Quartet (Pat Metheny album)

Quartet
Studio album by Pat Metheny Group
Released	1996
Recorded	May 1996
Studio	Right Track Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Length	66:01
Label	Geffen
Producer	Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny chronology
We Live Here (1995) Quartet (1996) Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997)

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Quartet (1996) is the eighth album by the Pat Metheny Group. The album features Pat Metheny on guitar, Lyle Mays on keyboards, Steve Rodby on bass, and Paul Wertico on drums. Most of the tracks were loosely written or improvised, using several unusual instruments. The Group itself never played these songs live, though Metheny played a longer version of "When We Were Free" with his trio on the album Day Trip. "As I Am" was also recorded in Michael Brecker's 1999 album Time Is of the Essence and performed during trio concerts with Brecker.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Introduction"		0:56
2.	"When We Were Free"		5:39
3.	"Montevideo"	Metheny, Mays, Rodby, Wertico	2:55
4.	"Take Me There"	Metheny, Mays	3:39
5.	"Seven Days"		4:04
6.	"Oceania"	Mays	3:47
7.	"Dismantling Utopia"	Metheny, Mays, Rodby, Wertico	6:52
8.	"Double Blind"	Mays	4:15
9.	"Second Thought"		2:50
10.	"Mojave"		3:37
11.	"Badland"	Metheny, Mays, Rodby, Wertico	7:31
12.	"Glacier"	Mays	1:25
13.	"Language of Time"	Metheny, Mays	7:33
14.	"Sometimes I See"		6:01
15.	"As I Am"		5:04

Personnel

• Pat Metheny – 12-string guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, slide guitar, guitar synthesizer, 42-string Pikasso guitar
• Lyle Mays – autoharp, celeste, clavichord, harmonium, piano, electric piano
• Steve Rodby – double bass, piccolo bass
• Paul Wertico – drums, percussion

Technical staff

• Rob Eaton – engineer, mixing
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Joe Lizzi – assistant engineer
• David Oakes – associate producer, technical coordinator