Home / Music / American Garage was released as ECM 1155Music linernotes album music pat-metheny-groupAmerican Garage was released as ECM 1155American Garage, the Pat Metheny Group’s third album, was released as ECM 1155. It marked a shift toward a more rock-influenced sound while keeping the ECM aesthetic intact. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesPat Metheny Group's Offramp won the 1983 Grammy for Best Jazz Fusion PerformanceThe Pat Metheny Group's debut album was ECM 1114Offramp was the first Pat Metheny Group album with vocalsThe Pat Metheny Group recorded American Garage in June and released it in NovemberOfframp was recorded in October 1981 and released on ECM in May 1982ExploreKadhja Bonet's The Visitor blends jazz, funk, soul, and classical into neo-soulTheon Cross brings calypso, soca, and dancehall into jazzFrank Sinatra records shaped Ian Curtis's vocals on CloserMichael Jackson's Dangerous won a Grammy for its engineeringRickie Lee Jones won Best New Artist in 1980, beating the CarsPrevious Arnold Maxon produced I Put a Spell on You by getting everyone drunk in the studio.Next American Garage was cut at a farm in Massachusetts