Endangered Species: The Music of Wayne Shorter October 25 and 26 at the Iridium Jazz Club

ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE MUSIC OF WAYNE SHORTER

with the Wayne Shorter Tribute Big Band Under the Direction of David Weiss

With Special Guests

Wallace Roney- Trumpet (October 25)
James Spaulding- Alto Sax (October 26)
Grachan Moncur III- Trombone (October 26)
Joe Chambers- Drums (October 26)
and featuring

Jeremy Pelt and Kenny Rampton- Trumpet
Miguel Zenon- Alto Sax
Jimmy Greene- Tenor and Soprano Sax
Bill McHenry (October 25) and Mark Turner (October 26)- Tenor Sax
Norbert Stachel- Baritone Sax and Bass Clarinet
Joe Fiedler and Stafford Hunter- Trombone
Orrin Evans (October 25) and George Colligan (October 26)- Piano
Dwayne Burno- Bass
Terreon Gully- Drums

Thursday and Friday October 25 and 26
at
Iridium Jazz Club 1650 Broadway (at 51st Street)
(212)582-2121
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/
Sets at 8 and 10 pm

Wayne Shorter is one of the most important composers of the post-bop era and perhaps the greatest jazz composer alive. His all-encompassing work starts with the hard bop classic compositions he wrote for Art Blakey, on to his groundbreaking Blue Note records which featured many tunes that have become timeless jazz standards, his innovative, conceptual records like The All Seeing Eye, the music he wrote for the classic Miles Davis quintet, whose sound helped define an era in jazz, his fusion hits with Weather Report, his brilliant, almost-through-composed work such as Atlantis, and his later orchestral reworkings of some of his classic tunes. It is very unlikely there has been another composer who has covered more musical territory more brilliantly than Wayne Shorter.

The concept of the Endangered Species band is to pay tribute to jazz' greatest living composer and approach his work as he would, as an ever changing, always evolving body of work. The group will perform music from all eras of Mr. Shorter's great career from the Blakey era ("Mr. Jin"), through music from “The All Seeing Eye" and classics from the Miles Davis era ("Fall"), up to his latest compositions from “Alegria" and “High Life."

Award-winning composer and arranger David Weiss has reimagined Mr.Shorter's work for a 11-piece mini-big-band that features many of the finest young players and rising stars on the jazz scene today including Jeremy Pelt, Keyon Harrold, Ingrid Jensen, Jimmy Greene, Myron Walden, Bill McHenry, Craig Handy, Josh Roseman, Joe Fiedler, Xavier Davis, Dwayne Burno, and EJ Strickland.