Wayne Shorter – Without a Net (2013)
Growing up in the age of Weather Report, I'll admit that it was difficult to gauge the breadth of Wayne Shorter's importance as a composer in the modern jazz tradition.
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Growing up in the age of Weather Report, I'll admit that it was difficult to gauge the breadth of Wayne Shorter's importance as a composer in the modern jazz tradition.
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There have been some wilderness years since Weather Report (for jazz as well as Wayne Shorter), but this live recording from a recent world tour confirms the veteran sax man (who's 80 in August) as the most startling improviser on the planet.
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An all-star trio of jazz-rock veterans, HBC offers resourceful, focused, and — turn it up! — often ferocious take on the old-school fusion of Weather Report, Billy Cobham and Herbie Hancock.
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Turns out, this was one funky ship that ran ashore.
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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley is the undisputed leader on this date — the big-hearted, soul-lifting center of every song.
Read MoreThis latest archive release documents the pioneers of world jazz after the spotlight of stardom dimmed.
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Call it the Ultimate Jazz Festival, as Sony Music's PopMarket.com website presents Complete Album Collections on Columbia Records and RCA Records (spanning the 1950s to the '00s) by the greatest names in modern jazz - the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Return To Forever, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington Jr., and Weather Report (all on Columbia); and Paul Desmond and Nina Simone (on RCA).
Read MoreFormer singer with riotous Paris-Algerian fusionists Orchestre National de Barbès and Weather Report's Joe Zawinul, Sahmaoui presents a contemporary take on his ancestral Gnawa trance music.
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Easy comparisons arrive quickly as the new self-titled Abstract Logix debut release by Human Element spins, since the group has connections to the original pioneers who fused jazz and world music.
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This version of Joe Zawinul's ship of state featured Peter Erskine and Jaco Pastorius as the Rhythm Section Which Gives You More, but no ancilliary percussionist.
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As one of the seminal jazz-rock bands of the seventies, Weather Report has been plenty celebrated and covered.
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Fusion jazz drummer Lenny White is prepping for a reunion with the newly expanded Return to Forever, which will make 32 stops in the U.S. beginning in Pittsburgh on August 7.
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Members of the 'not more old jazz' lobby might find it hard to raise a smile let alone lend an ear to something like this, but that would be their loss.
Read MoreOriginally recorded for German TV, this CD & DVD package catches the group in their funky-prog phase, with Alphonso Johnson on bass, Chester Thompson on drums and Alex Acuna on percussion added to co-leaders Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter.
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Catching the editor of this newspaper discussing the changing nature of journalism on the BBC's Newsnight this week set me reflecting on this jazz series and how invaluable the stimulation from readers has been.
Read MoreIt's going to have to be Marvin Gaye. One of my all-time favourite records is one of the last ones he recorded, 'Midnight Love', from 1983.
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Joe Zawinul started his recording career as a bandleader in 1959, but he was soon working as a sideman.
Read MoreWeather Report was an influential American jazz band of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Read MoreI've gone on record more than once saying I lean more toward John Coltrane than Miles Davis .
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Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop are usually credited for helping to kill off the peace and love Woodstock hippy rainbow vibe in 1970.
Read MoreMultiple personality disorder is considered an affliction among the mentally disabled, but when it comes to the artistry of that unquenchable, multidimensional guitarist Nels Cline, it's the very thing that makes him such an unpredictably compelling musician.
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