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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, and 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 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. The song was heavily sampled by house music producer Nick Holder on his 2001 track Summer Daze.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Pat Metheny except where noted.
Side one:| Title | Writer(s) |
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| 1. | "Have You Heard" | | 6:25 |
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| 2. | "Every Summer Night" | | 7:13 |
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| 3. | "Better Days Ahead" | | 3:02 |
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| 4. | "Spring Ain't Here" | | 6:55 |
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| 5. | "45/8" | Metheny, Mays | 0:56 |
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| 6. | "5-5-7" | Metheny, Mays | 7:54 |
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Side two:| Title | Writer(s) |
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| 1. | "Beat 70" | Metheny, Mays | 4:53 |
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| 2. | "Dream of the Return" | Spanish lyrics by Pedro Aznar | 5:25 |
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| 3. | "Are We There Yet" | Mays | 7:55 |
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| 4. | "Vidala" | Pedro Aznar | 3:04 |
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| 5. | "Slip Away" | | 5:24 |
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| 6. | "Letter from Home" | | 2:33 |
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Personnel
- Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, 12-string guitar, soprano guitar, tiple, Synclavier
- Lyle Mays – piano, organ, accordion, trumpet, Synclavier
- Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass
- Paul Wertico – drums, caja, percussion
- Pedro Aznar – vocals, guitar, marimba, vibraphone, tenor saxophone, charango, melodica, pan pipe, percussion
- Armando Marçal – percussion
Charts
Awards
Grammy Awards
References
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| Group albums | | As leader | | Pat Metheny Group | |
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| Others |
- Bright Size Life (1976)
- Watercolors (1977)
- 80/81 (1980)
- Rejoicing (1984)
- Question and Answer (1990)
- Secret Story (1992)
- Flower Hour (1992)
- Trio 99 → 00 (2000)
- Trio → Live (2000)
- Day Trip (2008)
- Tokyo Day Trip (2008)
- Unity Band (2012)
- Kin (←→) (2014)
- The Unity Sessions (2016)
- From This Place (2020)
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| As group member/side man |
- Jaco (1974)
- Ring (1974)
- Dreams So Real - Music of Carla Bley (1975)
- Passengers (1976)
- Shadows and Light (1980)
- Michael Brecker (1987)
- Parallel Realities (1990)
- Reunion (1990)
- Till We Have Faces (1992)
- Wish (1993)
- Blues for Pat: Live in San Francisco (1995)
- Tales from the Hudson (1996)
- Like Minds (1998)
- The Sound of Summer Running (1998)
- Time Is of the Essence (1999)
- Nearness of You: The Ballad Book (2001)
- Upojenie (2002)
- Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years, 1968–1978 (2003)
- Pilgrimage (2007)
- Quartet Live (2009)
- Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015)
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| Solo albums |
- New Chautauqua (1979)
- Zero Tolerance for Silence (1994)
- A Map of the World (1999)
- One Quiet Night (2003)
- Orchestrion (2010)
- What's It All About (2011)
- The Orchestrion Project (2013)
- Road to the Sun (2021)
- Dream Box (2023)
- MoonDial (2024)
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| 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)
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