A very happy birthday to a musician who has been an inspiration to me for many years.

Bertrand.

Happy birthday to my favorite jazz composer!

Plus, what bertrand said.

On many days, my favorite tenor saxophonist. Keep it up, Wayne!

Guy

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

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!

Happy birthday indeed to Wayne. I needed an excuse to work my way through the Shorter Blue Notes today and this is it !

Many happy returns!!


Sounds cliched - but a Wayne Shorter album or two or three in the disc player this evening would be in order.

71? Wow...

Congrats to Wayne !!!

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.

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!!

71?????

Damn...

71 is kinda starting to get old, so I took a few minutes to listen to Wayne's "The Elders" from MR. GONE.

Wow.

My life is better for having heard Wayne's music. Happy 71st!

Happy 71st, Mr.Shorter!

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 Alegría 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

So much great music for so many years-may he live and create to 100!
HB WS!!!!

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.

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!

[chortle chortle] Had to laugh, Jim S!

I'm of two minds about Shorter's "Footprints Live" quartet, but I saw him a couple of months ago with Hancock, Holland, and Blade, and what a quartet they made. Free and oblique but gorgeous nonetheless--rather quiet and low-key but that masked a great intensity and served well a certain flair for the dramatic. Nevertheless I wasn't entirely sure about what I had just listened to; the emotional intensity hadn't quite made it through the long distance to the top of the theatre, where I nestled close to the ceiling. However, the show was broadcast on French radio and I was able to get a copy of it, burned to two CDs. I've been listening to little else for the past week. I find it really quite extraordinary. If they don't release a live album from this tour, they're crazy.

Did someone noticed strange (?) coincidence: Pres and Shorter were born at the same day.

I know that Shorter in his youth listened carefully to Lester and admire him a lot, right?

Happy Birthday!

(And for all natal observers and analizers, Bird was born just few days later)

Close but not quite. Shorter is 8/25, Young is 8/27.

Mike