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Wayne Shorter, 82, is widely acknowledged as of jazz's most important composers, as well as one of its premier saxophonists. He's also one of its most original thinkers, whose inspirations can be short as one sentence or as broad as a musing about the nature of the universe. Jazz Night In America visits Shorter at his home in Los Angeles to talk with him about where his ideas come from. And we catch him as a featured soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a special career-spanning concert where band members devised special arrangements of his tunes.
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3:18 - “Yes Or No”
14:14 - How Wayne deals with his own success
17:07 - “Contemplation”
24:14 - What it was like to arrange Wayne's tunes
26:24 - “Endangered Species”
Recorded May 16, 2015 @ Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
MUSICIANS
Wayne Shorter (tenor and soprano saxophone), Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Walter Blanding (saxophone), Chris Crenshaw (trombone), Vincent Gardner (trombone), Victor Goines (saxophone), Carlos Henriquez (bass), Sherman Irby (saxophone), Ali Jackson (drums), Ryan Kisor (trumpet), Elliot Mason (trombone), Ted Nash (saxophone), Paul Nedzela (baritone saxophone), Dan Nimmer (piano), Marcus Printup (trumpet), Kenny Rampton (trumpet)
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