The Bebop Shop : Destination Out! Beyond Bebop : Wayne Shorter
A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf Price: £8.99
That summer he joined the Miles Davis Quintet, cementing a line-up that would become one of the seminal bands in jazz history. And when Shorter entered Van Gelder Studio with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Elvin Jones on Christmas Eve 1964 they created a masterpiece with Speak No Evil, a transcendent set of six Shorter originals including the swinging title track, Witch Hunt, and sublime ballad Infant Eyes.This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Universal Music) Price: £25.99
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Records) Price: £25.99
Shifting from the dramatic ('Genesis') through the beautiful ('Face Of The Deep') to the conflictive ('Chaos'), Shorter's largest acoustic outfit he'd worked with at that time- which included Hubbard, Grachan Moncur III and Shorter's brother Alan on flugelhorn- play expressively, with fire, grace and not always in conventional solos but in intriguing ensembles that convey the drama of a most remarkable story. Price: £8.99
All but one of these tunes were recorded during the group's 2011 tour. The lone exception is "Pegasus," recorded with the Imani Winds at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. There are six new tunes here; the quartet is credited with two of them. Shorter also revises some others, including set opener "Orbits" (the original was on Miles Davis' Miles Smiles) and "Plaza Real" (from Weather Report's Procession album). The only outlier, "Flying Down to Rio," is a version of the title tune from a 1933 film. (Blue Note Records) Price: £13.99