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Still Life (Talking)
Still Life (Talking) is an album by the Pat Metheny Group that was released in 1987 on Geffen Records. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance and was certified gold by the RIAA on July 2, 1992.
This was the Group's first album to be released by Geffen. It combines Brazilian jazz-influenced harmonies and rhythms with jazz, folk, and pop.
History.
Group co-founders Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays joined the Geffen Records label
the label had a very stringent policy: "You recorded for two days, you mixed for a day, that was your record. For better or worse...whether you liked it or not, that was your record." The Group recorded "Still Life (Talking)" in approximately two weeks, creating a greater opportunity, Metheny continued, to refine the sound for the album.
Since the recording of their album "As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls", one of Metheny and Mays' goals