Jazz Articles about Wayne Shorter

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Live Review

Wayne Shorter Quartet at National Concert Hall, Dublin

by Ian Patterson
June 20, 2014

Wayne Shorter Quartet National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland June 14, 2014 The rapturous applause that greeted the Wayne Shorter Quartet as it took to the stage of Dublin's National Concert Hall was a heart-felt show of appreciation for Shorter's immense contribution to jazz over the past six decades. From his role as artistic director in both drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and trumpeter Miles Davis's second great quintet to his fourteen-year tenure alongside keyboardist Joe ...

Year in Review

Mark F. Turner's Best of 2013

by Mark F. Turner
January 16, 2014

Jazz keeps growing and evolving through all of its permutations and 2013 was another stellar year of music. It's always difficult to pick the best from a host of outstanding releases yet the task is a labor of admiration. Another cool thing about “Year End" lists is discovering something new. Here are just a few of my favorites and hopefully something yet to be discovered for those unfamiliar with these fine releases. Wayne Shorter Quartet

Interview

Wayne Shorter: Portrait Of A Visionary

by R.J. DeLuke
December 27, 2013

To speak with Wayne Shorter can feel like an exercise in the mystical. At times, it's stream of consciousness, ideas flowing that can reach the profound; but the direction can switch suddenly. There are frequent references to films (Shorter is a lifelong movie buff), as well as books whose subject matter run from science to philosophy. The discourse is never delivered in holier-than-thou fashion, nor is it deliberate obfuscation. Its always congenial and conversational. And witty. Shorter looks ...

Live Review

Wayne Shorter Quartet at Philharmonie Essen

by Phillip Woolever
November 22, 2013

Wayne Shorter Quartet Philharmonie Essen Essen, Germany November 8, 2013 Whatever waning stage of his career Wayne Shorter may occupy these days, a concert by his quartet remains one of jazz's premier performance attractions. It would be a stretch to say the senior statesman Shorter is playing better than ever or even equal to earlier eras, but at 80 years old, he is still consistently capable of brilliance. Maybe that's what makes his ...

Extended Analysis

Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

by Nenad Georgievski
November 3, 2013

"Miles' audience isn't where it used to be but neither is his music" was used to market the new releases of Miles Davis' indefatigably changing music in the late 60's that caused seismic shifts in the world of jazz and completely had redirected it into new and fresh territories. In a career that stretched five decades Miles Davis did more than just become a star--this enigmatic 20th century icon fused an astonishing array of different musical styles, refused to be ...

Live Review

2013 Thelonious Monk Institute Competition

by Franz A. Matzner
October 9, 2013

The saxophone is the most iconic of jazz instruments. Its image is all that is needed to invoke the music's essence, its history intimately entangled with the cultural arc of American music and urban culture. Its masters are the most recognized outside jazz circles and its sound most closely identified with the art form. To many, jazz is defined by the sax and the sax defined by jazz. For that reason, it was fitting that this year's Thelonious ...

Album Review

Wayne Shorter: Without a Net

Read "Without a Net" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 11, 2013

Più di un ritorno: un cerchio che si chiude, un destino che si compie. 43 anni dopo Odyssey of Iska e Moto Grosso Feio, registrati in un solo pomeriggio il 26 agosto del 1970, Wayne Shorter e la Blue Note sono di nuovo compagni di strada. Merito di Don Was, neo-timoniere dell'etichetta jazz per antonomasia. Sua la decisione di riportare a casa il quasi ottantenne sassofonista. Un'intuizione felice premiata con il miglior disco a nome Shorter dai tempi di... Già, ...