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...Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” was the evening’s ballad, opening with a beautiful duet between guitar and double bass....
...Both joined the late Wayne Shorter’s free-flowing quartet in 2000, and the same balance of freedom and form was presented here....
...Tom Herbert on bass guitar and double bass provided an undertow of warmth and the underused vocalist Eska was a highlight....
...Patitucci and Blade were the dynamic heart of the late Wayne Shorter’s long-running quartet and deliver the same sensitivity and thrust here. Potter is the album’s dominant voice....
...As a model, he mentions Wayne Shorter’s final album Emanon — “no name” written backwards — which features a jazz quartet and 34-piece orchestra....
...The Symphonic Music of Wayne Shorter The Philharmonia Orchestra tackle the oblique lines and shimmering harmonies of saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s late-life orchestral work, some of which he was working on...
...The set ended with Wayne Shorter’s “Edda”, a mid-Sixties mixture of modal waltz and walking bass swing....
...He’s now back in England and this gig presented new music for an upcoming recording, adding second-set covers of compositions by Wayne Shorter as an indicator of style....
...Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” came next, arranged by trumpeter Terence Blanchard with the original waltz tempo changed to an uneasy 4/4....
...There were passages of house, techno and drum and bass alongside the blocky beats of their core 1990s sound, a kind of dance-music boom-bap....
...The leader, addressing the audience for the first time, described the gig as “a love letter to Wayne Shorter” and introduced the band....
...The otherworldly vibe of Wayne Shorter’s “The Three Marias” gained an orchestral shape alongside sour sustains from Chris Lewis’s soprano sax....
...As the piece evolves, bass joins piano and the pulse grows more intense....
...The highlight of the set and the evening was Siegel’s rearrangement of the late Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints”, now played on bass clarinet and switched to a sensuous 5/4....
...The play-out was funky and Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” segued into the spiritual “Wade in the Water”....
...On the title track, he talks about the “duality” of his musical identity, “raised on pop and bass”....
...Waits whacked, rolled and rumbled, bass delivered counterpoint lines and Potter soared once more. ★★★★★ ronniescotts.co.uk...
...Cowherd co-led drummer Brian Blade’s Fellowship band while Blade and bassist John Patitucci were the rhythmic whirlwind at the heart of Wayne Shorter’s long-running quartet....
.... ★★★☆☆ ‘Shorter Moments: Exploring the World of Wayne’ is released by Posi-Tone...
...Piano soared over funky bass, trumpet and guitar solos impressed, and moods changed on cue....
...challenged a logistics brigade: lasers so powerful they necessitated the temporary closure of Womad’s giant Ferris wheel; confetti cannons; smoke machines; Zorb balls; and a tiny mechanical bird that singer Wayne...
...“The characters in our culture drive the value of the boards,” says Bass....
...He also played piano, synthesisers and at one point a harp, while Yorke moved between keyboards and guitars, including bass....
...Curated by Lloyd Bradley, author of the books Bass Culture and Sounds Like London, the season explores, among other things, potent US-Jamaican musical exchanges....
...As the film begins, billionaire vigilante Bruce Wayne is plagued by self-doubt. Pattinson is 35, but his Wayne has a nagging sense of the teenage. Specifically, a teenager in the early 1990s....
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