Wayne Shorter – Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) (2024) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Wayne Shorter – Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) (2024)
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Blue Note Records has announced an August 23 release of Celebration, Volume 1, the first in a series of archival releases that the legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter curated before he passed away in 2023. This thrilling 2014 live recording captured Shorter’s acclaimed quartet with pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade at the Stockholm Jazz Festival in Sweden. The intrepid set includes some of the band’s favorite vehicles of exploration including “Zero Gravity,” “Smilin’ Through,” “Orbits,” “Lotus,” and “She Moves Through The Fair.” The album is introduced today with the single “Edge of the World (End Title),” a theme by composer Arthur B. Rubinstein from the 1983 film WarGames.Celebration, Volume 1 is the first in a series of releases that saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter curated from archival material before his passing in 2023. The album features his long-running band—Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade—in a live 2014 performance recorded at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden.

The opening cut, “Zero Gravity to the 15th Dimension,” nicely displays the superlative quartet’s qualities: four strong individual voices with an ability to move in several directions that, in the end, result in a finely-shaped group performance. Shorter’s breathy tenor sax runs are marvels of subtlety, and he is expert at falling silent at key moments, producing a sense of expectation. Perez is plugged into Shorter’s every move, expanding and commenting on the mellifluous saxophone lines. Patitucci and Blade craft appealing timbres and a sense of forward motion, even when they are floating in free time.

Shorter’s classic “Orbits” kicked off Miles Davis’s 1967 release, Miles Smiles. The piece features a theme that clearly bears the saxophonist’s compositional stamp. Davis’s version is four-and-a-half-minutes of hard-swinging post-bop with penetrating solos by Davis, Shorter, and Herbie Hancock. But on Celebration, the piece is rendered in diffuse, exploratory fashion. As different as the two takes are, they each dazzle with inventive variations on the intriguing head.

The entirety of Celebration is excellent, but one standout is a riveting rendition of Arthur B. Rubinstein’s “Edge of the World (End Title),” which is part of the film composer’s score for the 1983 thriller, WarGames. Shorter plays the melody on soprano saxophone with pointed feeling and few embellishments. Brushed drums, arco and pizzicato bass, and sensitive piano provide accompaniment that perfectly supports Shorter’s trenchant and emotional melodic contours. – Fred Cisterna

Tracklist:

1-01. Wayne Shorter – Zero Gravity to the 15th Dimension (Live) (11:44)
1-02. Wayne Shorter – Smilin’ Through (Live) (08:56)
1-03. Wayne Shorter – Zero Gravity to the 11th Dimension (Live) (02:06)
1-04. Wayne Shorter – Zero Gravity to the 12th Dimension (Live) (02:00)
1-05. Wayne Shorter – Zero Gravity – Unbound (Live) (03:35)
1-06. Wayne Shorter – Orbits (Live) (09:49)
1-07. Wayne Shorter – Edge Of The World (End Title) (Live) (06:59)
1-08. Wayne Shorter – Zero Gravity to the 90th Dimension (Live) (03:21)
1-09. Wayne Shorter – Lotus (Live) (19:34)
1-10. Wayne Shorter – She Moves Through The Fair (Live) (20:16)

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