3rd Podcast: Wayne Shorter and The Classic Blue Note Recordings
This here is a podcast on the Jazz Great Wayne Shorter. It is also an introduction so the listeners can get an idea of his work. That is why I am featuring the Double CD Album, The Classic Blue Note Recordings. Let's take a look at his Biography:
(Born Aug. 25, 1933, Newark, N.J., U.S.) African-American musician and composer, a major jazz saxophonist, among the most influential hard-bop and modal musicians and a pioneer of jazz-rock fusion music.
Shorter studied at New York University (B.M.E., 1956) and served in the U.S. Army (1956–58). He spent brief periods in the Horace Silver quintet (1956) and the Maynard Ferguson big band (1958) before his first major association, with Art Blakey's hard-bop Jazz Messengers (1959–63). He joined Miles Davis's modal jazz quintet as a tenor saxophonist in 1964 and stayed with him during Davis' early fusion music experiments, leaving in 1970 as a soprano saxophonist.
Throughout the 1970s and much of the '80s, Shorter and keyboard player Joe Zawinul together led Weather Report, a fusion band that explored an uncommon variety of sound colours. He returned frequently to the tenor saxophone and in later years led his own fusion music groups.......Continue Reading
About the Double CD Album:
Recorded between 1960 & 1989. Includes liner notes by Bob Blumenthal.Renowned for his stints with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and, later, Miles Davis, saxophonist Wayne Shorter was also one of the finest jazz composers of the 1960s. This two-CD compilation, consisting entirely of his own compositions, presents a remarkable selection of Shorter's discography (sans the many albums he made with Weather Report), with the first disc focusing on Shorter's solo releases and the second on his work with Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, and others.As the title implies, this collection includes the original versions of well-known tunes "Yes or No," "Footprints," "Adam's Apple," and other Blue Note classics. Although most the songs were recorded in the '60s, the set does include Shorter's '89 electronic reworking of "Nefertiti," as performed by the Manhattan Project. (This rendition boasts the incomparable Michel Petrucciani, who contributes a burning piano solo.) The collection also features astounding hard-bop collaborations with the Jazz Messengers, including smoking versions of "Lester Left Town" and "The Chess Players.".......Learn more