Pat Metheny Group – Offramp (VG+/VG+) – LP, DE 1982

Offramp is an LP by Pat Metheny Group from 1982 released on the ECM Records label.

About this album

Offramp is the Pat Metheny Group at its most elegant and adventurous, sharpening jazz fusion into something lyrical, melodic and unmistakably modern. Released in 1982, the album helped define the group’s early identity, balancing Metheny’s singing guitar tone with Lyle Mays’ keyboards and inventive electronic colours. Its centrepiece, ‘Are You Going With Me?’, became one of the group’s best-known pieces, while the broader album bridges contemporary jazz, ambient texture and rhythmic momentum with unusual ease. Widely regarded as a high point in the band’s catalogue, Offramp won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance and remains a key record in 1980s jazz crossover.