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The Way Up

Studio album by

Pat Metheny Group

Released

January 25, 2005

Recorded

2003–2004

Studio

Right Track, New York City

Genre

Jazz, jazz fusion

Length

68:07

Label

Nonesuch

Producer

Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny chronology

One Quiet Night
(2003)

The Way Up
(2005)

Metheny/Mehldau
(2006)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
All About Jazz	(favourable)^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The Way Up is the eleventh and final studio album by the Pat Metheny Group. It was released in 2005 and won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2006. It is the last album in the prolific three-decade collaboration of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.

Background

The album consists of one 68-minute-long piece, split into four tracks. The piece is through composed, featuring complex shifts of dynamics and meter, and precise transitions between solo improvisation sections.

Swiss multi-instrumentalist Gregoire Maret is showcased on the harmonica and joined the Group for the album's world tour. The tour included a performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and an official concert recording of the Seoul, South Korea appearance was released on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Opening"	5:17
2.	"Part One"	26:27
3.	"Part Two"	20:29
4.	"Part Three"	15:54

Personnel

Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, slide guitar, toy guitar, producer
Lyle Mays – piano, keyboards, toy xylophone, producer
Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass, cello, violin, producer
Cuong Vu – trumpet, vocals, toy whistle
Grégoire Maret – harmonica
Antonio Sánchez – drums, toy xylophone

Additional musicians

Richard Bona – percussion, vocals, toy guitar
Dave Samuels – percussion

Technical personnel

Pat Metheny – producer
Steve Rodby, Lyle Mays – co-producers
Rob Eaton – recording, mixing
Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, NYC, USA
Doyle Partners – design, photography

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Category
2006	Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album

References

^ Jurek, Thom. "The Way Up - Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
^ Kelman, John (20 January 2005). "Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 995. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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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