Black Nile, by Wayne Shorter

Onwards with my Wayne Shorter obsession, I give you 'Black Nile' from the 1964 album Night Dreamer.
It is amazing that 44 years later Wayne is still making cutting edge music.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Black
• Nile
• Wayne
• Shorter
• David
• Beebee
• Beeboss
• piano
• jazz
• solo

[Edfireman1]

Power and swing, love it

[davebeeboss]

thanks ed

[TheZeldaNerd]

K could I ask you a question?

First of all thats a KILLER vid

second of all, what did you do at that lick at about 3:09 that just sounds kind of "out" but not wrong? Like, what notes did you play over what chords to get that sound?

[davebeeboss]

Thanks for your comments.

At 3.09 thats probably some altered dominant - key is D minor so dominant chord is A7 with probably sharp 5 b9, and over it goes a Eb9 arpeggio pattern, tritone substitution in action.

Hope that helps.

[TheShecman]

tight



[ProfessorMeat]

dude you tear this song APART! so good!

[TheSirvaliant]

Wow, i know i'm 3 years late in responding to this, but this is really a great performance of and improvisation on Wayne Shorter's Black Nile. Only criticism i could come up with is that it lacks some calmer moments, but otherwise it's great jazz.

It sounds way better on piano by the way than any brass band. At least, that's my opinion.

[thecatified]

U are sooo GOOD. it made me cry

[assholeHimself]

great drive!

[Maryrichard]

One of my favourite songs of all time, and a fantastic version, thank you! Check out the Black Nile video from my uploads if you wish, where I'm playing it alongside one of my jazz piano pupils at school, in a version I transcribed of Kenny Kirkland's wonderful solo. Only goes so far, as it's sight-reading, but we love it!

[deliriyDeAnt]

Fabulous Shorter and fabulous pianist!

[tjc197]

BEAST.

[sandrovaro]

yeaa man. it's reay cool!!! realy realy good!!!