Wayne Shorter - The Essential Wayne Shorter '2014
Artist | Wayne Shorter Related artists |
Album name | The Essential Wayne Shorter |
Country | |
Date | 2014 |
Genre | Jazz |
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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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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