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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 Workman's bass, provides the underneath. Elvin, McCoy and Workman lock in to gi... MORE





