Wayne Shorter - Music of the Spheres
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Ten years on since his Quartet’s debut, Footprints Live!, Wayne Shorter marks his 80th birthday year by returning to Blue Note Records after a 43-year gap, and releases one of his most profound recordings to date, Without A Net.
Mercurial and mysterious as ever, the saxophonist talks to Stuart Nicholson about how his deep past connections are now shaping his present, and future, conception of music, and what lies beyond!
Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has long been acknowledged as a major figure in jazz. But since he has somehow eluded excesses of hyperbole that customarily swirl around those in the jazz pantheon, there have always been mutterings off-camera like, “Yes, we know he’s a jazz great, but how great?” by those who like their heroes to come plainly labelled. Well, they have their answer now. Shorter’s latest release Without A Net, hyperbole or not, is an album that marks a milestone in his career since it makes eloquent claim to be the finest recording yet by jazz’s greatest living musician.
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