PAT METHENY's "One Quiet Night", originally released in 2003, is the guitarist's most simply executed and highly personal set. The night in question was November 24, 2001; the location was the home studio in Metheny's apartment. Metheny began to play around with a new baritone guitar he had just acquired, exploring what he has described as an unusual "low Nashville tuning." As he told Downbeat at the time, "I wasn't thinking about anything other than the sound of one note leading me to the next. It was all about discovery. It's about those moments when you're hearing something yourself for the first time. That I had my wits about me to push record and document this experiment was a serendipitous occurrence."
 
Metheny fans agreed, and it became one of his fastest selling – and most critically hailed – CDs. The Boston Globe called it "a spare, almost reverent session of man and guitar." Downbeat noted, "An earphone listen reveals the spiritual-like ruminations as well as a relaxed and chiming sense of unadorned, heartfelt beauty." Billboard declared, "The individual pieces are as compelling as anything in the guitarist's catalog."
 
That one evening led to a year of rumination: Metheny took the recorded results of his solitary, wee-small-hours session with him as he toured with the PAT METHENY Group, and he began to see the shape of an album in his musings. In late 2002, his touring over, Metheny decided to cut a few more tracks in the same intuitive, homemade fashion – no overdubs, no other instruments – to complete the disc. He covered a pair of his favorite tunes, Keith Jarrett's "My Song" and Gerry and the Pacemakers' British Invasion hit "Ferry Across the Mersey," as well as Jesse Harris's "Don't Know Why," which Norah Jones had just made famous. This reissued edition also features a bonus track, "In All We See," previously unreleased in North America on CD. Metheny's performance remains as heartfelt as it is impromptu; a private, contemplative moment has been transformed into a timeless work.


Tracks
 
"One Quiet Night"
Song For The Boys
Don't Know Why
Another Chance To Be
Time Goes On
My Song
Peace Memory
Ferry Cross The mersey
Over On 4th Street
I Will Find The Way
North To South, East To West
Last Train Home
In All We See*

*bonus track