Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)

Occupation

• Charlie Haden - Bass
• Pat Metheny - guitar and all other instruments

Beyond the Missouri Sky ( Short Stories ) is a jazz album by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny. The album was released by Verve Records on 25 February 1997.

Recording

The album was the first collaboration between Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny as a duo, although they had been friends since the 1970s. They had been on the albums 80/81 (1980 ), Rejoicing (1983 ), Song X (1986) and also on tour in combo formations worked together. Metheny and Haden had ( Haden writes in the liner notes ) for years also talked about doing a duo album. Yet have they left the studio date to 1996 period.

Both grew up in small towns in Missouri and in the liner notes of the album, whose cover shows a landscape at sunset in the Midwest, Metheny speculated that this could be the reason for the affinity of the two musicians have each other. The album contains jazz standards such as The Moon is a Harsh Mistress mainly original compositions by Haden and Metheny.

The first track of the album, Waltz for Ruth, was composed by Haden especially for this album and is Haden's wife Ruth Cameron dedicated. Also the song First Song, which was established in 1992 was covered by Stan Getz on his last album is dedicated to Haden's wife. The Precious Jewel has become known by the Delmore Brothers, who exercised a great influence on Charlie Haden, as he stressed. Tears of Rain is an original composition by Metheny for this project, which was recorded with his new acoustic sitar.

Reception

Daniel Gioffre rated album at Allmusic with three out of five stars, noting:

"Overall, Beyond the Missouri Sky is a fine record When the material is happening, but a bit of a chore When it is not. If Haden and Metheny had gone with the more Americana theme Throughout, instead of interspersing did rootsy feel with post- bop, it would have been a much stronger record. "

"Overall, Beyond the Missouri Sky is a fine recording, if the material is announced, but it's a bit tedious if not. If Haden and Metheny had pursued throughout Americana instead to intersperse this nostalgic post-bop feel, it would have been a much stronger shot. "

Ross Porter wrote:

" Haden and Metheny create gorgeous lyrical sound on Beyond the Missouri Sky. Their depth and profundity Has playing, and They make it sound effortless. "

" Haden and Metheny create a beautiful lyrical tone on Beyond the Missouri Sky. Your game has depth and profundity, and they create that it sounds effortless. "

The album won the 1998 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. The Penguin Guide to Jazz recommended the album as part of the core of a collection of jazz albums.

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