Wayne Shorter - The Classic Blue Note Recordings: Wayne Shorter (2002)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Black Nile
02. Yes Or No
03. Speak No Evil
04. Infant Eyes
05. Witch Hunt
06. Angola
07. Etcetera
08. Adam's Apple
09. Footprints
10. Tom Thumb
11. Super Nova
12. Calm

CD2
01. The Chess Players
02. Lester Left Town
03. Ping Pong
04. United
05. Marie Antoinette
06. Children Of The Night
07. Contemplation
08. Rio
09. Limbo (Live At Montreux Jazz Festival / 1986)
10. Nefertiti

While this isn't the only Wayne Shorter Blue Note collection, it is the best. The Best of Wayne Shorter, which was released in 1998 within a series of other Blue Note best-ofs that were coming out at the time, is adequate, but with only one disc it's hard to cover any ground with a guy who's recorded around a dozen top-notch records as a leader for Blue Note, and then appeared on scores of others - and that's where this collection wins. The second disc consists of appearances he made alongside such greats as Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard. Perhaps a Blue Note Wayne Shorter box set is in order? At any rate, "Speak No Evil," "Footprints," "Witch Hunt," and "Nefertiti" prove to highlight Wayne Shorter's astounding career and in turn show off jazz composition in general - as Shorter stands as the one of the genre's best songwriters. Recommended as a springboard into the full-length discs these tracks are culled from, The Classic Blue Note Recordings of Wayne Shorter hits the mark.

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