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Wayne Shorter Quartet at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
May 2, 2017

Wayne Shorter Quartet SFJAZZSpring Season San Francisco, California April 27, 2017 To jazz fans Wayne Shorter needs no introduction. That evening, the first of a three-night stand at SFJAZZ, Director Randall Kline referred to him as “possibly the greatest composer in jazz" which is not an overstatement. For Shorter, who was lured from Art Blakey's group by Miles Davis, earned his reputation by burnishing gems such as “E.S.P.," “Footprints," “Sanctuary," “Nefertiti and “Prince ...

Album Review

Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple

Read "Adam's Apple" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
April 26, 2017

In all the perpetual hubbub surrounding Blue Note records from the 1950s--the aggressive opinions and stratospheric prices--it's sometime easy to forget that the label released really high quality music all the way through the 1960s, and some of the recordings from the later years of the decade are every bit as worthy of attention as the legendary 1500 series dates. Case in point: Wayne Shorter's Adam's Apple, a quartet date recorded in 1966 when Shorter was a mainstay ...

My Blue Note Obsession

Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil – 1964

by Marc Davis
December 21, 2016

It's hard to imagine a jazz musician who has had more success with more bands than Wayne Shorter. His tenor sax was an essential part of three landmark combos: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1959-1964), Miles Davis' classic quintet (1964-70) and Weather Report (1971-86)--27 consecutive years of uninterrupted magnificence. In other words, if Shorter had never recorded a single album as a bandleader, he still would be among the greats on jazz's Mount Olympus. But ...

Album Review

Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Smiles

Read "Miles Smiles" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
July 2, 2016

Without a hint of a doubt, the trumpeter Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet which he led in the mid-'60s rekindled his fire for music resulting in exuberant and adventurous music. Davis was reenergized by his young band which vitality and enthusiasm has made a big difference. Not only did it stretch Miles' boundaries, as the band was taking chances and experimenting, but it also helped him get through a difficult period in his personal life (the deaths of his parents, ...

Reassessing

Black Market

by Jeff Winbush
June 14, 2016

As Weather Report returned to the studio to cut their next album the band was yet again in flux. Gone from 1975's Tale Spinnin' line up were percussionist Alyrio Lima and drummer Ndugu Leon Chancler. Zawinul explained the latest comings-and-goings in a 1976 interview, “We're always happy with the group, because if we're not happy, we change it. There are a lot of musicians out there in the world. All the people who have played with us are ...

Album Review

Wayne Shorter: The Blue Note Albums

Read "The Blue Note Albums" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
November 30, 2015

Cinque ore di musica sublime per immergersi nell'universo shorteriano. Per i palati sopraffini, un'occasione imperdibile per riascoltare alcune delle gemme del catalogo Blue Note. Cosa distingue queste dalle coeve incisioni hard-bop? Come ben testimonia The All Seeing Eye, è il proiettare le più avanzate idee melodiche, armoniche e ritmiche del quintetto davisiano verso atmosfere più sospese e irrisolte, contigue a quelle di Ornette Coleman. Vi si avverte l'anelito a scardinare le regole consolidate, sia pur all'interno della struttura del chorus. ...

Live Review

Umbria Jazz 14 - Fra spettacolo e buon jazz

by Libero Farnè
July 28, 2014

Umbria Jazz 14 Perugia, varie sedi 11-20.07.2014 Lo spettacolo “Divertimentificio," “Industria del divertimento": orribili neologismi, coniati anni orsono poi caduti in disuso, per denotare una delle vocazioni trainanti dei centri balneari della costa romagnola. Anche Umbria Jazz, per buona parte della sua programmazione, è tesa a creare divertimento e spettacolo, occasioni di eccitazione collettiva e di aggregazione giovanile. Con un'opportuna offerta musicale e con ottimi risultati il festival dà quindi una risposta ...