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1980 studio album by Pat Metheny From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
80/81 is a double album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny recorded over four days in May 1980 and released on ECM later that year. Metheny leads a quartet consisting of the rhythm section of Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette, with saxophone duties alternating between Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker.
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1980 | |||
Recorded | May 26–29, 1980 | |||
Studio | Talent Studio, Oslo, Norway | |||
Genre | Jazz, folk jazz | |||
Length | 80:25 | |||
Label | ECM 1180/81 | |||
Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
Pat Metheny chronology | ||||
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Metheny toured in the U.S. in fall 1980 with a quartet including Redman, Haden and drummer Paul Motian.[1] In the summer of 1981, he toured Europe with the full 80/81 lineup featured on the album.[2]
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In a review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell wrote that "Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package", and called the album "a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely continued pursuing their electric commercial successes."[3]
In an article at Between Sound and Space, Tyran Grillo called the album a "still-fresh sonic concoction", and noted that "With 80/81, Pat Metheny took one step closer to his dream of working with The Prophet of Freedom (Ornette Coleman) (a dream he finally achieved with 1985's Song X)". He concluded: "Like much of what Metheny produces, 80/81 is wide open in two ways. First in its far-reaching vision, and second it its willingness to embrace the listener. Like a dolly zoom, he enacts an illusion of simultaneous recession and approach, lit like a fuse that leads not to an explosion, but to more fuse."[7]
JazzTimes included the album in an article titled "10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1980s: Critics' Picks", in which Philip Booth stated: "Enlisting four of the musicians he most admired... the 26-year-old guitarist successfully translated the sound in his head to beautifully open, airy, sometimes urgent recordings."[8]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Two Folk Songs: 1st" | 13:17 | |
2. | "Two Folk Songs: 2nd" | Charlie Haden | 7:31 |
All music is composed by Pat Metheny except as noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "80/81" | 7:28 | |
2. | "The Bat" | 5:58 | |
3. | "Turnaround" | Ornette Coleman | 7:05 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Open" |
| 14:25 |
2. | "Pretty Scattered" | 6:56 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Every Day (I Thank You)" | 13:16 |
2. | "Goin' Ahead" | 3:56 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Two Folk Songs: One / Two" | 20:52 |
2. | "Every Day (I Thank You)" | 13:21 |
3. | "Goin' Ahead" | 3:51 |
4. | "80/81" | 7:34 |
5. | "The Bat" | 6:05 |
6. | "Turnaround" | 7:04 |