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Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net

Read "Without a Net" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
February 7, 2013

It is now well over a decade since legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter formed this quartet with Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade to tour and record Footprints Live! (Verve, 2001), an album which signaled the end of a period in the doldrums for Shorter and a cracking return to form. The energy and verve of the quartet's three younger players brought out the best of Shorter, a reminder why he deserved that “legendary" tag. A 2003 studio-recorded ...

Album Review

Wayne Shorter: Without a Net

Read "Without a Net" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
February 7, 2013

The cover art of Without a Net alone might raise a few eyebrows, but it's the music that proves saxophonist Wayne Shorter is still one of jazz's most ardent provocateurs. In his return to Blue Note after 43 years, Shorter--who turns 80 in 2013-- demonstrates his ongoing vitality and ingenuity as an extraordinary composer, improviser, and leader of one of today's strongest quartets. For over ten years, the seemingly telepathic and subliminal messages that Shorter, drummer Brian Blade, bassist John ...

Extended Analysis

Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net

by John Kelman
January 29, 2013

Since convening a new quartet for the 2001 tour that resulted in Footprints Live! (Verve, 2002), soon-to-be-octogenarian saxophonist Wayne Shorter has found himself in the company of a group that's not just turned out to be, hands-down, his most exciting and exploratory acoustic ensemble in a career well into its sixth decade, but now, a dozen years later, his longest-running one as well. Weather Report, the fusion supergroup that Shorter co-founded with keyboardist Joe Zawinul, did, indeed, last longer, from ...

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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. ...

Album Review

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 - ...

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Album Review

McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner: Extensions

Read "McCoy Tyner: Extensions" reviewed by Chris May

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 ...

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Live Review

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 ...