Endangered Species - Wayne Shoter (Montreux 1996)

[mancmuso1]

Kick ass playing!

[icecreamforcrowhurst]

woaw, Keith Jarrett on guitar!

[MrLb0377]

This is my first time hearing this. Incredible peice! This drummer plays like a man possessed. Wayne Shorter is one of the most underrated musicians ever...which is unfortunate. He's a genuis!

[MrLb0377]

This is my first time hearing this. Incredible peice! This drummer plays like a man possessed. Wayne Shorter is on of themost underrated musicians ever...which unfortunate. He's a genuis!

[nulyak13]

Throw this on Guitar Hero :P

[SlikkTim]

Alphonso Johnson & David Gilmore are the tightest muthaphuckaz on this one. Great, great composition.

[AliothSenator]

This song is imposible.Impoposible.IMPOPOPO­SIBLE to play!!!

[SlikkTim]

@AliothSenator not to brag bro, but check my latest vid I did the bassline to this :-)

[FCntertainr]

This was the only total 'electronic ' piece on Atlantis and is a great composition! Larry Klein played electric bass but piano was acoustic and voices were eerie and beautiful. The last Silk hat and When You Dream were gems. Shere Khan the tiger! Wayne is a mastermagician composer, musician who always chose to sing.- FC

[akitaman1988]

awesome comp. Listened to this back in the Eighties...often.

[unclejunglebass]

haha endangered "spicies"

pretty much everywhere, its gonna be hot.

[DrummerBoyOmar]

Rodney Holmes is the jizz!

[sicklefudge]

Rodney Holmes killin' all up in that bitch!

[jax1moi8]

I first saw (and heard) this played at the Newport Jazz Festival on tv. It was mesmerizing. And this is a great performance of this amazing piece.

[squanck]

Happy Birthday Mr. Shorter!!

[Flextones]

I have to admit I have not paid much attention to Wayne Shorter after his Weather Report period. I am impressed. He is a survivor. He outlived Grover Washington Jr who brought us all of that mess.

[dadelhomme]

Wayne is one of The World's Greatest Treasures.

[jameslanni]

That last note, that last phrase, oh man the whole thing. The under 50 y/o jazzers have butchered Wayne's 60's compositions so incessantly, so crushingly, boringly often, but I think when they (finally) get to the WR and '85 to '95 stuff, the more detailed road map will lead to much more good music.

[pemalodron]

This is music for different people. Those regular will not attend or understand it! Just awesome!

[scififool]

Just excellent! Thanks for sharing! One of my new favorites

[blablaAcount]

Rodney Holmes kills it! Great music! =)

[FlowJazz]

what a line up !!! Crazy !! One of Wayne Shorter's best compositions IMO.

[dstol62]

I saw Wayne perform this on this tour and also with another band in 1985 after the release of "Atlantis". Although there are many who have dismissed this period as Wayne's "lost fusion period", history will be not as harsh a critic. The fact is, he wrote some of his most interesting music between 1985-95...

[fukuokadonax]

I agree. Songs from "Atlantis" to "Highlife" are the best, I think.

[Talcupp]

Atlantis and the other albums from this period had a great, wide-open feel with lots of room for Shorter's horn at a time that was years past Weather Report's prime. What's interesting is how tightly composed this music was--none of this "we're all soloing all the time" that Zawinul espoused early in the WR years (hey, it worked for several albums!).

[KwameJawanzaa]

Yeah, bro. I agree 100% as the Atlantis LP was Wayne's first solo recording as a leader since Native Dancer. I also saw him perform this in 1985 with a different line up with one of Chick Corea's drummers in the band. In 1986 He did this tune at the Blue Note in NYC with Alphonso Johnson, Jim Beard and Kenwood Denard. The Three Marias is my favorite.

[FaaarLeft]

DAMN!!

[Thadrummer]

This sounds a little faster than the original version Ive heard, but i like it! It kicks butt!! I have always liked this song, playing drums with this is challenging and fun. The bass lines are pretty challenging too.

[musicoschidos]

GREAT VERSION!

[BOTTOM432]

wow killer!!!!!!!!!!!

[fukuokadonax]

Mistaken... Thanks!

[jameslanni]

(sp) David Gilmore. Thank you for putting this up. I can't stop wondering when the young dudes will find this feel. Maybe they would have to play this song?

ALPHONSO!

[jax1moi8]

Wow. Thanks for putting this up. It's a great performance. Some of the phrases he improvs here are really cool. And it's closer to the album version than some of the later ones. Anyway, the composition itself is a masterpiece.