bertrand Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 A very happy birthday to a musician who has been an inspiration to me for many years. Bertrand. Quote
Free For All Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Happy birthday to my favorite jazz composer! Plus, what bertrand said. Quote
Guy Berger Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 On many days, my favorite tenor saxophonist. Keep it up, Wayne! Guy Quote
Michael Fitzgerald Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Currently enjoying the Buhaina's Delight album with several Shorter tunes and his great arrangement of Moon River. Hey - isn't this really a Wayne Shorter date? He did almost all of the writing and arranging for it. (Just kidding) Mike Quote
brownie Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Happy birthday to Wayne Shorter who brought so much musical pleasure! Enjoyed listening lately to a number of his recorded appearances with the Jazz Messengers. He and Lee Morgan were quite a pair! Quote
sidewinder Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Happy birthday indeed to Wayne. I needed an excuse to work my way through the Shorter Blue Notes today and this is it ! Quote
LAL Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Many happy returns!! Sounds cliched - but a Wayne Shorter album or two or three in the disc player this evening would be in order. Quote
Alon Marcus Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Happy birthday Wayne ! Speak No Evil - was an enlightning discovery for me after which i started looking for everything he did as sideman and leader. There are many aspects of this wonderfull artist to discuss about but the one of the biggest interest to me is his "forbidden albums". I mean all the stuff he did just before entering weather report and in the eighties. Most jazz fans I know become sick when these mentioned but in my opinion they are just as great as his blue note classics. The "soprano albums" beginning from late sixties are true masterpieces in improvisation. Capricorn and Water Babies sound to me much better than the Miles Davis version. The eighties albums are less spontaneous but the compositions surely not worse, and sometimes better, than the blue note compositions. Electronics - that's what probably makes this discs undigestable to most of us but listen to the arrangments. They are like a maze (with lots of logic) for the listener. Quote
RainyDay Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 I was going to pop in Speak No Evil just now as a tribute but I must have taken it home. Rats. I love Wayne Shorter. Happy Birthday!! Quote
JSngry Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 71 is kinda starting to get old, so I took a few minutes to listen to Wayne's "The Elders" from MR. GONE. Wow. Quote
maren Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 71? Wow... I know! Doesn't fit my picture! Guess I'll just have to readjust my view of what 71 is. Quote
Noj Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 My life is better for having heard Wayne's music. Happy 71st! Quote
king ubu Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Happy birthday to this great artist! I was extremely impressed when Footprintslive came out! A very very daring concept of music, mastered with great results. Will spin AlegrÃa again. Just got it, and was a bit underwhelmed, but then I think it's not one that jumps at you from the beginning. ubu Quote
PHILLYQ Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 So much great music for so many years-may he live and create to 100! HB WS!!!! Quote
JohnJ Posted August 26, 2004 Report Posted August 26, 2004 Happy Birthday Wayne. One of my favourites too, by coincidence my copy of Alegria arrived yesterday and I Look forward to listening to it soon. Hopefully, I will be able to catch Wayne, together with Hernie Hancock and others, at Tokyo Jazz on September 18. Quote
JSngry Posted August 26, 2004 Report Posted August 26, 2004 TOP TEN LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT WAYNE SHORTER 10 - His first name is really "Thewayon"! 9 - 3 time Newark Youth Mambo Champion (Pre-Teen Division)! 8 - Played every instrument on every Weather Report album! 7 - Conducted the orchestra for brother Parnell Shorter's 1961 Grammy Award winning album of Schubert lieder done in sign language for the hearing-impaired! 6 - Childhood sweetheart? Betsy Palmer! 5 - "Nefertitti" really based on changes to "How High The Moon"! 4 - Invented microwave popcorn! 3 - Directed the pilot of "Charlie's Angels"! 2 - Certified Electrolux Dealer! And the Number One Little-Known Fact About Wayne Shorter........ 1 - He's Ravi Shankar's daughter! Quote
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