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 | Title : Footprints Live
Author : Shorter, Wayne
Release Date : 20020521
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
The only thing more astonishing than the originality and complexity of tenor saxophonist-composer Wayne Shorter's music is that this CD is his first live recording as a leader. Captured in Europe in the summer of 2001, Shorter's compositions are reinvented by Danilo Perez's sterling pianisms, John Patitucci's rock-steady bass lines, and drummer Brian Blade's stunning synthesis of Elvin Jones and Tony Williams' styles. 'Masquelero,' 'Sanctuary,' and the hypnotic 'Footprints' are resurrected from his stint in Miles Davis's '60s combos. 'Go,' the African-derived 'Juju,' and Shorter's ingenious arrangement of Jean Sibelius's 'Valse Triste' come from his Blue Note LPs of the same era. The moody melodicisms of 'Atlantis' and the Afro-Eurasian evocations of 'Aung San Suu Kyi,' named for the Burmese political activist, are from Shorter recordings from 1985 and 1997. Simply put, Wayne Shorter is a jazz god, and these are his sacred sonic scriptures.
Buyer Reviews :
When I consider Shorter's great '60's quartets for tenor sax and rhythm section (Ju Ju, Etc.Etc. and Adam's Apple) - those long haunting lines, the almost mystical lyricism, the passion deep as Coltrane, yet gentler and cooler - I wonder what happened to the spirit of those golden-black years of jazz. Like so many of his brothers, Shorter abandoned acoustic contemplative jazz for fusion and went electric. In recovery, he, Herbie Handcock and others have tried to recapture that sound, but their sensibility seems hollowed out and ennervated by all the electricity, which has made their sound brittle and disjointed as a sputtering wire. The music on this album never coheres into a satisfying whole. It's all in ghostly fragments - echos seeking some electricity to jolt them back to life. A sound so disconnected from the humanity of the audience that I fear the rave reviews are more like desperate hopes, hopes that Shorter might regain his powers now that he's returned to acoustic jazz. But it's not happening here.
(by flamotte)
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