Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)

Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) is a jazz album by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, two musicians who come from Missouri. The album was released by Verve Records on February 25, 1997. At the 40th Grammy Awards, they were awarded (Haden's first and Metheny's tenth) the Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance.^[1]

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected the album as part of its suggested Core Collection.^[2] The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars calling it "a fine record when the material is happening, but a bit of a chore when it is not".^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[2]
Allmusic	^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Waltz for Ruth"	Charlie Haden	4:28
2.	"Our Spanish Love Song"	Haden	5:40
3.	"Message to a Friend"	Pat Metheny	6:13
4.	"Two for the Road"	Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse	5:16
5.	"First Song" (for Ruth)	Haden	6:37
6.	"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"	Jimmy Webb	4:05
7.	"The Precious Jewel"	Roy Acuff	3:47
8.	"He's Gone Away"	Traditional	4:18
9.	"The Moon Song"	Johnny Mandel	6:56
10.	"Tears of Rain"	Metheny	5:30
11.	"Cinema Paradiso" (Love Theme)	Andrea Morricone	3:35
12.	"Cinema Paradiso" (Main Theme)	Ennio Morricone	4:24
13.	"Spiritual"	Josh Haden	8:22

Remarks on the compositions

The Precious Jewel had been made well known by the Delmore Brothers, a major influence on Charlie Haden as he pointed out. Waltz for Ruth was composed especially for this album and is dedicated to Haden's wife. Tears of Rain is also an original composition for this project by Metheny, recorded with his new acoustic sitar. According to Haden, The Moon Song by Johnny Mandel had never been recorded before.^[4] However the song is also known as Solitary Moon and has been covered by both Shirley Horn on her album "You're My Thrill" and Barbra Streisand on her album "What Matters Most". Spiritual, by Charlie Haden's son Josh Haden was originally released on Spain's debut album, The Blue Moods of Spain, and was covered by Johnny Cash in 1996. Jimmy Webb took the title of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress from a Robert A. Heinlein novel of the same name.

Personnel

Charlie Haden - bass
Pat Metheny - acoustic guitars and all other instruments

Awards

1997 - 40th Annual GRAMMY Awards^[1]

Title	Category
Beyond the Missouri Sky	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance

References

1 2 "Past Winners Search". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Charlie Haden". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 624. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
1 2 Gioffre, D. Allmusic Review accessed April 3, 2012
↑ Charlie Haden; Pat Metheny (1997). "Booklet: beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories)".

Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny Group

Albums	Pat Metheny Group American Garage Offramp Travels First Circle The Falcon and the Snowman Still Life (Talking) Letter from Home The Road to You We Live Here Quartet Imaginary Day Speaking of Now The Way Up

Singles	"Are You Going With Me?" "This Is Not America" "Across the Sky"

Albums as leader

Solo albums

Collaborations

Compilations

Works
Works II
Selected Recordings:rarum IX

Soundtracks

Passaggio per il paradiso
A Map of the World

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