Way Up

The Way Up represents, in the words of guitarist Pat Metheny himself, "our most ambitious undertaking ever as a group"-a single, brilliant 68-minute piece composed by Metheny and his collaborator of 28 years, Lyle Mays. Metheny has likened the creation of the Way Up to making a film, and in some respects, the album feels like a vividly rendered journey, it's moods shifting like scenes glimpsed from a fast-moving vehicle.