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.
4-588: 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. The track Slip Away
8-526: A jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass , with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius . He is a multi-instrumentalist and the author of several books of poetry published in Argentina. He plays an important part in Argentine rock , where in the mid-1970s, he had various appearances with groups like Madre Atómica, Alas and Pastoral. He became one of four members of Serú Girán in 1978, one of
12-493: The most musically influential bands that dominated Argentina's rock circuit for the next four years. In 1982 he accepted an invitation from Pat Metheny to join The Pat Metheny Group as a vocalist, with whom he recorded three Grammy Award -winning albums. Later he began his solo career, while also working scoring music to film soundtracks. His 1991 album Tango 4 with Charly García as a duo went platinum and
16-431: Was heavily sampled by house music producer Nick Holder on his 2001 track Summer Daze . All tracks are written by Pat Metheny except where noted Grammy Awards Pedro Aznar Pedro Aznar (born 23 July 1959) is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has musical experience in jazz , Argentine folk and rock music and has a successful career as a solo artist. He is well known for giving rock songs
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