Still Life is an album

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 by Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group

The Pat Metheny Group is a jazz group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays , and bassist and producer Steve Rodby...

, released in 1987. This is the first group's album released by Geffen Records

Geffen Records

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. It features fusion and crossover jazz, combining Brazilian jazz-influenced harmonies with jazz, folk, and pop elements. With previous studio album First Circle

First Circle (album)

First Circle is a Grammy Award winning album by Pat Metheny Group released in 1984. On the album Pat Metheny is joined by Lyle Mays on piano and keyboards, Steve Rodby on bass, drummer Paul Wertico and vocalist and percussionist Pedro Aznar...

and following Letter from Home

Letter from Home

Letter from Home is an album by Pat Metheny Group, released in 1989 by Geffen Records. It picks up where Still Life leaves off, continuing to infuse Brazilian elements into light jazz.-Track listing:...

, These albums were sometimes considered as a "Brazilian Trilogy".

The album was recorded at Power Station, New York, New York from March to April 1987.

Track listing

Personnel

• Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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  /synth guitar, acoustic guitar
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  s, electric guitar
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• Lyle Mays
  Lyle Mays
  Lyle Mays is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group...
  
   - piano
  Piano
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  , keyboards
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• Steve Rodby
  Steve Rodby
  Steve Rodby is an American bassist.He joined the Pat Metheny Group in 1981. Prior to joining Metheny, he was a member of the Simon-Bard Group and the Fred Simon ensemble. Rodby continues to collaborate with Simon .Rodby studied bass at Northwestern University, a student of Warren Benfield of the...
  
   - acoustic bass
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  , electric bass
  Bass guitar
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• Paul Wertico
  Paul Wertico
  Paul Wertico is an American drummer. He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to spend more time with his family and to pursue other musical interests. Metheny heard the Simon Bard Group with Wertico and bassist Steve Rodby, and invited...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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• Armando Marçal - percussion
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  , background vocals
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• Mark Ledford
  Mark Ledford
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   - vocals
  Singing
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• David Blamires
  David Blamires
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   - vocals

Awards

Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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Year	Winner	Category
1988	Pat Metheny Group	Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality jazz fusion performances...

Trivia

• The song "Last Train Home" was used in a Christmas commercial by the Florida-based supermarket chain Publix
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  , featuring relatives traveling to Florida by train for Christmas. The commercial aired every holiday season from 1987 to 1996. "Last Train Home" was also featured during The Weather Channel
  The Weather Channel
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  's "Local on the 8s
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  " playlist in April 2000.