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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

Length

1:16:33

Pat Metheny, Steve Rodby

Pat Metheny chronology

Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
(2016)

From This Place
(2020)

Road to the Sun
(2021)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Guardian
PopMatters

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

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny.

No.	Title	Length
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"	9:35
10.	"Love May Take A While" (bonus track)	5:57
Total length:		1:16:33

Personnel

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.

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

"Critic Reviews for From This Place". Metacritic.
Jurek, Thom. "Pat Metheny – From This Place". AllMusic.
Fordham, John (March 6, 2020). "Pat Metheny: From This Place review – wide-horizons music with freewheeling relish". The Guardian. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
Layman, Will (April 13, 2020). "Pat Metheny Adds Strings to His Quartet on From This Place". PopMatters. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
"Pat Metheny : News: NEW ALBUM 'FROM THIS PLACE' AVAILABLE NOW". www.patmetheny.com. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
West, Michael J. "Pat Metheny: From This Place (Nonesuch)". JazzTimes. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
From This Place - Pat Metheny | Credits | AllMusic, retrieved 2020-09-16

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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)
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

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)