Jazz Articles about Wayne Shorter

Merzbow Brings The Noise

by Mark Corroto
October 18, 2012

Merzbow MerzbientSoleilmoon Recordings 2012 Are you of the mind, that in the big scheme of things, the really big scheme of things, there are no accidents? That everything happens for a purpose? Call it synchronicity or a Shirley MacLaine cake recipe, and I'm sure Kevin Bacon would agree, that fate or destiny plays a role in everyone's life, even a music critic. What am I talking about? I'm talking about kismet. ...

Wayne Shorter: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 21, 2012

Ci sono operazioni discografiche che, al di là dello stretto valore musicale, raccontano assai bene una fetta della nostra storia, più o meno recente. Un buon esempio viene dalla Complete Columbia Albums Collection di Wayne Shorter, cofanetto contenente sei CD che spaziano dall'esordio dei Weather Report al disco Joy Rider del 1988 che chiude il trittico solista post-Report. Si tratta infatti di un periodo che, visto retrospettivamente, sembrerebbe appartenere - specialmente per quanto riguarda i lavori a proprio nome - ...

McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner: Extensions

by Chris May
December 13, 2011

Languishing off-catalogue for many years, McCoy Tyner's Extensions may be the pianist's most unjustly neglected album. Strange days, for not only is the music ineffably vibrant, but Extensions is the only recording ever to feature Tyner alongside pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, who replaced him in saxophonist John Coltrane's group in 1966. The album has one foot in the echoes of John Coltrane's “classic quartet," of which Tyner was a member from 1960-65, and the other in the astral jazz ...

Wayne Shorter Quartet: Toronto, February 12, 2011

by Alain Londes
February 22, 2011

Wayne Shorter QuartetMassey HallToronto, CanadaFebruary 12, 2011 During a recent NPR interview with Michelle Mercer, the author of Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter (Tarcher, 2004) talked about how the saxophonist is still capable of keeping people interested through his continuous playing and writing. His quartet has not recorded together in years, and yet, what defines these musicians is less about releasing albums than intersecting musicality in performance. At the center of all ...

Live In Montreux 1996

by Jeff Stockton
March 6, 2010

Wayne ShorterLive at Montreux 1996 Eagle Eye Media2009

Wayne Shorter may look 20 years younger than 76, but he is quite simply one of the last giants, every bit as influential and artistically significant as Sonny Rollins, perhaps second only to John Coltrane when one considers his compositions and just how many of them have become jazz standards. Much of Shorter's legendary artistic output dates from the ...

Wayne Shorter Quartet with NEC Philharmonia, Boston

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
November 18, 2009

Wayne Shorter Quartet with NEC PhilharmoniaJordan Hall, New England ConservatoryBoston, MassachusettsOctober 24, 2009 Crushing waves, pound against jagged stone. Water breaks into spotted foam, falling, rising, then pounding again. The sounds splash and spray, captivating a stunned and silent audience. The Wayne Shorter Quartet took the stage for the final performance of the New England Conservatory's 40th anniversary celebration of jazz studies. For its second set, the Quartet was accompanied by the ...

Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

by John Kelman
February 12, 2009

Wayne ShorterLive at Montreux 1996 Eagle Eye Media2009

Enigmatic and cerebral, saxophonist Wayne Shorter's still evolving legacy remains one of the richest in the world of living jazz icons. Still, despite some fine writing, his return to recording as a leader after a 10-year absence, High Life (Verve, 1995) was underappreciated and remains an undervalued footnote amongst his classic Blue Note albums and more recent discs, including the empathic Beyond ...