| Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cuong Vu Trio and Pat Metheny |
| Cover: | Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny.jpg |
| Recorded: | February 4–6, 2015 |
| Studio: | Avatar Studios, New York City |
| Genre: | Jazz, avant-garde jazz |
| Label: | Nonesuch |
| Producer: | Cuong Vu |
| Chronology: | Pat Metheny |
| Prev Title: | The Unity Sessions |
| Prev Year: | 2016 |
| Next Title: | From This Place |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny is a studio album by Vietnamese jazz trumpeter Cuong Vu and American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, with additional musicians Stomu Takeishi on fretless five-string bass guitar, and Ted Poor on drums.[1] The album was released on May 6, 2016 via Nonesuch label.
Vu had previously been a member of the Pat Metheny Group for two albums and tours before this recording.
The AllMusic review by Matt Collar states "Together, the quartet plays a set of original songs that straddle the line between ambient tone poems, exploratory modal jazz, and punk-inflected noise jams". They also selected it as one of their Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016.[2] In The Jazz Mann Ian Mann wrote "This is music that sounds fresh, spontaneous and adventurous but still with enough structure and compositional awareness to appeal to most discerning listeners".[3] Writing for The Guardian John Fordham observed "Metheny enters completely into the exploratory spirit, and gives Vu’s intriguing music a fresh dimension and creative support".[4]