| Letter from Home | ||||
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| Released | June 29, 1989 | |||
| Recorded | Spring 1989 | |||
| Studio | Power Station, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion, Latin jazz, Crossover jazz, Smooth jazz | |||
| Length | 61:39 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Producer | Pat Metheny | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
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]
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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.
