Metheny’s most impressive achievements in the fusion idiom have been a series of genre-crossing recordings— Still Life (Talking) from 1987, Letter from Home from 1989, and Secret Story from 1992—that incorporate advanced jazz compositional techniques with pop-rock and Brazilian elements. These are highly original projects that sound deceptively simple, yet include some of the most sophisticated jazz writing of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
