What's It All About (Pat Metheny album)
2011 studio album by Pat Metheny
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Studio album by Pat Metheny | ||||
Released | June 14, 2011 (2011-06-14) | |||
Recorded | February 2011 | |||
Studio | Right Track, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz, folk jazz, Americana | |||
Length | 55:50 | |||
Label | Nonesuch | |||
Producer | Pat Metheny | |||
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What's It All About is a solo album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, released by Nonesuch Records on June 14, 2011. It is Metheny's first album which does not include his own material. On February 12, 2012, What's It All About received a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Sound of Silence" | Paul Simon | 6:33 |
2. | "Cherish" | Terry Kirkman | 5:28 |
3. | "Alfie" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 7:46 |
4. | "Pipeline" | Bob Spickard, Brian Carman | 3:28 |
5. | "Garota de Ipanema" | Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes | 5:12 |
6. | "Rainy Days and Mondays" | Roger Nichols, Paul Williams | 7:12 |
7. | "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" | Carly Simon, Jacob Brackman | 6:03 |
8. | "Slow Hot Wind" | Henry Mancini, Norman Gimbel | 4:28 |
9. | "Betcha by Golly, Wow" | Thom Bell, Linda Creed | 5:18 |
10. | "And I Love Her" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 4:22 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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11. | "'Round Midnight" | Thelonious Monk | 6:37 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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12. | "This Nearly Was Mine" | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | 4:29 |
Personnel
- Pat Metheny – baritone guitar, 42-string guitar (track 1), 6-string guitar (track 4), nylon-string guitar (track 10)
Technical personnel
- Pat Metheny – producer
- Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
- Pat Metheny, Pete Karam, David Oakes – recording
- Pete Karam – mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, NYC, USA
- Barbara de Wilde – design
- Sandrine Lee – photography
Charts
Chart (2011) | Peak position |
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US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard)[3] | 1 |
US Billboard 200[3] | 125 |
Awards
Year | Category |
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2012 | Grammy Award for Best New Age Album |
References
- ^ Jurek, Thom. Pat Metheny: What's It All About > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
- ^ Georgievski, Nenad (9 October 2011). "Pat Metheny: What's It All About". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
- ^ a b "What's It All About - Pat Metheny". Allmusic. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
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- New Chautauqua (1979)
- Zero Tolerance for Silence (1994)
- A Map of the World (1999)
- One Quiet Night (2003)
- Orchestrion (2010)
- The Orchestrion Project (2013)
- What's It All About (2015)
- Road to the Sun (2021)
- As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981, Mays)
- Song X (1986, Coleman)
- Electric Counterpoint (1989)
- I Can See Your House from Here (1994, Scofield)
- Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997, Haden)
- Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999, Hall)
- Upojenie (2002, Jopek)
- Metheny Mehldau (2006, Mehldau)
- Metheny Mehldau Quartet (2007, Mehldau)
- Tap:John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 (2013, Zorn)
- Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016, Vu)