Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Have You Heard | 6:30 |
| 2 | Every Summer Night | 7:11 |
| 3 | Better Days Ahead | 3:06 |
| 4 | Spring Ain't Here | 6:55 |
| 5 | 45/8 | 0:55 |
| 6 | 5-5-7 | 7:55 |
| 7 | Beat 70 | 4:47 |
| 8 | Dream of the Return | 5:25 |
| 9 | Are We There Yet | 7:55 |
| 10 | Vidala | 3:04 |
| 11 | Slip Away | 5:24 |
| 12 | Letter from Home | 2:35 |
About this Album
1989 Grammy Award Winner
Metheny’s continued exploration of Brazilian sounds, following Still Life, yielded another Best Jazz Fusion Grammy in 1989. At the time, the Chicago Sun-Times noted, “Few of this year's recordings are as impressive as Metheny's lush Letter … as lucid as it is lyrical.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Pat Metheny, electric & acoustic guitars, 12-string guitar, soprano guitars, tiple, guitar synths, synclavier
Lyle Mays, piano, organ, keyboards, accordion, trumpet, synclavier
Steve Rodby, acoustic & electric basses
Paul Wertico, drums, caja, additional percussion
Pedro Aznar, voice, acoustic guitar, marimba, vibes, tenor sax, charango, melodica, panpipe, additional percussion
Armando Marçal, percussion
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Pat Metheny
Co-produced by Lyle Mays and Steve Rodby
Associate Producers: David Oakes and Paul Wertico
Recorded Spring 1989, at Power Station, New York, NY
Recorded and mixed by Rob Eaton
Tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 mixed by Alexander Haas
Assistant Engineer: Bruce Calder
Additional Engineering: Roy Hendrickson
Technical Assistant: Niki Gatos
Project Coordinator: David Sholemson
Originally mastered by Robert Ludwig
Remastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York, NY
All tracks by Pat Metheny, except tracks 5-7 by Pat Metheny / Lyle Mays, track 9 by Lyle Mays, and track 10 by Pedro Azmar. Lyrics for track 8 by Pedro Azmar.
Art and Design” SHEd/Diamond Art Studio
Adapted by 3+Co., New York, NY
