New Chautauqua

New Chautauqua
New Chautauqua
	Oslo, Norway
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	38:28
Label	ECM 1131
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Pat Metheny chronology

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

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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."^[8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"New Chautauqua"	5:19
2.	"Country Poem"	2:34
3.	"Long-Ago Child/Fallen Star"	10:19

Side two
No.	Title	Length
4.	"Hermitage"	5:39
5.	"Sueño con Mexico"	5:59
6.	"Daybreak"	8:38

Personnel

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

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1979	Billboard Jazz Albums	3
1979	Billboard Pop Albums^[9]	44

References

^ https://ecmrecords.com/product/new-chautauqua-pat-metheny/
^ Brisbane, Arthur S. (28 Apr 1979). "Metheny's 'Chautauqua' Travels New Avenues of Pop". Kansas City Times. p. 9C.
^ Gilmore, Mikal (2011). "Pat Metheny: New Chautauqua : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 31 October 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
^ Jurek, Thom. "New Chautauqua - Pat Metheny | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
ISBN 0-394-72643-X
.

ISBN 978-0195313734
.

ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0
.

^ Bustard, C.A. (2 May 1979). "Revolutions Per Minute". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. B6.

^ "Pat Metheny Billboard 200 Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved December 4, 2023.

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Pat Metheny
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

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)

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)

Authority control databases

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[1] ttps://ecmrecords.com/product/new-chautauqua-pat-metheny/

[2] Brisbane, Arthur S. (28 Apr 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 31 October 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2011.

[4] Jurek, Thom. "New Chautauqua - Pat Metheny | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 21 September 2017.

[RSJRG-5] ISBN 0-394-72643-X
.

[6] ISBN 978-0195313734
.

[Penguin-7] ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0
.

[8] Bustard, C.A. (2 May 1979). "Revolutions Per Minute". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. B6.

[9] "Pat Metheny Billboard 200 Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved December 4, 2023.

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