PAT METHENY GROUP – Houston 1981 (2CD)

Soundboard 9.7 – Crisp and elegant, this describes both the music and the audio fidelity here. The band is in really fine form, actually a good time period.

Pat Metheny Group
1981-03-27
University Of Houston, Cullen Auditorium,
Ezekiel W. Cullen Building,
Houston, Texas, USA, 1981-03-27

Disc 1
01 Phase Dance (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
02 Better Days Ahead (Pat Metheny)
03 The Windup (Keith Jarrett)
04 James (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
05 Offramp (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
06 ‘It’s For You’ (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
07 The Bat Part II (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
08 Ozark (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
09 Turnaround (Ornette Coleman)

Disc 2
10 Goin’ Ahead (Pat Metheny)/As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
11 Jaco (Pat Metheny)
12 Untitled / Au Lait (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
13 San Lorenzo (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
14 (Cross The) Heartland (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)
15 American Garage (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays)

Line-Up:
Pat Metheny, guitars, guitar synthesizer
Lyle Mays, piano, synthesizers, organ, autoharp
Steve Rodby, acoustic bass, electric bass
Dan Gottlieb, drums, autoharp
Naná Vasconcelos, vocals, percussion, berimbau