Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158542353X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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She carefully details his early influences, including his mother's tireless indulgence of his creative whims and his fascination with the 1948 film The Red Shoes, whose central conflict—living for oneself versus living for one's art—would define his career. B&w photos not seen by PW. Interviews with Shorter, Carlos Santana, Amiri Baraka and dozens of others lend depth and tone to this clear-eyed account. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Mercer also shines in her consideration of some Shorter's less critically acclaimed efforts, including his genre-defying work with Joni Mitchell and Brazilian pop singer and composer Milton Nascimento. From Publishers Weekly Legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter gets an appreciative appraisal in this excellent biography by music journalist Mercer, who follows this "determinedly eccentric" genius from his early days wit
Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Village Voice, Down Beat, and Jazziz. Michelle Mercer is a music writer and a regular music commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933, he learned bebop as an adolescent in cutting contests with Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins. The saxophonist was the catalyst in the famous 1960s quintet of Miles Davis, then followed the trumpeter on his avant-garde electric excursions. In this first biography of Shorter, Michelle Mercer traces the amazing trajectory of his fifty-year career. Into the 1980s and 1990s Wayne's solos graced pop recordings like Steely Dan's "Aja" and Joni Mitchell's "Hejira." And today, at age seventy, he is leading the Wayne Shorter Quartet, a group that critics have compared to Coltrane's classic quartet and to Davis's own groundbreaking quintet. A rich portrait of a great American artist, Footprints. Nobody else can do that now." In many ways, Wayne Shorter's story is the story of modern American music. makes a vital contribution to the literature of jazz.. In the
T. Klaase said Lovely Wayne,. "Music is a drop of water, in the ocean of life." When Wayne Shorter makes a statement like that - it says something to me, as a musician and as a human being. This is a fab story of a difficult but rewarding life. All ends well. Wayne is an enigma. Highly enjoyable.. a musician said good not great. This book is decent effort that somewhat suffers from the authors access to it's subject. Michelle Mercer spent many hours interviewing Wayne and as a result the book feels almost like an autobiography rather than an objective study of an artist and his music. I enjoyed the sections on Waynes early years but the music is glossed over at times. I consider "Speak No Evil" a very influential recording and it's . Todd Y said Shorter bio hits all the right notes. I'm a jazz sax player, and just finished reading this book. It's a real page-turner, and I couldn't put it down. Though light on musical analysis (there is no musical notation in the text of the book), it delves deeply into the sources of Shorter's genius and creativity.The coverage of Shorter's early years, and his obsession with movies (especially The Red Shoes), and with the children's novel The Water Bab