Question and Answer (album)

This article is about the jazz album. For the Sleeping album, see Questions & Answers (album).

Question and Answer
Studio album by Pat Metheny with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes
Released	1990
Recorded	December 21, 1989
Studio	Power Station, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	62:36
Label	Geffen
Producer	Gil Goldstein, Pat Metheny, David Oakes
Pat Metheny chronology
Letter from Home (1989) Question and Answer (1990) Secret Story (1992)
Dave Holland chronology
Extensions (1990) Question and Answer (1990) Phase Space (1991)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Question and Answer is an album by guitarist Pat Metheny with acoustic bassist Dave Holland and drummer Roy Haynes. ^[1] Metheny won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for "Change of Heart"

Track listing

All music is composed by Pat Metheny except where noted

Side one:

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Solar"	Miles Davis	8:27
2.	"Question and Answer"		7:07
3.	"H&H"		6:51
4.	"Never Too Far Away"		5:52
5.	"Law Years"	Ornette Coleman	6:51

Side two:

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Change of Heart"		6:14
2.	"All the Things You Are"	Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern	8:26
3.	"Old Folks"	Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison	6:38
4.	"Three Flights Up"		6:10

Personnel

• Pat Metheny – guitar, Synclavier on "Three Flights Up"
• Dave Holland – double bass
• Roy Haynes – drums

Technical personnel

• Pat Metheny – producer
• Gil Goldstein, David Oakes – associate producers
• David Sholemson – project coordinator
• Rob Eaton – recording, mixing
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk, NYC, USA
• Shed (8) – artwork, design
• Crhistofher Kehoe – photography

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1990	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	3
1990	Billboard 200	154

Awards

Grammy Awards

Years	Winner	Title	Category
1991	Pat Metheny	"Change of Heart"	Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

References

1. McDonald, Steven (2011). "Question and Answer – Pat Metheny | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 994. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.