Description:
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Without a Net (2013) [FLAC]
Label: Blue Note – 509999 79516 2 9
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 2013
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz
The Wayne Shorter quartet (with pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade) formed in 2000. Though many now regard them as the best small jazz ensemble in the world and they tour most years, this is only their third album – and all three are live. Shorter (pictured), 80 this year, returns to Blue Note, the scene of many of his 1960s triumphs. There are eight quartet tracks from a European tour (six new) plus a 23-minute piece augmented by the woodwind and brass ensemble Imani Winds. Orbits (from Miles Davis's Miles Smiles) sets the tone, as Shorter's soprano sax lines arrive over a sinister piano hook, duck in and out of intensifying free swing, and playfully echo Perez's piano figures. SS Golden Mean has Shorter quoting Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca, and Pegasus shifts from an opening motif like an old Mahavishnu Orchestra hook, through a sequence of shifting melodies and and breathtaking improvising. Flying Down to Rio – a quirky choice that works – finds the leader in more placid mood, blithely caressing the melody while the others stretch and pull away from it. Without a Net is free to bursting point, but it's a triumph.
Tracklist:
1 Orbits
Composed By – Wayne Shorter
4:50
2 Starry Night
Composed By – Wayne Shorter
8:49
3 S.S. Golden Mean
Composed By – Wayne Shorter
5:18
4 Plaza Real
Composed By – Wayne Shorter
6:59
5 Myrrh
Composed By – Wayne Shorter
3:05
6 Pegasus
Bassoon – Monica EllisClarinet – Mariam AdamComposed By – Wayne ShorterFlute – Valerie Coleman (2)French Horn – Jeff Scott*Instruments – Imani Winds, The*Oboe – Toyin Spellman-Diaz*
23:07
7 Flying Down To Rio
Composed By – Edward Eliscu, Gus Kahn, Vincent Youmans
12:47
8 Zero Gravity To The 10th Power
Composed By – Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Wayne Shorter
8:13
9 (The Notes) Unidentified Flying Objects
Composed By – Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Wayne Shorter
4:12
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Blue Note Records
Copyright (c) – Blue Note Records
Mixed At – AcousTech Music Productions
Mastered At – Battery Mastering Studios
Recorded At – Walt Disney Concert Hall
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – AD00187
A&R – Don Was
A&R [Administration] – Steve Cook (12)
Bass – John Patitucci
Coordinator [Production] – Tom Korkidis
Creative Director, Design – Gordon H Jee
Drums – Brian Blade
Engineer [Recording Assistant] – Gabriel Fonseca
Executive-Producer – Scott Southard
Illustration [Cover] – Wayne Shorter
Mastered By – Mark Wilder
Mixed By [Assistant] – Jeff Ciampa (3)
Mixed By, Engineer – Rob Griffin (3)
Photography By – Robert Ascroft
Piano – Danilo Perez
Producer – Wayne Shorter
Soprano Saxophone – Wayne Shorter
Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter
Mixed at AcousTech Music Productions, Columbus, OH
Mastered at Battery Mastering Studios, New York, NY
"Pegasus" was recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall on December 8, 2010
Danilo Perez appears courtesy of Mack Avenue
John Patitucci appears courtesy of Concord Jazz
www.wayneshorter.com
www.bluenote.com
? 2013 Blue Note Records.
© 2013 Blue Note REcords.
Printed in EU. 509999 79516 2 9
The Imani Winds are: Valerie Coleman, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Mariam Adam, Jeff Scott, Monica Ellis
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