COMPANY: Membran
ARTIST: Wayne Shorter
CATEGORY: CD

Product: 4053796000989

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Wayne Shorter (geb. 1933)

Mr. Gone: The Best Of The Early Years

"The master composer (in the second Miles Davis quintet) for me, was Wayne Shorter. He's still a Master. Wayne was one of the few people whose Miles Davis incorporated unchanged into his repertoire repertoire." Herbie Hancock

Legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, "probably the most important living Composer of small group jazz and a contender for the title of "greatest the title of "greatest living improviser" (according to Ben Ratliff, New York Times), celebrates his 80th birthday on August 25, 2013. Birthday. This 10 CD box set "Original Album Collection" sheds new light on the formative years of "Mr. Gone." as the musician born in Newark, New Jersey, was already called before he was a member of the second great Miles Davis Quintet (in the 1960s) or led his genre-spanning project Weather Report (70s) Weather Report project (70s and 80s)

Including a number of early Shorter originals such as "Down In The Depths", "Seeds Of Sin" or "The Albatross", the box presents the then 26 - (respectively 27 -) year old as one of the most important improvisers and Composers for "Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers" - in studio recordings Studio recordings and rare live sessions, most of which are not most of which are not available on CD nowadays.