Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
| Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) | |
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| Studio album by Pat Metheny , Charlie Haden | |
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Publication |
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| Label (s) | Verve Records |
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Format (s) |
CD |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
69:01 |
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Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny |
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Studio (s) |
Right Track Studio, New York City |
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) is a jazz album by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny . The album was released on Verve Records on February 25, 1997.
admission
The album was Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny's first collaboration as a duo, although they had been friends since the 1970s. They had already worked together on albums 80/81 (1980), Rejoicing (1983), Song X (1986) and also on tours in combo formations. Metheny and Haden had (as Haden writes in the liner notes ) also talked about making a duo album for years. But they took their time with the studio appointment until 1996.
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 speculates that this could be the reason for the affinity between the two musicians. In addition to jazz standards such as The Moon is a Harsh Mistress , the album mainly contains original compositions by Haden and Metheny.
The first track on the album, Waltz for Ruth , was composed by Haden especially for this album and is dedicated to Haden's wife Ruth Cameron . The song First Song , which Stan Getz covered on his last album in 1992, is also dedicated to Haden's wife. The Precious Jewel became famous through the Delmore Brothers , who exerted a great influence on Charlie Haden, as he emphasized. Tears of Rain is Metheny's own composition for this project, which was recorded with his new acoustic sitar .
reception
Daniel Gioffre rated the album with three stars out of five on Allmusic and noted:
“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 that rootsy feel with post-bop, it would have been a much stronger record. ”
“Overall, Beyond the Missouri Sky is a fine take when the material is hot, but it's a bit of a chore when it isn't. If Haden and Metheny had followed Amerikana throughout instead of adding that nostalgic post-bop feeling, it would have been a much stronger reception. "
Ross Porter wrote:
“Haden and Metheny create gorgeous lyrical sound on Beyond the Missouri Sky . Their playing has depth and profundity, and they make it sound effortless. "
“Haden and Metheny create a beautiful lyrical sound on Beyond the Missouri Sky . Their playing has depth and depth, and they play it so that it sounds effortless. "
The album won a Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance in 1998 . The Penguin Guide to Jazz recommended the album as part of the core of a collection of jazz albums.
Track list
- Waltz for Ruth - Charlie Haden 4:28
- Our Spanish Love Song - Haden 5:40
- Message to a Friend - Pat Metheny 6:13
- Two for the Road - Henry Mancini , Leslie Bricusse 5:16
- First Song (for Ruth) - Haden 6:37
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Jimmy Webb 4:05
- The Precious Jewel - Roy Acuff 3:47
- He's Gone Away - Traditional 4:18
- The Moon Song - Johnny Mandel 6:56
- Tears of Rain - Metheny 5:30
- Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme) - Andrea Morricone 3:35
- Cinema Paradiso (Main Theme) - Ennio Morricone 4:24
- Spiritual - Josh Haden 8:22 am
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) by Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 13, 2013 .
- ^ Ross Porter: The Essential Jazz Recordings: 101 CDs, 248 pages, McClelland & Stewart Verlag (2006), ISBN 0-7710-7032-2
- ^ New York Times - The 1998 Grammy Award Winners. Retrieved July 14, 2013 .
- ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton [1992]: Charlie Haden . In: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (= The Penguin Guide to Jazz ), 9th edition, Penguin, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0 , p. 624.