Pat Metheny Letter From Home CD

Letter From Home Music

List Price	$15.98 (You save $2.63)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz Instrument CDs, Guitar, Jazz
Label	Nonesuch
Orig Year	1989
All Time Sales Rank	17604
CD Universe Part number	7016789
Catalog number	79940
Discs	1
Release Date	Feb 07, 2006
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Pat Metheny
Engineer	Rob Eaton; Bruce Calder
Additional Info	Remastered

Pat Metheny Letter From Home Songs

	1.	Have You Heard
	2.	Every Summer Night
	3.	Better Days Ahead
	4.	Spring Ain't Here
	5.	45/8
	6.	5-5-7
	7.	Beat 70
	8.	Dream of the Return - (Spanish)
	9.	Are We There Yet
	10.	Vidala
	11.	Slip Away
	12.	Letter From Home

Letter From Home Music Review

Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars) 5 stars

5 stars Another peak for Pat.
Mostly the same sound as " Still Life " and again nother 5 star cd from Mr Metheny. Influences from the music from Brazil just suit Pat perfectly. The music is soft and it just flows with great guitar solos and nice passages from Lyle Mays on keyboards. Really great jazz music with samba touch. Also one of my alltime favourites.
Submitted by claesrunbalk (gothenburgh,sweden)
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5 stars love at first sound!
bought it by impulse. really a purchase I dont regret! Melodic jazz with latin inspiration! how good could it get? as good as Pat Metheny!
Submitted by stian.okland (Bergen, Norway)
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5 stars One of the best PMG albums.
Along with Still Life Talking, this CD is the best of the impressive Pat Metheny Group output. If you like Pat's Brazilian-inspired music, this is the one to get!
Submitted by André (Orléans, Ontario, Canada)
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