Wayne Shorter playing with his quartet live at Marciac.Wayne has described his drummer Brian Blade as a "meganova" in interviews. I see what he means.I've seen complaints that this band doesn't connect consistently. They're all pulling in the same direction here.
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When he wrote this, Wayne Shorter was thinking of Elvin Jones drum style and was counting on Elvin's ability to play a heavy groove that paradoxically floats in waltz time, to evoke dream time. And he gave pianist McCoy Tyner a sequence of four chords that repeats obsessively until it suspends and floats for a few breaths before the obsession returns, a kind of dream logic.That, with Reggie Wo...
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Just found this video of Milton Nascimento, the great Brazilian singer, performing in Japan with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke and Roberto Silva. This song, whose title means "Miracle of the Fishes" in English, was the title track of one of Milton's greatest albums and was a highlight of Milton's collaboration with Wayne Shorter on Shorter's album "Native Dancer". Milton's range...
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A triple helping this weekend (parts 2 & 3 tomorrow)!After Miles, & before the debut of the Weather Report Group itself, the founding fathers (Zawinul and Shorter) were figuring out their place in the jazz world and putting out solo albums as part of the process.Shorter had released his first solo album as a bandleader in 1959 - a straight ahead jazz swing album featuring Jimmy Cobb on drums an...
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