Wayne Shorter Lincoln Center 4/27-28

[bertrand]

I am going up to NYC tomorrow for both nights of the quartet, followed by the 11:30 Endangered Species set across the hall at Dizzy's. Anyone else going?

Bertrand.

[ValerieB]

I am going up to NYC tomorrow for both nights of the quartet, followed by the 11:30 Endangered Species set across the hall at Dizzy's. Anyone else going?

Bertrand.

how i wish!! enjoy, Bertrand!

[JSngry]

Who is the quartet now?

[fasstrack]

I wonder if a 1998 concert-an early event of JALC-is available on recording? I know NPR broadcasted some of it. There were 2 nights and I went to one-and it was magical. The magic didn't start until the house band sat down and Wayne did his thing w/his people. They (the JALC guys) are fine musicians but were doing a studenty job of trying to ape what Wayne did in '65. Probably nervous, definitely young. But Wayne cooperated, and played a lot of tenor. When his 'peeps' came onstage-including Jim Beard and David Gilmore-Wayne bore down and played music from High Life and new music, including a piece for orchestra-fresh as a daisy and difficult as hell. Which didn't stop him from sailing through it on tenor. Or the Great Prophet Peter Watrous from panning this great event b/c Christian McBride 'picked up a bass guitar'. Horrors!

[Hardbopjazz]

Who is the quartet now?

pianist- Danilo Perez, bassist- John Patitucci, and drummer- Brian Blade

I wish I didn't have something scheduled these next two nights or I would have been at one of the shows.

Bertrand, a full report is due Monday on how the 2 concerts were.

Edited April 27, 2012 by Hardbopjazz

[JSngry]

Same guys still, eh? Glad to hear it! Continuity, not so much of that going around these days, lots of "projects", which is cool, but there's something about having a group stay together for years, even if it's not 24/7/365(6) that there's no substitute for.

[Hardbopjazz]

Yup. Couldn't agree more. When you play together for years you begin know and anticipate what will happen. The Coltrane Quartet is another example. Today Randy Weston's been playing with the same musicians for years. The only change in that band was when Benny Powell past away. Not that many more groups can make that claim.

[Guy Berger]

I saw this group last night. They were great. I really think this group is a natural extension of early (1971-72) Weather Report, and am surprised that more reviewers don't mention this. They always solo, they never solo.

The only tune I recognized was "Plaza Real".

Guy