NPR Music ne face o surpriză frumoasă: cel mai recent album Wayne Shorter la streaming. Enjoy!

Wayne Shorter, who turns 80 this year, is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. He would merit that praise based on the first 40-odd years of his career alone, when he was playing in and writing for groups led by Art Blakey and Miles Davis, and making canonical studio albums under his own name. The next few decades were more controversial; suffice it to say that he embraced electric instruments wholeheartedly, and not all of his fans agreed with that. But for the last dozen years and change, he’s been performing with a band which put the jazz world on notice: Wayne Shorter is back — or, more precisely, he never really left.

What sort of band makes a living legend more legendary? For one, it’s an acoustic quartet, returning Shorter’s saxophones to the classic sounds of hammer, pluck and thwack. It also features three younger musicians at the top of their respective fields (pianist Danílo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade), whose immense skill allows them to participate in an unusually high-level conceit.

Restul, aici.