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☆ Jazz’s Hancock Competition Returns, Crowning an Electrifying Rising Star
  + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Giovanni Russonello | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Jazz’s future — actually, its present — looks brighter than it has in at least 50 years. In April 2022, Jon Batiste cleaned up at the Grammys, becoming the first jazz musician below retirement age in decades to win album of the year. Young improvisers like him seem less intimidated than ever by jazz’s gloried history, and are dumping their energies into fusions and multimedia projects. For much of Saturday afternoon, when 11 pianists under 30 competed in the semifinals, there was cause to wonder. At one point I started to wonder if there was a rule against bringing in your own original tunes.
Persons: —, Jon Batiste, Young improvisers, jazz’s, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin, Carl Allen Organizations: Hancock
☆ Doja Cat Goes Horror Pop, and 12 More New Songs
  + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Jon Pareles | Giovanni Russonello | Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Dolores” is easily one of the most infectious melodies Wayne Shorter wrote during his stint as musical director for the Miles Davis Quintet. But it’s not one of the (many) Shorter tunes you’re likely to hear called at a jam session or covered at a straight-ahead gig. Maybe there is something intimidating about the balled up, stop-and-start melody; the centerlessness of its structure; or how perfectly the quintet plays it on the classic 1966 recording. Strong-but-bendable rhythm, splintered melodic lines and rough-and-tumble interplay are par for the course for (this) Davis, especially with her Diatom Ribbons project. When Lage departs from it on his solo, he travels far — and the band comes with him.
Persons: “ Dolores ”, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, it’s, Kris Davis, Davis, Trevor Dunn, Terri Lyne Carrington, Julian Lage’s, Lage, RUSSONELLO Organizations: Village Vanguard
☆ ‘Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity’ Review: A Jazz Mystic
  + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Wayne Shorter Photo: Prime VideoAt the end of “Portal 1”—as episodes of “ Wayne Shorter : Zero Gravity” are designated—bassist Dave Holland recalls a comment by the late, great saxophonist-composer at the heart of the series. “I wonder what happens when you get to the end of the universe,” mused Mr. Shorter, whose life and career were spent traveling along the edge of the art-jazz cosmos; it seems perfectly reasonable that an astrophysicist ( Neil deGrasse Tyson ) should be among the prominent players in a Shorter story. And one of the intoxicating things about “Zero Gravity” is that writer-director Dorsay Alavi not only appreciates her subject’s space-child inclinations, but makes them an essential part of her musical, celestial, must-see documentary.
Persons: Wayne Shorter, —, “ Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Shorter, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dorsay Alavi
☆ 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Herbie Hancock
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Marcus J. Moore | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Now, we’re turning to Herbie Hancock, the groundbreaking pianist and composer who emerged in jazz as something of a prodigy. His career took off after the trumpeter Donald Byrd asked Hancock to play in his quintet. By the early ’70s, Hancock had all but abandoned jazz for funk and ambient textures, and released challenging music that didn’t fit one box in particular. In 1973, he released his biggest album, “Head Hunters,” a propulsive funk odyssey that went platinum and led to Hancock playing to huge crowds. Below, we asked 11 musicians, writers and critics to share their favorite Hancock songs.
☆ Wayne Shorter, Influential Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 89
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Wayne Shorter , an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. Shorter died Thursday in Los Angeles, a representative for the musician said. No cause of death was given.
☆ Wayne Shorter, master composer of jazz, dies aged 89
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( William Schomberg | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/3] U.S. Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter performs onstage during a 'tribute to Miles Davis evening' at the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 13, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin FlauraudMarch 2 (Reuters) - American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who wrote some of jazz's most acclaimed compositions and whose often plaintive playing changed the sound of jazz in the 1960s before he explored rock-fusion, died on Thursday aged 89. "The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter," the keyboardist said. "Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed." Other hit records included "Native Dancer" featuring Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento which mixed jazz, rock and funk with Brazilian rhythms.
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