Beyond the Sound Barrier is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by saxophonist Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...

 released on Verve Records

Verve Records

Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...

 in 2005. It was recorded in Europe, America and Asia and features the 'Footprints Quartet' of Shorter, Danilo Perez

Danilo Pérez

Danilo Pérez is a Panamanian pianist and composer.-Early life:Danilo Pérez was born in Panama in 1965. He is considered one of the finest contemporary pianists and jazz composers of our era....

, John Patitucci

John Patitucci

John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...

 and Brian Blade

Brian Blade

Brian Blade in Shreveport, Louisiana is an American jazz drummer, composer, session musician, and singer-songwriter.-Early years:...

.

Two pieces, "Joy Ryder" and "Over Shadow Hill Way", are markedly different versions of tracks off of Shorter's synth heavy electronic album from 1988, Joy Ryder

Joy Ryder

Joy Ryder is an album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter released on Columbia in 1988.- Track listing :# "Joy Ryder" # "Cathay" # "Over Shadow Hill Way" # "Anthem"# "Causeways" # "Daredevil"...

.

Track listing

1. "Smilin' Through" (Penn
   Arthur Penn
   Arthur Hiller Penn was an American film director and producer with a career as a theater director as well. Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work throughout the 1960s and 1970s.-Early years:...
   
   ) - 11:52
2. "As Far as the Eye Can See" - 6:27
3. "On Wings of Song" (Mendelssohn
   Felix Mendelssohn
   Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
   
   ) - 4:35
4. "Tinker Bell" - 1:59
5. "Joy Ryder" - 11:19
6. "Over Shadow Hill Way" - 12:33
7. "Adventures Aboard the Golden Mean" - 6:03
8. "Beyond the Sound Barrier" - 6:24

All compositions by Wayne Shorter except as indicated

Personnel

• Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
  
   - saxophones
• Danilo Perez
  Danilo Pérez
  Danilo Pérez is a Panamanian pianist and composer.-Early life:Danilo Pérez was born in Panama in 1965. He is considered one of the finest contemporary pianists and jazz composers of our era....
  
  : piano
• John Patitucci
  John Patitucci
  John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...
  
  : bass
• Brian Blade
  Brian Blade
  Brian Blade in Shreveport, Louisiana is an American jazz drummer, composer, session musician, and singer-songwriter.-Early years:...
  
  : drums