Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

[ImaniHekima]

Oh to have been in the studio when this was recorded!

[willie33040]

Old school cool!  :)

[dallaskenn]

To think that as a youngster I took it for granted that I had all these albums of his and Miles etc.

[subg88]

Long live Wayne Shorter. One of the few remaining whose name can be mentioned along the likes of Coltrane, Miles, Rollins, Gillespie, etc..

[zeitguy311]

CHAhhh!!! thats bad cats

[Hamburger247]

Good shit

[butchchase]

very harmonic.thanks

[royalistp]

When comparing the 2 look at in this manner. One was the top of the line Benz the other top of the line Lexus. With either you just can't miss. The beauty for us is we are able to listen to both, go back and forth and decide which one fit your particular mood at that time.

[MrWarandlove]

Back then was the best of the best, I mean there where great jazz artists, like Wes Montgomery, Herbie Hancock, Joe Pass, Ahmad Jamal, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Art blakey,Charles Mingus. These people are the jazz greates of all time plus others.

[1GlenAlan]

@MrWarandlove

You know it, Bro. Back in '67, we use to call this ridin' music, meaning we'd get in our lowrider cars w/mags and cruise down PCH in Malibu, CA listening to all those people you named while smokin' a big fat joint!

From 1GlenAlan in CPT, CA (if you know what I mean).

[MrWarandlove]

@1GlenAlan O Yeah!. You sound like man who had sum good times. I'm young man, and some young people just don't know how to have fun. But that's how it is with the new generation.

[1GlenAlan]

@MrWarandlove

You're right! We had some great times back in those days. On two different Sat. afternoons we had Nancy Wilson and Hugh Masekela performing (LIVE) in the Assembly Hall for us students, and it was FREE!!! Hugh did a tune with Big Black called "A Felicidade". You ought to hear it!!! It took awhile but I finally got on CD. Try looking on website FrostWire.

[Glen G. from Compton, CA.]

[MrWarandlove]

@1GlenAlan Thank you sir! But I couldn't find what you said for me to look into.

[1GlenAlan]

@1GlenAlan

Go on 'the Tube" and search for Big John Patton doing "The Way I Feel". I think you'll like this one! Let me know, okay?

[popsaka1]

...used to listen to this in the early 70's -warm summer California afternoons-

...this is the stuff, allright --thank you so much for uploading :-)

[myvette1211]

On this day, a great composer was born. Happy Birthday.

[sonofthegods2]

Who's playing trumpet on this recording?

[curtisalvin]

@sonofthegods2 Freddie hubbard

[saxophoneninja]

Oh man, I love Wayne Shorter. He has some of the best, most recognizable compositions in jazz, yet the changes and many other things about them are completely unconventional. great!

[debbiethewondersheep]

oh yes

[valvetrom]

Nice long tone in the opening bars, but coltranes playing and foghorn sound leaves me cold

[snuffrush]

i miss the 70s FM,before music was co-opted by the "market" , this music was routine then!!!

[dragmio]

@snuffrush You don't want the market to rule your life? Communist!!!

[DYNODRUM]

El ,Vin, Vintage, Vibe...

[blackandtanful]

SPEAK NO EVIL～ｲﾝﾄﾛのﾌﾞﾗｽﾊﾞｰｽで脳が刺激され､ｿﾛに入­ると魔界に!～不思議なソロ･音を創る才人ウェインショーター! #jazzm

[valvetrom]

The Painter Braque said , ART is not to entertain, its there to disurb.

Please don't disturb me any further.

[pretorious700]

this song reminds me of nights on the beach in southern Thailand. One of my favorite albums ever

[Blindbandit1171]

Hey Arnold! xD

[BobBurnnquist]

i'd put my jass in it

[ALTERED13TH]

Wayne Shorter is a great composer and performer. I think he is close to rivaling John Coltrane for compositional talent and I like him better as a performer. Plus he has more longevity.

[pideloo]

@ALTERED13TH Well, you're definitely right on the longevity.

[ALTERED13TH]

@ALTERED13TH Coltrane was a great musician but hardly prolific, profound or innovative as a composer. His innovation was his improvisational style. Shorter is certainly more prolific than Coltrane as a composer and a tremendous improviser. Most jazz compositions are not all that innovative in composition because they are so short. Mozart and 50 other classical composers were far more profound and innovative.  The idiom of jazz however as a whole is an innovative as any music on earth.

[clh2192]

@ALTERED13TH That's low-lol. How are you gonna take a point from Coltrane for dying. To each her or his own, but Trane was a force he had power and speed (Afro Blue, Chasing the Trane), storytelling (Alabama) and beauty (In a sentimental mood) hard to beat that unique combination. Plus 4.05 to the start of the trumpet solo is all Trane.

[ALTERED13TH]

@clh2192 You made a wrong inference from my remark about longevity. Longevity and prolificness and artistic maturity often all go hand in hand. Being prolific is also usually a sign of extreme creativity in addition to hard work. Coltrane was great but I believe Wayne Shorter rivals him for creative genius.

[sulimander]

@ALTERED13TH  yeah, Coltrane's dead

[edcerc]

@ALTERED13TH i like coltranes compositions but he is more of an improvisor than a composer. He had some classic compositions mostly because their were interesting to solo over. As he evolved he got more into motivic playing and focused more on freer improvisation. Even after the modal stuff he still kept pushing it.

[92ninersboy]

@ALTERED13TH I don't think that Coltrane (if he were here) would put himself anywhere in the same class as Shorter when it comes to being a composer. I love Shorter's tenor playing but Coltrane is the One who revolutionized tenor playing. They wre friends and practised together - both are great.

[DaveBassDotCom]

@ALTERED13TH - Uninformed comment. Shorter, Mingus, Monk, Ellington and a handful of others contributed to the compositional book of jazz on a very high level. As someone posted below, Coltrane wrote songs primarily based on their HARMONIC challenge, but these other composers wrote more balanced compositions - MELODICALLY, RHYTMICALLY and HARMONICALLY.

I suppose internet blogs give everyone a doctorate and 30 years of study to act like experts. Don't profess to know something you don't.

[wreyoG]

@ALTERED13TH yeah but Coltrane wrote so much great and VERSATILE stuff in such a short period...hats off to both composers either way :))

[ALTERED13TH]

@wreyoG Coltrane was an amazing composer and performer. I just tend to prefer Shorter especially his stuff from the 1960's like JuJu, Speak no Evil, Night Dreamer. He's more modern.

[wreyoG]

@ALTERED13TH i hear you :)

[groovydude222]

@ALTERED13TH He's a better composer, in my mind....but as a performer? Coltrane has him beat...by a lot.

[ALTERED13TH]

@groovydude222 Yeah, probably at least as concerns Coltrane's technical ability on the tenor.

[Eradicateify]

@ALTERED13TH

I personally think Wayne Shorter was a better composer than Coltrane. But I like Coltranes improv a lot more but thats just my take. I wish Bird, Coltrane and Shorter could've existed at the sametime though.

[ALTERED13TH]

@Eradicateify How cool would that have been. Coltrane was a great composer and improviser but my personal preference for both composition and improvising is Shorter. I like his tone a bit more and his lines are a bit more varied than Coltrane's. My favorite tenor player for the tone he got out of the instrument was Dexter Gordon.

[Eradicateify]

@ALTERED13TH

You should check out Mario Castro quintet, i heard them up at a cafe in Boston. Trumpeter reminds me of Freddie Hubbard and they played for Dexter Gordon's widow.

[ALTERED13TH]

@Eradicateify Thanks, I just checked out three vid of his on youtube. Great stuff!!!

[dasadopeboy]

pink floyd should have done a song with wayne....

[saketorasan]

WAYNE SHORTER／Speak No Evil

[Cornbreadhunter]

That's a very good attempt to explain this space... If you have to tell somebody why then what's the point. Like the old cliche "If you have to ask the price then you can't afford it."

[ImaniHekima]

The quintessential Blue Note track.

Then again, there are more than a few 'contenders'! ;-)

[Crapstars]

miam!

[bcsimmons2]

Omg.. I just bought the album because of this most definitely a hot album speak no evil #1 fe-fi-fo-fum #2 witch hunt 2.7 haha

[jnkyrdd0g]

@bcsimmons2 heh..i just done the same..bought this and Joe Henderson "Page One"...both are quality albums : )

[Skoll666]

favoloso

[wesm65]

love this

[Kaitano94]

0 dislikes. WOWW

[uhmfar]

There has never been anything cooler than the early to mid-sixties Blue Note recordings, from the music to the album covers. This was the seriously righteous shit.

[ImaniHekima]

@uhmfar Very well said....this was a great period for pure creativity.

[Gatorsfreak21]

this has to be tied with all of my favourite records. (i have like 100 favourtie jazz records)

[CesarAMartin]

Wow! Great! Is it the legendary and amazing Lee Morgan on trumpet in that georgeous tune?

[Mansiobass]

@CesarAMartin No. It is Freddie Hubbard. Herbie Hancock on Piano, Ron Carter on bass, Elvin Jones on drums + Wayne.

[CesarAMartin]

Thanks so much, man, anyway, Freddie is also outstanding as well. Greetings!

[william52648]

Listen...to what's being said

[hatesbostonredsox]

I like the part where Herbie kicks butt.

[aghoranathi]

Elvin is awesome, i dream of his skill as i play contra.

[stewbie59]

Nice jazz piece, Wayne Shorter's cool! And it does have a "detective show" feel to it.

[55mrj]

Elvin Jones swings!

[luvrealmusic48]

This comes across so fresh and crisp and cohesive. The snares are snaring like nobodys business. All solos are soulful and smart and with conviction.

[sfunkbanks]

please

my summer wishes

[Parvenu333]

This is my favorite jazz album, purely from a listener's perspective. It is perfect in almost every way.

[bobresurrection]

I like the part with the jazz in it!

[DaleCredico]

Blue Note ruled, no doubt.

Hey, thanks for the music!

[Jazzelegance]

Love this ! Dectevive movie feel ! Shorter is the greatest !

[anandanaga999]

It's amazing . Somewhere between the phrase, the time, and the overall melody

There is this place-and you can't get to it if you're not invited and at the door- some guy who looks like Hendrix or Cllifford Brown gives you the pasword. Then it's all abut Texture,color,  something warm somewhere either in the temples or the thighs

[kleyou]

@anandanaga999 poetry view

[UltraMagnus3786]

@anandanaga999 this has gotta be the best jazz comment i've seen on youtube.

[dasadopeboy]

@anandanaga999 well said... ; )

[soulfullyanointed]

Believe it not, on this disc Wayne is playing a vintage "Bundy" (essentially a Buescher "Aristocrat") tenor, not a Selmer Mark VI--the same horn that he played on most of his classic sides for Blue Note pressed in 1964.

[vastusinternus]

My first introduction to Wayne Shorter albums was with Night Dreamer. I was fascinated by it. But ever since I've listen to this album, not only has it blown me away completely, I've come to regard it as one of the best Jazz albums of all time. This one in particular is a fascinating track.

[cominbaby]

thanks giles peterson for playing this track. Amazing!

[Rufusdos]

@cominbaby Gilles is usually on the money ;-)

[aghoranathi]

I can play this on contra bass like the bomb and will make it famous before i die! Love him in the 60's SOOO much! Go Wayne!

[pretorious700]

@aghoranathi Uh, it's already famous to people who know jazz.

[aghoranathi]

@pretorious700 oh yeah, i meant i wish everyone would hear it, it is super.

[DugieGaloty]

wow! amazing piece..

[jassbo]

It's a real cool enviroment music, with a finest atonality aplication.

[claybornwilliams]

this is a great tune,and album.

[jazzlefty]

great changes!