What's It All About (Pat Metheny album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = What's It All About
| type = studio
| artist = Pat Metheny
| cover = What's.It.All.About.Pat.Metheny.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|2011|6|14}}
| recorded = February 2011
| venue =
| studio = Right Track, New York City
| genre = Jazz, folk jazz, Americana
| length = {{Duration|m=55|s=50}}
| label = Nonesuch
| producer = Pat Metheny
| chronology = Pat Metheny
| prev_title = Orchestrion
| prev_year = 2010
| next_title = Unity Band
| next_year = 2012
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{allMusic |class=album |id=r2206660 |tab=review |label=Pat Metheny: What's It All About > Review |first=Thom |last=Jurek |accessdate=September 21, 2011}}
| rev2 = All About Jazz
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40459 |title=Pat Metheny: What's It All About |first=Nenad |last=Georgievski |work=allaboutjazz.com |date=9 October 2011 |access-date=18 October 2013}}
}}
What's It All About is a solo album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, released by Nonesuch Records on June 14, 2011. It is Metheny's first album which does not include his own material. On February 12, 2012, What's It All About received a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = The Sound of Silence
| writer1 = Paul Simon
| length1 = 6:33
| title2 = Cherish
| writer2 = Terry Kirkman
| length2 = 5:28
| title3 = Alfie
| writer3 = Burt Bacharach, Hal David
| length3 = 7:46
| title4 = Pipeline
| writer4 = Bob Spickard, Brian Carman
| length4 = 3:28
| title5 = Garota de Ipanema
| writer5 = Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes
| length5 = 5:12
| title6 = Rainy Days and Mondays
| writer6 = Roger Nichols, Paul Williams
| length6 = 7:12
| title7 = That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
| writer7 = Carly Simon, Jacob Brackman
| length7 = 6:03
| title8 = Slow Hot Wind
| writer8 = Henry Mancini, Norman Gimbel
| length8 = 4:28
| title9 = Betcha by Golly, Wow
| writer9 = Thom Bell, Linda Creed
| length9 = 5:18
| title10 = And I Love Her
| writer10 = John Lennon, Paul McCartney
| length10 = 4:22
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Bonus track on LP and digital download
| title11 = 'Round Midnight
| writer11 = Thelonious Monk
| length11 = 6:37
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Bonus track on LP
| title12 = This Nearly Was Mine
| writer12 = Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
| length12 = 4:29
}}
Personnel
- Pat Metheny – baritone guitar, 42-string guitar (track 1), 6-string guitar (track 4), nylon-string guitar (track 10)
= Technical personnel =
- Pat Metheny – producer
- Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
- Pat Metheny, Pete Karam, David Oakes – recording
- Pete Karam – mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, NYC, USA
- Barbara de Wilde – design
- Sandrine Lee – photography
Charts
| class="wikitable"
! Chart (2011) ! Peak |
| US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard){{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/whats-it-all-about-r2206660/charts-awards |title= What's It All About - Pat Metheny |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=September 21, 2011}}
| style="text-align:center" | 1 |
| US Billboard 200
| style="text-align:center" | 125 |
Awards
| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Year !align="left"|Category |
| align="left"|2012
|align="left"|Grammy Award for Best New Age Album |