the WAYNE SHORTER thread

^kind of one of the best stories ever really imo

amazing

Anyone seen the documentary? I want to see it but I don't really want to subscribe to Amazon Prime (and it isn't currently available as a rental, I guess because it's new)

Loved the doc. It's unwieldy in parts but I think that's because Shorter was such a ... erm...unique human. He just seemed to be pure creativity - if that makes any kind of sense. And through this his life was constantly pummeled with crazy, sad blows. The kind of stuff that would make a husk out of most of us. And the man just kept on being spiritual, being in love with music and searching for whatever he was searching for. I have even greater respect for him after watching this.

I need to watch this pronto.

I haven’t listened to but a drop of his catalogue but is there anybody who embodied pure creativity the way he did? I mean as I type this I am thinking of a few names but in a lot of ways he was first in class.

I remember once I briefly met one of his collaborators and they pretty much started talking about him right away: “Wayne said this, Wayne said that” etc

Meant to say started talking about him without any prompting from me. As of course I should know who Wayne was and of course I would want to hear what he said which was 100% true.

I've watched the first two hours — the second hour is unbelievably tragic, but at the same time you get a lot of insight into the inner workings of Weather Report, which I found fascinating. I also had no idea just how much work he'd done with Joni Mitchell, because I don't listen to her music, but now I might.

This thing is in three parts? So far the first part is excellent. It even made me like Neil deGrasse Tyson again.

Damn, don't have Amazon but I need to watch this.

"Shorter was such a ... erm...unique human"

I saw him play as duo with Herbie in 97 or 98. Before they played Maiden Voyage he gave a rather lengthy explanation that the song was about aliens and space travel.