80/81

80/81
80/81
Studio album by Pat Metheny
Released	1980
Recorded	May 26–29, 1980
Studio	Talent Studios, Oslo, Norway
Genre	Jazz, folk jazz
Length	80:25
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Pat Metheny chronology

80/81 is a double album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, featuring tenor saxophonists Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker, acoustic bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Jack DeJohnette, which was released in 1980.

Metheny toured in the U.S. in fall 1980 with a quartet including Redman, Haden and drummer Paul Motian. In the summer of 1981, he toured Europe with the full 80/81 lineup featured on the album.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]

In a review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell wrote that "Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package", and called the album "a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely continued pursuing their electric commercial successes."[1] An overview at The Music Aficionado refers to the album as "a double LP album for the ages" resulting from "one of the most productive and inspiring recording sessions in modern jazz", and notes: "Metheny didn't just ask four great musicians to come over for a session. He had a clear vision for how they will sound together, and wrote new music with their individual style and personality in mind. Interestingly, he also assembled combinations of musicians who have not played or recorded with each other before."[4]

In an article at Between Sound and Space, Tyran Grillo called the album a "still-fresh sonic concoction", and noted that "With 80/81, Pat Metheny took one step closer to his dream of working with The Prophet of Freedom (Ornette Coleman) (a dream he finally achieved with 1985's Song X)". He concluded: "Like much of what Metheny produces, 80/81 is wide open in two ways. First in its far-reaching vision, and second it its willingness to embrace the listener. Like a dolly zoom, he enacts an illusion of simultaneous recession and approach, lit like a fuse that leads not to an explosion, but to more fuse."[5]

JazzTimes included the album in an article titled "10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1980s: Critics' Picks", in which Philip Booth stated: "Enlisting four of the musicians he most admired... the 26-year-old guitarist successfully translated the sound in his head to beautifully open, airy, sometimes urgent recordings."[6]

Track listing

All music is composed by Pat Metheny except where noted

Disc one:
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Two Folk Songs: 1st"		13:17
2.	"Two Folk Songs: 2nd"	Charlie Haden	7:31
3.	"80/81"		7:28
4.	"The Bat"		5:58
5.	"Turnaround"	Ornette Coleman	7:05

Disc two:
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Open"	Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, Dewey Redman, Haden, Michael Brecker, Final Theme by Metheny	14:25
2.	"Pretty Scattered"		6:56
3.	"Every Day (I Thank You)"		13:16
4.	"Goin' Ahead"		3:56

Single CD edition
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Two Folk Songs: One / Two"	20:52
2.	"Every Day (I Thank You)"	13:21
3.	"Goin' Ahead"	3:51
4.	"80/81"	7:34
5.	"The Bat"	6:05
6.	"Turnaround"	7:04

Personnel

Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone (on tracks Disc 1: 1,4; Disc 2: 1–3)
Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone (on tracks Disc 1: 3, Disc 2: 1,2)
Charlie Haden – double bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums

References

Ginell, Richard S.. Pat Metheny: 80/81 > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 994. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
"80/81, by Pat Metheny". The Music Aficionado. September 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
Grillo, Tyran (October 14, 2011). "Pat Metheny: 80-81 (ECM 1180/81)". Between Sound and Space. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
Booth, Philip (November 23, 2020). "10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1980s: Critics' Picks". JazzTimes. Retrieved March 19, 2021.

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[allmusic-1] Ginell, Richard S.. Pat Metheny: 80/81 > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 6, 2011.

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 994. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[4] "80/81, by Pat Metheny". The Music Aficionado. September 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2021.

[5] Grillo, Tyran (October 14, 2011). "Pat Metheny: 80-81 (ECM 1180/81)". Between Sound and Space. Retrieved March 19, 2021.

[6] Booth, Philip (November 23, 2020). "10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1980s: Critics' Picks". JazzTimes. Retrieved March 19, 2021.