[troutman]

http://www.patmetheny.com/

Day Trip

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...91564/day_trip

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


http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=28284

http://100greatestjazzalbums.blogspo...h-release.html

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