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2007 studio album by Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier

Metheny Mehldau Quartet

Studio album by Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier

Released

March 13, 2007 (2007-03-13)

Recorded

December 2005

Studio

Right Track, New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

73:14

Pat Metheny chronology

Metheny Mehldau
(2006)

Metheny Mehldau Quartet
(2007)

Day Trip
(2008)

Brad Mehldau chronology

Metheny Mehldau
(2006)

Metheny Mehldau Quartet
(2007)

Brad Mehldau Trio Live
(2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz

Metheny Mehldau Quartet is a jazz album by guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau, released in 2007 by Nonesuch Records. It features bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard.

Background

An earlier disc from the pair, Metheny Mehldau, was released in 2006 and contains mostly duet recordings with the exception of two tracks. On this album, however, Mehldau's two trio men, Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier, are much more present, hence the title of the album.

The tracks on Metheny Mehldau Quartet come from the same December 2005 recording sessions between Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau that produced Metheny Mehldau.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Night Away"	Metheny, Mehldau	7:59
2.	"The Sound of Water"		3:53
3.	"Fear and Trembling"	Mehldau	6:56
4.	"Don't Wait"		7:08
5.	"Towards the Light"		8:10
6.	"Long Before"		6:57
7.	"En La Tierra Que No Olvida"		7:43
8.	"Santa Cruz Slacker"	Mehldau	6:09
9.	"Secret Beach"	Mehldau	9:07
10.	"Silent Movie"		6:03
11.	"Marta's Theme" (from "Passagio per il Paradiso")		2:31
Total length:			73:14

Personnel

Pat Metheny – guitar, 42-string Pikasso guitar (track 2), acoustic guitar (track 4), guitar synthesizer (tracks 5 and 9)
Brad Mehldau – piano
Larry Grenadier – double bass
Jeff Ballard – drums

Note

Tracks 2, 4, 6, and 11 are Metheny and Mehldau duets.

Technical personnel

Pat Metheny – producer
Robert Hurwitz – executive Producer
Pete Karam – recording
Rob Eaton – mixing
Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, NYC, USA
Doyle Partners – design
Arild Danielsen – cover photograph

References

"Quartet by Pat Metheny + Brad Mehldau". Nonesuch Records. Nonesuch Records. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
Jurek, Thom. Quartet - Pat Metheny at AllMusic. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 995. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

External links

Pat Metheny.com: Metheny Mehldau Quartet Album information at Pat Metheny official website
Brad Mehldau.com: Metheny Mehldau Quartet Album information at Brad Mehldau official website
All About Jazz Review of Metheny Mehldau Quartet

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

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)

v t e Brad Mehldau
Studio albums	Consenting Adults (1994) Introducing Brad Mehldau (1995) The Art of the Trio Volume One (1996) Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz (1996) Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three (1998) Elegiac Cycle (1999) Places (2000) Largo (2002) Anything Goes (2002) House on Hill (2005) Day Is Done (2005) Metheny Mehldau Metheny/Mehldau Quartet (2005) Love Sublime (2006) Highway Rider (2009) Love Songs (2010) Modern Music (2010) Ode (2011) Where Do You Start (2011) Variations on a Melancholy Theme (2013) Mehliana: Taming the Dragon (2014) Blues and Ballads (2014) Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2016) After Bach (2017) Seymour Reads the Constitution! (2018) Finding Gabriel (2018) Suite: April 2020 (2020) Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (2020) Jacob’s Ladder (2022) The Folly of Desire (2022)
Live albums	New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 1 (1993) New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 2 (1993) When I Fall in Love (1993) Live at the Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two (1997) Art of the Trio 4: Back at the Vanguard (1999) Progression: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 5 (2000) Live in Tokyo (2003) Brad Mehldau Trio Live (2006) Live in Marciac (2006) Long Ago and Far Away (2007) Nearness (2011) 10 Years Solo Live (2014)
Books	Formation (2023)
Related articles	Discography

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