Uploaded by postmeback on Nov 1, 2010
Alan Shorter - flugelhorn
Gato Barbieri - tenor sax
Reggie Johnson - bass
Rashied Ali - drums
Recorded September 23rd 1968 at A&R Recording, New York City.
Definitely not your typical free jazz blowing session: Shorter, brother of Wayne, favours long, winding, repeating compositional material that only gradually gave way to solo improvising. This is very much group music, less about displaying technical prowess, more about creating a particular atmosphere and contributing to it throughout. Some critics have compared the album to Ornette Coleman's early work, mainly due to the absence of piano, but it possesses a slowed-down, spaced-out and sinister vibe that is very much unique to Shorter, and very different from Ornette's more ebullient approach. Listen out for a typically wild and woolly Gato Barbieri solo (this when he was in his free jazz phase) - Barbieri generates a kind of intensity few could match (though British tenorman Gary Windo has a go on the title cut of Shorter's only other album as a leader, 'Tes Esat').
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From the little I've heard of his compositions, the elder Shorter posseses a compositional talent as interesting and as profound as his kid brother! I read a quote by Amiri Baraka that in New Jersey when they were young, they were known as 'the weird Shorter brothers'.
Thanks for the upload!
jibsmokestack1 9 months ago
introducing wayne shorters alter ego alan shorter!!
blackvitruvianman 1 year ago
Loving it...thanks for posting this. More please
tonyfreejazz20 1 year ago