Wayne Shorter cooks up a hot tune here. The tune has a bebop-like headlong rush – the head alone will get you out of your seat, it's so driving and interesting. Shorter has paired a harmony and melody that don't match up that closely – the melody, intentionally (according to Shorter) has the feel of a solo. And of course Blakey swings his tush off behind it. Shorter does what he does so well: serve up a harmonically complex set of changes that nonetheless allow for someone to blow hard over them. And indeed Shorter on tenor, Lee Morgan on trumpet and Bobby Timm… read more
Wayne Shorter cooks up a hot tune here. The tune has a bebop-like headlong rush – the head alone will get you out of your seat, it's so dr… read more
Wayne Shorter cooks up a hot tune here. The tune has a bebop-like headlong rush – the head alone will get you out of your seat, it's so driving and interesting. Shorter has pa… read more
Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers in 1955 and co-led it. When Silver dropped out in the group's first year the group name was changed to Art Blakey & The Jazz… read more
Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers in 1955 and co-led it. When Silver dropped out in the group's first year the group name was changed to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Wayne Shorter was a long-standin… read more