An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess is an album by fellow Dream Theater

Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...

 bandmates John Petrucci

John Petrucci

John Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Along with his former bandmate Mike Portnoy, he has produced all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory...

 (guitar

Guitar

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s) and Jordan Rudess

Jordan Rudess

Jordan Rudess is an American keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.-Biography:...

 (keyboards). This album is unusual in being performed live (except for the last track) by just these two musicians, and only guitar and keyboards. The live recording was made on June 10th 2000 at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center

Helen Hayes Theatre

Helen Hayes Theatre with 597 seats is the smallest Broadway theatre and is located at 240 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan....

  in Nyack, New York

Nyack, New York

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. "The Rena Song" was dedicated to John Petrucci's wife Rena Sands Petrucci.

Track listing

All songs by John Petrucci

John Petrucci

John Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Along with his former bandmate Mike Portnoy, he has produced all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory...

 & Jordan Rudess

Jordan Rudess

Jordan Rudess is an American keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.-Biography:...

, except where noted.

1. "Furia Taurina" – 10:10
2. "Truth" – 9:48
3. "Fife and Drum" – 9:30
4. "State of Grace" – 5:45
5. "Hang 11" – 11:38
6. "From Within" (Jordan Rudess) – 5:21
7. "The Rena Song" (John Petrucci) – 7:03
8. "In the Moment" – 6:27
9. "Black Ice" – 10:54
10. "Bite of the Mosquito (studio version)" – 1:53

Personnel

• John Petrucci: guitar
• Jordan Rudess: keyboard