New Chautauqua

1979 studio album by Pat Metheny

New Chautauqua

Studio album by

Pat Metheny

Released| March 1, 1979 (1979-03-01)[1]
Recorded| August 1978
Studio| Talent, Oslo, Norway
Genre| Jazz fusion[2]
Length| 38:28
Label| ECM
Producer| Manfred Eicher
Pat Metheny chronology
| Pat Metheny Group
(1978)  | New Chautauqua
(1979)  | American Garage
(1979)

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New Chautauqua is a solo album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, recorded in August 1978 and released on ECM in April 1979.

## Critical reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [4]
DownBeat| [8]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music| [6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [7]
Rolling Stone| (mixed)[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [5]

The Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote: "For all its delights, and they are considerable, Metheny's first solo venture is an exercise in arrangement and effect. As pure music, it drifts. The listener's attention does likewise."[9]

## Track listing

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All tracks are written by Pat Metheny.

Side oneNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "New Chautauqua"| 5:19
2.| "Country Poem"| 2:34
3.| "Long-Ago Child/Fallen Star"| 10:19

Side twoNo.| Title| Length

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4.| "Hermitage"| 5:39
5.| "Sueño con Mexico"| 5:59
6.| "Daybreak"| 8:38

## Personnel

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* Pat Metheny – electric 6- and 12-string guitars, acoustic guitar, 15-string harp guitar, electric bass

## Charts

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Year  | Chart  | Position

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1979  | Billboard Jazz Albums  | 3
1979  | Billboard Pop Albums[10] | 44

## References

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1. ^ "New Chautauqua".
2. ^ Brisbane, Arthur S. (April 28, 1979). "Metheny's 'Chautauqua' Travels New Avenues of Pop". Kansas City Times. p. 9C.
3. ^ Gilmore, Mikal (2011). "Pat Metheny: New Chautauqua : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
4. ^ Jurek, Thom. "New Chautauqua - Pat Metheny | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
7. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 993\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
8. ^ DownBeat review, September 6, 1979, p. 36
9. ^ Bustard, C.A. (May 2, 1979). "Revolutions Per Minute". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. B6.
10. ^ "Pat Metheny Billboard 200 Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved December 4, 2023.

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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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