Sunday, February 12, 2017

Wayne Shorter






































Artist:  Wayne Shorter
Born:  August 25, 1933.   Newark, New Jersey, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Instrument, Progressive Jazz, Saxophone Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer
Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone

Wayne Shorter is an American Jazz Saxophonist and Composer, and many of his compositions have become Jazz Standards.  He worked with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1950s and in 1960s, he went to join Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and co-founded the Jazz Fusion Band Weather Report.  He has recorded over 20 albums as a Bandleader, he got 10 Grammy Awards.














Title:  Night Dreamer  (2016)
Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Instrument, Progressive Jazz, Saxophone Jazz
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Night Dreamer  (7:18)
 2.  Oriental Folk Song  (6:54)
 3.  Virgo  (7:09)
 4.  Black Nile  (6:29)
 5.  Charcoal Blues  (6:54)
 6.  Armageddon  (6:22)

Personnel:

Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxophone
Lee Morgan:  Trumpet
McCoy Tyner:  Piano
Reggie Workman:  Bass
Elvin Jones:  Drums

Night Dreamer is the fourth album by Wayne Shorter, originally released on November 1964 by Blue Note, remastered and reissued in 2016 by Blue Note Records, featuring Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones.

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