“Last Train Home” by Pat Metheny Group

"Last Train Home" rolls out of Still Life (Talking), the fifth Pat Metheny Group album, which Geffen released in 1987. Metheny composed it and arranged it with Lyle Mays, and the pair steered the record too, Metheny producing with Mays as co-producer. Metheny plays guitar, Mays covers piano and keyboards, Steve Rodby is on bass, Paul Wertico on drums and Armando Marçal on percussion, while Marçal, David Blamires and Mark Ledford lend their voices.

It's a travelling tune if ever there was one, all forward motion and open horizon. The album took the Grammy for Best Jazz Fusion Performance and went gold in 1992, and in 2015 the song turned up closing out episodes of "Battle in Egypt", the back half of the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.

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