One of the least good things of growing old is seeing these giants fall away.
There but for the grace of God, etc…
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Legend.
RIP
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RIP Mr. Shorter.
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RIP, one of the greatest in jazz
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So sad, speechless, but what a legacy.
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Yeah, I just heard to, sad news
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Very sad indeed that’s a great chunk of my music collection in memoriam.
Must be a great band up there now.
RIP Wayne.
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Yes I just heard heartbreaking even though he had a fabulous innings
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I wasn’t previously aware of it but apparently he had been unwell for some time. Last time I saw him must have been his last UK/Barbican appearance, back in 2015-ish I think.
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I’ve noticed an RIP thread started I wonder if Richard could perhaps move these posts from number 5999 onwards to that thread please.
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A unique voice in music. Thank you Wayne. RIP
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R.I.P One of the music world’s true Innovators whose music will live as long as there are music lovers to hear it.
Though of course he is most famous as a leader for Blue Note and as a member of Miles’ group I particularly enjoy his playing together with Lee Morgan on those early Vee Jay recordings.
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Night Dreamer will be played, (again), tonight. May he walk in peace.
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A giant. RIP Wayne Shorter
Saw him play twice with Weather Report, extraordinary one minute incendiary the next quiet lyrical and the interplay with Joe Zawinul was remarkable. And what a great writer too. Saw the Guardian called him “one of the greatest saxophone players of the Bebop era” One of?
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Very sad. The term legend is frequently rolled out when a musical great passes but in this case it certainly applies.
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Amazing contribution to music, RIP & thank you. In current rotation (Beyond The Sound Barrier):
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Wayne Shorter was without doubt a giant – but, without wishing to derail the thread, the above statement is just not true. It is universally acknowledged by jazz historians that the most significant player in the music is Louis Armstrong. Without him and his innovations of the 1920s (principally the improvised solo), there is no jazz as we understand it. Miles Davis himself acknowledged this, and one only has to listen to Satchmo’s Hot Fives and Sevens recordings to understand this. And as a virtuoso trumpet player, Armstrong is simply unmatched (even when he started to run out of puff in the 1960s).
As for the most significant composer, there is nobody to rival Duke Ellington, who wrote thousands of tunes, including more standards than anyone else. Duke’s invention, wit, ability to create colour and mood, as well as to push the boundaries of jazz, and to create miniature three-minute symphonies and suites vast in their scope, complexity and ambition, are completely without precedent in jazz. Duke is not only the greatest composer in jazz, he may well be the greatest American composer of the 20th century; and there is a case for him as the greatest 20th century composer, full stop.
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