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This live album – released on vinyl for the first time - is made up of 3 European dates in 2001, and introduced Shorter’s “Footprint Quartet” – pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade All are in top form, especially on challenging reimaginations of the title track and “Masquelero,” both...
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Between 1964-1967 the legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter created a treasured and deeply influential body of work within the acoustic jazz tradition with classic albums such as Night Dreamer, JuJu, Speak No Evil, and Adam’s Apple that presented Shorter’s brilliant and distinctive original compositions performed by...
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Wayne Shorter had already set a high bar over the course of his first several Blue Note albums, which included all-time jazz classics including Night Dreamer, JuJu, and Speak No Evil, but 1966’s Adam’s Apple featuring Herbie Hancock on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums immediately joined the ranks of the...
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On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note Shorter’s goal for the album was to use “a wider range of colors and textures” while continuing his explorations of “life and the universe and God” Joining...
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Out of stockSpeak No Evil was one of several albums Shorter recorded for Blue Note in 1964 At the same time, he was also active in Miles Davis's band, and so it is unlikely that Speak No Evil received any special attention at the time of its release But the passage of time has led to the album being generally regarded as Shorter's finest, and...
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Out of stockIn 1964, saxophonist Wayne Shorter had just left Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, where he had been probably the most significant composer in the band’s history and a superb musical director He was about to join the second great Miles Davis Quintet ‘Juju’ is indicative of the journey Shorter’s music was making at this...