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Wayne Shorter - The Essential Wayne Shorter '2014

The Essential Wayne Shorter
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Album name The Essential Wayne Shorter
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Date 2014
GenreJazz
Play time 2:31:26
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 972 / 350 MB
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. E.S.P.
02. Footprints
03. Orbits
04. Masqualero
05. Nefertiti
06. Sanctuary
07. Tears
08. Mysterious Traveler
09. Blackthorn Rose
10. Lusitanos
11. Elegant People
12. Dolores (Live)
13. Diana
14. Harlequin
15. Palladium
16. Pinocchio
17. Plaza Real
18. Ponta de Areia
19. Beauty and the Beast
20. Miracle of the Fishes
21. Endangered Species
22. Atlantis
23. The Three Marias
24. Mahogany Bird
25. Joy Ryder


 Read MoreShorter started playing the clarinet at 16 but switched to tenor
sax before entering New York University in 1952. After graduating with a BME in
1956, he played with Horace Silver for a short time until he was drafted into
the Army for two years. Once out of the service, he joined Maynard Fergusons
band, meeting Fergusons pianist Joe Zawinul in the process. The following year
(1959), Shorter joined Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers, where he remained until
1963, eventually becoming the bands music director. During the Blakey period,
Shorter also made his debut on record as a leader, cutting several albums for
Chicagos Vee-Jay label. After a few prior attempts to hire him away from Blakey,
Miles Davis finally convinced Shorter to join his quintet in September 1964,
thus completing the lineup of a group whose biggest impact would leapfrog a
generation into the 80s.

Staying with Miles until 1970, Shorter became the bands most prolific composer
at times, contributing tunes like E.S.P., Pinocchio, Nefertiti, Sanctuary,
Footprints, Fall, and the signature description of Miles, Prince of Darkness.
While playing through Miles transition from loose post-bop acoustic jazz into
electronic jazz-rock, Shorter also took up the soprano in late 1968, an
instrument that turned out to be more suited to riding above the new electronic
timbres than the tenor. As a prolific solo artist for Blue Note during this
period, Shorter expanded his palette from hard bop almost into the atonal
avant-garde, with fascinating excursions into jazz-rock territory toward the
turn of the decade.

Native DancerIn November 1970, Shorter teamed up with old cohort Joe Zawinul and
Miroslav Vitous to form Weather Report, where after a fierce start, Shorters
playing grew mellower, pithier, more consciously melodic, and gradually more
subservient to Zawinuls concepts. By now he was playing mostly on soprano,
though the tenor would re-emerge toward the end of WRs run. Shorters solo
ambitions were mostly on hold during the WR days, resulting in but one atypical
solo album, Native Dancer, an attractive side trip into Brazilian-American
tropicalismo in tandem with Milton Nascimento. Shorter also revisited the past
in the late 70s by touring with Freddie Hubbard and ex-Miles sidemen Herbie
Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams as V.S.O.P.

AtlantisShorter finally left Weather Report in 1985. Still committed to
electronics and fusion, his recorded compositions from the period feature
welcoming rhythms and harmonically complex arrangements. After three Columbia
albums during 1986-1988 -- Atlantis, Phantom Navigator and Joy Ryder -- and a
tour with Santana (represented by the 2005 album Montreux 1988), he lapsed into
silence, emerging again in 1992 with Wallace Roney and the V.S.O.P. rhythm
section in the A Tribute to Miles band. In 1994, now on Verve, Shorter released
High Life, an engaging electric collaboration with keyboardist Rachel Z.

Bridges to BabylonIn concert, he has fielded an erratic series of bands, which
could be incoherent one year (1995) and lean and fit the next (1996). He guested
on the Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon in 1997, and on Herbie Hancocks
Gershwins World in 1998. In 2001, he was back with Hancock for Future 2 Future
and on Marcus Millers M². Footprints Live! was released in 2002 under his own
name with a new band that included pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John
Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade, followed by Alegria in 2003 and Beyond the
Sound Barrier in 2005. Given his long track record, Shorters every record and
appearance are still eagerly awaited by fans in the hope that he will thrill
them again. Blue Note released Blue Notes Great Sessions: Wayne Shorter in 2006.

Without a NetThough absent from recording, Shorter continued to tour regularly
with the same quartet after 2005. They re-emerged to record again in February of
2013 with a live outing from their 2011 tour. Without a Net, his first recording
for Blue Note in 43 years, was released in February of 2013, as a precursor to
his 80th birthday. Just after that release, the Wayne Shorter Quartet performed
four of the leaders compositions with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie
Hall in New York City. Shorter immediately brought the quartet and orchestra
into the studio to record those same four pieces: Pegasus, Prometheus Unbound,
Lotus, and The Three Marias, as a unified suite. The title of this
four-composition orchestral suite is also Shorter’s title character for
the graphic novel: Emanon, or no name spelled backward. Each of the four
movements has a corresponding theme in a graphic novel penned by Shorter and
Monica Sly, illustrated by Randy DeBurke. It draws inspiration from the concept
of a multiverse (where numerous universes co-exist simultaneously) and features
a character named Emanon, an action-hero proxy of Shorter, a comic book
aficionado since he was a boy. The story alludes to dystopian oppression and was
clearly informed by the saxophonists Buddhist studies. All told, the music --
performed by the quartet with and without the chamber orchestra -- was recorded
live in London as well as in the studio; compiled, it created a triple album
accompanied by the 84-page graphic novel. Emanon was issued in September of
2018, just after Shorters 85th birthday. ~ Richard S. Ginell

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