piano
  Electric piano
  An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
  
  
• Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
  
   – Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  , Electric Guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , Synthesizer Guitar, Slide Guitar
  Slide guitar
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
  
  
• Steve Rodby
  Steve Rodby
  Steve Rodby is an American bassist.He joined the Pat Metheny Group in 1981. Prior to joining Metheny, he was a member of the Simon-Bard Group and the Fred Simon ensemble. Rodby continues to collaborate with Simon .Rodby studied bass at Northwestern University, a student of Warren Benfield of the...
  
   – Acoustic Bass
  Acoustic bass
  The term acoustic bass may refer to one of the following bass instruments:*Double bass - an upright contrabass violin*Acoustic bass guitar - the acoustic version of the bass guitar...
  
  , Piccolo Bass
• Paul Wertico
  Paul Wertico
  Paul Wertico is an American drummer. He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to spend more time with his family and to pursue other musical interests. Metheny heard the Simon Bard Group with Wertico and bassist Steve Rodby, and invited...
  
   – Drums, Percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  

Production:

• Latifah Azhar – Photography
• David Cantor – Photography
• Carolyn Chrzan – Guitar Technician
• Rob Eaton – Engineer, Mixing
• Greenberg Kingsley – Art Direction, Design
• Ted Jensen – Mastering
• Joe Lizzi – Assistant Engineer
• David Oakes – Associate Producer, Technical Coordinator
• Tom Sheehan – Piano Technician, Piano Tuner
• David Sholemson – Project Coordinator