Wayne Shorter Quartet
Sunday, May 5, 2013
WWOZ Jazz Tent, Fair Grounds
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
New Orleans, Louisiana

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01 - Introduction
02 - Instrumental 1
03 - Instrumental 2
04 - Instrumental 3
05 - Instrumental 4
06 - Instrumental 5


Line Up:
-Wayne Shorter - saxophones
-Danilo Perez - piano
-John Patitucci - bass
-Brian Blade - drums

Notes:
-- The show started at 4pm and ended roughly 5:25pm.

Review:
Wayne Shorter unveiled the future of American music at New Orleans Jazz Fest
2013 New Orleans Jazz Fest, Sunday May 5, 2013
Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on May 05, 2013 at 8:28 PM, updated May 06, 2013 at 12:03 AM

Wayne Shorter and his risk-taking quartet triumphed at New Orleans Jazz Fest on Sunday. And Shorter's
program revealed why his most recent CD is entitled "Without a Net."

This was abstract, meditative music full of shifting meters, dramatic pauses, and a wide-ranging dynamic
rarely heard outside opera houses. Built upon rhythmic shards and melodic fragments from Shorter's vast
and much honored compositional legacy, the music unfolded as a series of ever-evolving suites.

Shorter's band treated a standing-room, Jazz Tent crowd to simultaneous, four-way improvisations, in
which the rhythmic pulse and harmonic core were shared equally. This was true chamber music in which
the distinctions between soloist and rhythm section seemed utterly irrelevant.

Clearly, the 79-year-old saxophonist hasn't rested on his laurels, although his trademark sound on tenor
and soprano was much in evidence. Fans got to hear the blue notes, the wild intervals, the highly chromatic
harmonies, the reedy piping and bird calls that have come to define Shorter's style in the half century since
he left Art Blakey's band and began to work with Miles Davis. (Later, he co-founded Weather Report with
pianist Joe Zawinul).

These days, Shorter leads one of his greatest ensembles.

Buy a recording by each of his current band mates - pianist Danilo Perez, drummer Brian Blade and bassist
John Patitucci - and you'd have a good start on a contemporary jazz collection. And you'd also own a bit of
history. After 13 years on the road, Shorter's quartet is poised to take its place among the most fabled in
the improvising genre - from Louis Armstrong's Hot 5 to John Coltrane's pioneering quartet of the 1960s.

On Sunday, at Jazz Fest, Shorter and crew were already there.

Did you dig the drum music conjured by Brian Blade? The Louisiana native doesn't just keep time for Shorter.
He plays with time like a piece of elastic, stretching it to the far reaches of the galaxy, letting it twang
and reverberate before snapping back with a 4/4 downbeat. And Blade is Mr. Color, too: keeping ears refreshed
with a sonic palette that embraces woody rattling on the rims, tom-tom rolls, metallic tolling, whale cries
and traditional parade figures pulled from his snare.

Blade can take such liberties because Patitucci's bass provides the hip-swaying center most of the time.

And what about Perez? On Sunday, the pianist offered glimpses of his virtuoso Latin soul - the flickering
runs, hypnotic ostinatos and crashing octaves - but even the flashiest stuff served to underscore the mood
and meaning of the music. Perez dared to be simple, showing the higher virtuosity of a listening musician,
one who understands that a single, well placed note is often worth more than the fast and furious surface
effects of less seasoned musicians.

At times, Perez resembled the conductor of the band, signaling tempo and meter changes, and prodding with
dissonant interjections. He made me think of Ellington and Basie - and not because he mimics their swing
styles, but because he, too, has stripped away the keyboard fireworks in order to serve the music.

What a concept: surrender your ego and win everything. I guess that jibes with Shorter's Buddhist faith.
But on Saturday, it also looked like the next wave of jazz innovation.

Stay tuned.

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