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Wayne Shorter - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection [6CD Remastered Box Set] (2012)

Wayne Shorter - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection [6CD Remastered Box Set] (2012)

BAND/ARTIST: Wayne Shorter

  • Title: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
  • Year Of Release: 2012
  • Label: Sony BMG/Columbia [88697920242-D1]
  • Genre: Modal Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Post-Bop, Fusion, Jazz
  • Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log)
  • Total Time: 4:48:43
  • Total Size: 661 mb / 1,81 gb
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Though some will argue about whether Wayne Shorter's primary impact on jazz has been as a composer or as a saxophonist, hardly anyone will dispute his overall importance as one of jazz's leading figures over a long span of time. Though indebted to a great extent to John Coltrane, with whom he practiced in the mid-'50s while still an undergraduate, Shorter eventually developed his own more succinct manner on tenor sax, retaining the tough tone quality and intensity and, in later years, adding an element of funk. On soprano, Shorter is almost another player entirely, his lovely tone shining like a light beam, his sensibilities attuned more to lyrical thoughts, his choice of notes becoming more spare as his career unfolded. Shorter's influence as a player, stemming mainly from his achievements in the '60s and '70s, was tremendous upon the neo-bop brigade who emerged in the early '80s, most notably Branford Marsalis. As a composer, he is best known for carefully conceived, complex, long-limbed, endlessly winding tunes, many of which have become jazz standards yet have spawned few imitators.

Shorter started on the clarinet at 16 but switched to tenor sax before entering New York University in 1952. After graduating with a BME in 1956, he played with Horace Silver for a short time until he was drafted into the Army for two years. Once out of the service, he joined Maynard Ferguson's band, meeting Ferguson's pianist Joe Zawinul in the process. The following year (1959), Shorter joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, where he remained until 1963, eventually becoming the band's music director. During the Blakey period, Shorter also made his debut on records as a leader, cutting several albums for Chicago's Vee-Jay label. After a few prior attempts to hire him away from Blakey, Miles Davis finally convinced Shorter to join his quintet in September 1964, thus completing the lineup of a group whose biggest impact would leapfrog a generation into the '80s.

Staying with Miles until 1970, Shorter became the band's most prolific composer at times, contributing tunes like "E.S.P.," "Pinocchio," "Nefertiti," "Sanctuary," "Footprints," "Fall," and the signature description of Miles, "Prince of Darkness." While playing through Miles' transition from loose post-bop acoustic jazz into electronic jazz-rock, Shorter also took up the soprano in late 1968, an instrument that turned out to be more suited to riding above the new electronic timbres than the tenor. As a prolific solo artist for Blue Note during this period, Shorter expanded his palette from hard bop almost into the atonal avant-garde, with fascinating excursions into jazz-rock territory toward the turn of the decade.

In November 1970, Shorter teamed up with old cohort Joe Zawinul and Miroslav Vitous to form Weather Report, where after a fierce start, Shorter's playing grew mellower, pithier, more consciously melodic, and gradually more subservient to Zawinul's concepts. By now he was playing mostly on soprano, though the tenor would re-emerge more toward the end of WR's run. Shorter's solo ambitions were mostly on hold during the WR days, resulting in but one atypical solo album, Native Dancer, an attractive side trip into Brazilian-American tropicalismo in tandem with Milton Nascimento. Shorter also revisited the past in the late '70s by touring with Freddie Hubbard and ex-Miles sidemen Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams as V.S.O.P.

Shorter finally left Weather Report in 1985, but promptly went into a creative slump. Still committed to electronics and fusion, his recorded compositions from this point became more predictable and labored, saddled with leaden rhythm sections and overly complicated arrangements. After three routine Columbia albums during 1986-1988, and a tour with Santana, he lapsed into silence, finally emerging in 1992 with Wallace Roney and the V.S.O.P. rhythm section in the "A Tribute to Miles" band. In 1994, now on Verve, Shorter released High Life, a somewhat more engaging collaboration with keyboardist Rachel Z.

In concert, he has fielded an erratic series of bands, which could be incoherent one year (1995) and lean and fit the next (1996). He guested on the Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon in 1997, and on Herbie Hancock's Gershwin's World in 1998. In 2001, he was back with Hancock for Future 2 Future and on Marcus Miller's M². Footprints Live! was released in 2002 under his own name with a new band that included pianist Danílo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade, followed by Alegría in 2003 and Beyond the Sound Barrier in 2005. Given his long track record, Shorter's every record and appearance are still eagerly awaited by fans in the hope that he will thrill them again. Blue Note Records released Blue Note's Great Sessions: Wayne Shorter in 2006.

Though absent from recording, Shorter continued to tour regularly with the same quartet after 2005. They re-emerged on record again in February of 2013 with a live outing from their 2011 tour. Without a Net, his first recording for Blue Note in 43 years, was released in February of 2013, as a precursor to his 80th birthday., Rovi


TRACKLIST:

Disc 1 - Weather Report 1
01 Tears
02 Eurydice
03 moors
04 Surucucu
05 Manolete
06 Non-Stop Home
07 Mysterious Traveler
08 Blackthorn Rose
09 Lusitanos
10 Freezing Fire
11 Elegant People
12 Three Clowns
13 Harlequin
14 Palladium

Disc 2 - Weather Report 2
01 Elders
02 Sightseeing
03 Port Of Entry
04 When It Was Now
05 Plaza Real
06 Predator
07 Swamp Cabbage
08 Pearl on the Half Shell
09 Face On The Barroom Floor

Disc 3 - Native Dancer
01 Ponta de Areia
02 Beauty And The Beast
03 Tarde
04 Miracle of the Fishes
05 Diana
06 From the Lonely Afternoons
07 Ana Maria
08 Lilia
09 Joanna's Theme

Disc 4 - Atlantis
01 Endangered Species
02 Three Marias
03 Last Silk Hat
04 When You Dream
05 Who Goes There!
06 Atlantis
07 Shere Khan, the Tiger
08 Criancas
09 On the Eve of Departure

Disc 5 - Phantom Navigator
01 Condition Red
02 Mahagony Bird
03 Remote Control
04 Yamanja
05 Forbidden, Plan-It!
06 Flagships

Disc 6 - Joy Ryder
01 Joy Ryder
02 Cathay
03 Over Shadow Hill Way
04 Anthem
05 Causeways
06 Daredevil
07 Someplace Called "Where"

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