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The Best Of Wayne Shorter. Album • 1988. 9 songs • 1 hour, 3 minutes. 1. Speak No Evil. 2.8M plays. 8:26. 2. Infant Eyes. 1.5M plays. 6:55. 3. Tom Thumb (feat. Curtis Fuller, James Spaulding,...
- Roots and Herbs
- Speak No Evil
- Miles Smiles
- Schizophrenia
- Native Dancer
- Heavy Weather
- Atlantis
- 1+1
- Footprints Live!
- Without A Net
[Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers] Art Blakey’s famous group has several generations of eminent alumni, many of whom went on to become the most celebrated musicians, composers and bandleaders of all time. Wayne Shorter’s tenure lasted from 1959 for five years, during which he played on many classic albums and supplied numerous compositions. On Ro...
In 1964, Shorter was snapped up by Miles Davisto complete his iconic Second Quintet. However, he was also busy recording albums under his own name. Speak No Evil is the third of eleven dates for Blue Note in this period and the choice of personnel highlights the crossroad he was at: former Messengers peer Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and new colleagu...
[Miles Davis Quintet] On this second of the Quintet’s sessions, Wayne Shorter provides three compositions, one of which would go on to become a well-known jazz standard: ‘Footprints’ had already been recorded earlier in the year and appears on Adam’s Apple, but it is this rendition which brought it wider recognition. A comparison of the two version...
The looseness developing in Wayne Shorter’s playing is contained here by detailed arrangements and even some ’60s Blue Note soul. This is a case of split personality: hard-bop and post-bop approaches are balanced by free jazz and the avant-garde. In common with most of his recordings is an uncanny skill in picking sidemen. Ron Carter and Herbie Han...
Wayne Shorter co-founded Weather Report in 1970 and was therefore no stranger to fusing styles when he recorded this album with Rio de Janeiro-born singer and guitarist Milton Nascimento. Jazz and Brazilian musicalready had a long history of blending, and the efforts of artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz had made the public familiar with...
Weather Report Regarded as one of the defining bands of the jazz fusion movement, Weather Report sought to move away from traditional forms and emphasise group improvisation. Underpinning the band’s signature sound was the compositions of its members. Shorter pens two of the numbers here, and these pieces illustrate a maturing vocabulary which feat...
His first record as leader since Native Dancer, Atlantis resumes a shift towards through-composed pieces with little improvisation, a direction increasingly followed since the inception of Weather Reportand characterising much of his solo work through the next decade. Each piece gradually reveals itself as an exploration of texture, density, colour...
High Life (1995) was the culmination of Wayne Shorter’s investigation of foregrounding grand orchestrations and using only short, closed forms for improvisation. 1+1 signals a return to spontaneity and freedom. This duo album with old friend and collaborator Herbie Hancock eschews technology in favour of an acoustic sound and is a rare example of t...
At the ripe age of 67, Wayne Shorter recorded his first live album as leader with his first regular band. The personnel – Danilo Perez, John Patitucciand Brian Blade – although much younger than Shorter, were already well-established and the record was eagerly anticipated. Compiled from three dates on tour in Europe, the playing here is dexterous a...
Another from the Quartet, Without a Net proves that Shorter’s creative powers are yet to wane. Six of his compositions are counted here, including the 23-minute ‘Pegasus’ involving orchestral woodwinds and brass. Some of the pieces date back to the ’60s, and are given a new lease of life by what has become Wayne Shorter’s primary vehicle for his ar...
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 CD release of "The Best Of Wayne Shorter" on Discogs.
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- US
- 24
- CD, Compilation
Wayne Shorter feat. Curtis Fuller, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Joe Chambers
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 CD release of "The Best Of Wayne Shorter - The Blue Note Years" on Discogs.
- 6
- CD, Compilation
- Japan
- Blue Note-CJ28-5039
Feb 6, 2013 · Joe Chambers and Ron Carter totally rock out, there are great solos by Wayne, Herbie and the perennially underrated James Spaulding, and we get to hear some nice section work by Wayne’s former Art Blakey band-mate Curtis Fuller.
Aug 25, 2023 · It's a beautiful jazz waltz (one of his favorite time signatures) with the beautifully harmonized horns of Wayne on tenor sax, James Spaulding on alto and trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. The bonus here is not only the rhythm section of Wayne's Miles Davis bandmates, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, but also his work with pianist McCoy Tyner.
