From This Place

2020 studio album by Pat Metheny

From This Place

Studio album by

Pat Metheny

Released| February 21, 2020 (2020-02-21)
Studio| Avatar Studios in New York City, Sony Scoring Stage (orchestra) and Igloo Studio (percussion) in Los Angeles
Genre| Jazz Fusion
Length| 1:16:37
Label| Nonesuch
Producer| Pat Metheny, Steve Rodby
Pat Metheny chronology
| Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
(2016)  | From This Place
(2020)  | Road to the Sun
(2021)

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Professional ratingsAggregate scores

Source| Rating
Metacritic| 79/100[1]
Review scores
Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
The Guardian| [3]
PopMatters| [4]

From This Place is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, released in February 2020 on the Nonesuch label.[5]

## Track listing

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All tracks are written by Pat Metheny.[6]

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "America Undefined"| 13:22
2.| "Wide and Far"| 8:26
3.| "You Are"| 6:13
4.| "Same River"| 6:43
5.| "Pathmaker"| 8:19
6.| "The Past in Us"| 6:23
7.| "Everything Explained"| 6:52
8.| "From This Place"| 4:40
9.| "Sixty-Six"| 9:38
10.| "Love May Take A While" (bonus track)| 5:57
Total length:| 1:16:37

## Personnel

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The image on the front cover is of a Category F5 tornado approaching Elie, Manitoba.

The individuals involved in the making of the album include Metheny and his traveling ensemble, plus a number of studio musicians, listed below.[7]

* Pat Metheny – guitars, keyboards, arranger, composer, producer
* Gwilym Simcock – piano, arranger
* Linda May Han Oh – bass, vocals, arranger
* Antonio Sánchez – drums

Guest artists

* Meshell Ndegeocello – lyricist, vocals
* Grégoire Maret – harmonica
* Luis Conte – percussion
* Alison Riley – lyricist
* Hollywood Studio Symphony with Joel McNeely conductor

## References

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1. ^ "Critic Reviews for From This Place". Metacritic.
2. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Pat Metheny – From This Place". AllMusic.
3. ^ Fordham, John (March 6, 2020). "Pat Metheny: From This Place review – wide-horizons music with freewheeling relish". The Guardian. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
4. ^ Layman, Will (April 13, 2020). "Pat Metheny Adds Strings to His Quartet on From This Place". PopMatters. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
5. ^ "Pat Metheny : News: NEW ALBUM 'FROM THIS PLACE' AVAILABLE NOW". www.patmetheny.com. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
6. ^ West, Michael J. "Pat Metheny: From This Place (Nonesuch)". JazzTimes. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
7. ^ From This Place - Pat Metheny | Credits | AllMusic, retrieved September 16, 2020

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Pat Metheny

Discography

Group albums|

| As leader|

| Pat Metheny Group|

* Pat Metheny Group (1978)
* American Garage (1979)
* Offramp (1982)
* Travels (1983)
* First Circle (1984)
* The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
* Still Life (Talking) (1987)
* Letter from Home (1989)
* The Road to You (1993)
* We Live Here (1995)
* Quartet (1996)
* Imaginary Day (1997)
* Speaking of Now (2002)
* The Way Up (2005)

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Others|

* Bright Size Life (1976)
* Watercolors (1977)
* 80/81 (1980)
* Rejoicing (1984)
* Question and Answer (1990)
* Secret Story (1992)
* Flower Hour (1992)
* Trio 99 → 00 (2000)
* Trio → Live (2000)
* Day Trip (2008)
* Tokyo Day Trip (2008)
* Unity Band (2012)
* Kin (←→) (2014)
* The Unity Sessions (2016)
* From This Place (2020)

As group member/side man|

* Jaco (1974)
* Ring (1974)
* Dreams So Real - Music of Carla Bley (1975)
* Passengers (1976)
* Shadows and Light (1980)
* Michael Brecker (1987)
* Parallel Realities (1990)
* Reunion (1990)
* Till We Have Faces (1992)
* Wish (1993)
* Blues for Pat: Live in San Francisco (1995)
* Tales from the Hudson (1996)
* Like Minds (1998)
* The Sound of Summer Running (1998)
* Time Is of the Essence (1999)
* Nearness of You: The Ballad Book (2001)
* Upojenie (2002)
* Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years, 1968–1978 (2003)
* Pilgrimage (2007)
* Quartet Live (2009)
* Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015)

Solo albums|

* New Chautauqua (1979)
* Zero Tolerance for Silence (1994)
* A Map of the World (1999)
* One Quiet Night (2003)
* Orchestrion (2010)
* What's It All About (2011)
* The Orchestrion Project (2013)
* Road to the Sun (2021)
* Dream Box (2023)
* MoonDial (2024)

Collaborations|

* 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)

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