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In 2000, Shorter formed the first permanent acoustic group under his name, a quartet with pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John
Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade, playing his own compositions, many of them reworkings of tunes going back to the 1960s.
Two albums of live recordings have been released, Footprints Live! (2002) and Beyond the Sound Barrier (2005). The quartet
has received great acclaim from fans and critics, especially for the strength of Shorter's tenor saxophone playing. The biography
Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter by journalist Michelle Mercer examines the ...read more
In 2000, Shorter formed the first permanent acoustic group under his name, a quartet with pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John
Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade, playing his own compositions, many of them reworkings of tunes going back to the 1960s.
Two albums of live recordings have been released, Footprints Live! (2002) and Beyond the Sound Barrier (2005). The quartet
has received great acclaim from fans and critics, especially for the strength of Shorter's tenor saxophone playing. The biography
Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter by journalist Michelle Mercer examines the working life of the musicians as well
as Shorter's thoughts and Buddhist beliefs.[7] Beyond the Sound Barrier received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental
Jazz Album.
Shorter's 2003 album Alegría (his first studio album for ten years, since High Life) received the 2004 Grammy Award for Best
Instrumental Jazz Album; it features the quartet with a host of other musicians, including pianist Brad Mehldau, drummer Terri
Lyne Carrington and former Weather Report percussionist Alex Acuña. Shorter's compositions, some new, some reworked from
his Miles Davis period, feature the complex Latin rhythms that Shorter specialised in during his Weather Report days. « hide |
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