Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

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Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

Studio album by

Cuong Vu Trio
and Pat Metheny

Released

May 6, 2016

Recorded

February 4–6, 2015

Studio

Avatar Studios, New York City

Genre

Jazz, avant-garde jazz

Length

53:19

Pat Metheny chronology

The Unity Sessions
(2016)

Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
(2016)

From This Place
(2020)

Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny is a studio album by Vietnamese jazz trumpeter Cuong Vu and American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, with additional musicians Stomu Takeishi on fretless five-string bass guitar, and Ted Poor on drums.^[1] The album was released on May 6, 2016 via Nonesuch label.

Vu had previously been a member of the Pat Metheny Group for two albums and tours before this recording.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Jazz Mann	^[3]
The Guardian	^[4]

The AllMusic review by Matt Collar states "Together, the quartet plays a set of original songs that straddle the line between ambient tone poems, exploratory modal jazz, and punk-inflected noise jams".^[2] They also selected it as one of their Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016.^[5] In The Jazz Mann Ian Mann wrote "This is music that sounds fresh, spontaneous and adventurous but still with enough structure and compositional awareness to appeal to most discerning listeners".^[3] Writing for The Guardian John Fordham observed "Metheny enters completely into the exploratory spirit, and gives Vu’s intriguing music a fresh dimension and creative support".^[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cuong Vu except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Acid Kiss"		9:05
2.	"Not Crazy (Just Giddy Upping) (For Vina)"		6:05
3.	"Seeds of Doubt"		7:00
4.	"Tiny Little Pieces"		10:29
5.	"Telescope"	Pat Metheny	7:05
6.	"Let's Get Back (For Liduvina)"		7:23
7.	"Tune Blues"	Andrew D'Angelo	6:16
Total length:			53:19

Personnel

Cuong Vu – trumpet
Stomu Takeishi – bass
Ted Poor – drums
Pat Metheny – guitar

Technical personnel

Cuong Vu, Pat Metheny – producers, liner notes
Pete Karam – recording, mixing, mastering
Tim Marchiafava – Engineer
Latifa Metheny, Peter Purgar, Petra Cvelbar – photography

References

^ "Nonesuch Releases Two New Albums from Pat Metheny on May 6: "The Unity Sessions," "Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny"". Nonesuch Records. 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
^ ^a ^b Collar, Matt. Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny – Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
^ ^a ^b Mann, Ian (2016-06-10). "Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny — Cuong Vu Trio". The Jazz Mann. London. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
^ ^a ^b Fordham, John (2016-05-26). "Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny review – jazz with an exploratory spirit". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
^ Allmusic Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016

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)

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