Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)

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

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.^[2] 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.

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected the album as part of its suggested Core Collection.^[3] 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".^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
Allmusic	^[4]

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

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.
↑ Charlie Haden; Pat Metheny (1997). "Booklet: beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories)".
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

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

Charlie Haden
Studio albums	As Long as There's Music (1978) Closeness (1976) The Golden Number (1977) Gitane (1978) Magico (1979) Folk Songs (1979) Etudes (1987) Silence (1987) Dialogues (1990) First Song (1992) Steal Away (1995) Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997) None But the Lonely Heart (1997) Nocturne (2001) American Dreams (2002) Land of the Sun (2004) Heartplay (2006) Come Sunday (2012)
Live albums	Time Remembers One Time Once (1981) The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (1994) The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian (1994) Night and the City (1996) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Paul Motian (1997) In Montreal (2001) The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson (2004) Magico: Carta de Amor (2012)
Liberation Music Orchestra albums	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1982) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005) Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings) (2016)
Old and New Dreams albums	Old and New Dreams (1976) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1980) A Tribute to Blackwell (1987)
Quartet West albums	Quartet West (1987) In Angel City (1988) Haunted Heart (1991) Always Say Goodbye (1993) Now Is the Hour (1996) The Art of the Song (1999) The Private Collection (2007)
Related	Discography Josh Haden Spain [band] The Blue Moods of Spain Petra Haden Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out Rachel Haden Tanya Haden Let's Go Sailing The Haden Triplets

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