{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = New Chautauqua | type = studio | artist = Pat Metheny | cover = New Chautauqua.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1979|3|1}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/new-chautauqua-pat-metheny/ | title=New Chautauqua }}</ref> | recorded = August 1978 | venue = | studio = Talent, Oslo, Norway | genre = Jazz fusion<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brisbane |first1=Arthur S. |title=Metheny's 'Chautauqua' Travels New Avenues of Pop |work=Kansas City Times |date=28 Apr 1979 |page=9C}}</ref> | length = {{Duration|m=38|s=28}} | label = ECM | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Pat Metheny | prev_title = Pat Metheny Group | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = American Garage | next_year = 1979 }} '''''New Chautauqua''''' is a solo album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, recorded in August 1978 and released on ECM in April 1979.
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev5 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev5Score = (mixed)<ref>{{cite magazine |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/patmetheny/albums/album/210885/review/5946214/new_chautauqua |title=Pat Metheny: New Chautauqua : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |first=Mikal |last=Gilmore |magazine=Rolling Stone |year=2011 |accessdate=18 July 2011 |url-status= dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031034647/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/patmetheny/albums/album/210885/review/5946214/new_chautauqua |archivedate=31 October 2007}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/new-chautauqua-mw0000192195 |title=New Chautauqua - Pat Metheny | AllMusic |first=Thom |last=Jurek |work=allmusic.com |accessdate=21 September 2017}}</ref> | rev6 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev6Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen |url-access=registration | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/139 139] }}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev4score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=993}}</ref> | rev2 = ''DownBeat'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>DownBeat review, September 6, 1979, p. 36</ref> }} The ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' wrote: "For all its delights, and they are considerable, Metheny's first solo venture is an exercise in arrangement and effect. As pure music, it drifts. The listener's attention does likewise."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bustard |first1=C.A. |title=Revolutions Per Minute |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=2 May 1979 |page=B6}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = Pat Metheny | all_music = | headline = Side one | title1 = New Chautauqua | length1 = 5:19 | title2 = Country Poem | length2 = 2:34 | title3 = Long-Ago Child/Fallen Star | length3 = 10:19 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title4 = Hermitage | length4 = 5:39 | title5 = Sueño con Mexico | length5 = 5:59 | title6 = Daybreak | length6 = 8:38 }}
==Personnel== * Pat Metheny – electric 6- and 12-string guitars, acoustic guitar, 15-string harp guitar, electric bass
'''Technical staff''' * Manfred Eicher – producer * Jan Erik Kongshaug – recording enginner * Dieter Rehm – cover photography, design * JoJi Sawa – back cover photography
==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !align="left"|Year !align="left"|Chart !align="center"|Position |- |align="left"|1979 |align="left"|''Billboard'' Jazz Albums |align="center"| 3 |- |align="left"|1979 |align="left"|''Billboard'' Pop Albums<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Pat Metheny Billboard 200 Chart History|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pat-metheny/chart-history/tlp/ |access-date=December 4, 2023|magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref> |align="center"|44 |}
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