Letter from Home (album)

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Released 1989 (1989) Length 61:39 Artist Pat Metheny Group Label Geffen Records		Recorded 1989 Letter from Home(1989) The Road to You(1993) Release date 29 June 1989 Producer Pat Metheny

Letter from Home(1989) Question and Answer(1989) Genres Jazz, Jazz fusion, Latin jazz, Crossover jazz Similar Pat Metheny Group albums, Jazz albums

Pat metheny letter from home

Letter from Home is an album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1989 by Geffen Records. In 1990, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance.

The album marked the return of Pedro Aznar, who became a member of the Group on the album First Circle. It also featured a reemphasis on increased instrumental diversity and was a huge commercial success, comfortably making the Top 200 album chart at Billboard magazine. "Slip Away" was, as Metheny put it, "extraordinarily successful, one of the most successful individual tunes that we've ever made." He said that it contains an ideal melodic durability.

Better days ahead pat metheny group

Track listing

All music composed by Pat Metheny, except where noted.

Personnel

Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, 12-string guitar, soprano guitar, tiple, guitar synthesizer, Synclavier

Lyle Mays – piano, organ, accordion, trumpet, Synclavier

Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass

Paul Wertico – drums, caja, additional percussion

Pedro Aznar – voice, acoustic guitar, marimba, vibes, tenor sax, charango, melodica, pan pipe, percussion

Armando Marçal – percussion

The album was recorded at The Power Station, New York City, in Spring 1989.

Awards

Grammy Awards

Songs

1Have You Heard6:25
2Every Summer Night7:13
3Better Days Ahead3:03

References

Letter from Home (album) Wikipedia

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