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1989 studio album by Pat Metheny Group
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Letter from Home is the sixth studio album by the Pat Metheny Group . It was released in 1989 by Geffen Records . In 1990, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance . It was certified gold by the RIAA on July 23, 1998.[ 2]
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.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Pat Metheny except where noted
Side one: Title Writer(s) 1. "Have You Heard" 6:25 2. "Every Summer Night" 7:13 3. "Better Days Ahead" 3:02 4. "Spring Ain't Here" 6:55 5. "45/8" 0:56 6. "5-5-7" Metheny, Mays 7:54
Side two: Title Writer(s) 1. "Beat 70" Metheny, Mays 4:53 2. "Dream of the Return" Spanish lyrics by Pedro Aznar 5:25 3. "Are We There Yet" Mays 7:55 4. "Vidala" Pedro Aznar 3:04 5. "Slip Away" 5:24 6. "Letter from Home" 2:33
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 , percussion
Pedro Aznar – voice, guitar, marimba, vibraphone, sax, charango , melodica , pan pipe , percussion
Armando Marçal – percussion
Charts
Album – Billboard
Year
Chart
Position
1989
Billboard Jazz Albums
1
1989
Billboard Black Albums
43
1989
Billboard Pop Albums
50
Awards
Grammy Awards
References
Group albums
As leader
As group member/side man
Solo albums Collaborations
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981, Mays )
Song X (1986, Coleman )
Electric Counterpoint (1989)
I Can See Your House from Here (1994, Scofield )
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997, Haden )
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999, Hall )
Upojenie (2002, Jopek )
Metheny Mehldau (2006, Mehldau )
Metheny Mehldau Quartet (2007, Mehldau)
Tap:John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 (2013, Zorn )
Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016, Vu )