Wayne Shorter Weather Report (S3 | E127)

We start with McCoy Tyner’s Peresina – an elaborate jazz piece that shows off so much of Wayne Shorter’s performance genius. Then we move to three versions of Fall, hear three songs from Wayne Shorter Weather Report’s first record, and then conclude with three renditions of the great track Green Dolphin Street. Yeah man!

This is the third of three shows devoted to the great Wayne Shorter.

Words from the jazz great, David Kikoski.

Wayne was a truly spiritual guy.

Dave Kikoski

Wayne Shorter Weather Report (S3 | E127)

Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He recorded more than 20 albums as a bandleader.

Many Shorter compositions have become jazz standards, and his music has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise, and commendation. Shorter won 12 Grammy Awards. He was acclaimed for his mastery of the soprano saxophone since switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s and beginning an extended reign in 1970 as DownBeat‘s annual poll-winner on that instrument, winning the critics’ poll for 10 consecutive years and the readers’ for 18. The New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff described Shorter in 2008 as “probably jazz’s greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser”. In 2017, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize.

Wayne Shorter Weather Report Show Playlist

Track	Artist	Album	Year
Peresina	McCoy Tyner	Expansions	1969
Fall	Miles Davis	Nefertiti	1971
Fall	Wayne Shorter	Summer Breeze	2016
Fall	Terence Blanchard	Absence	2021
Teen Town	Weather Report	Heavy Weather	1977
A Remark You Made	Weather Report	Heavy Weather	1977
Birdland	Weather Report	Heavy Weather	1977
On Green Dolphin Street	Miles Davis	At Plugged Nickel, Chicago	1995
On Green Dolphin Street	George Shearing, Nancy Wilson	The Swingin’s Mutual	1961
On Green Dolphin Street	Vince Guaraldi	In Person	1963

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Wayne Shorter Weather Report Show

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