{"product_id":"wayne-shorter-speak-no-evil","title":"Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil - Blue Note Essential Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn his third date for Blue Note within a year, \u003cstrong\u003eWayne Shorter\u003c\/strong\u003e changed the bands that played on both \u003cem\u003eNight Dreamer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJuju\u003c\/em\u003e and came up with not only another winner, but also managed to give critics and jazz fans a different look at him as a saxophonist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause of his previous associations with \u003cstrong\u003eMcCoy Tyner\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eElvin Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eReggie Workman\u003c\/strong\u003e on those recordings, Shorter had been unfairly branded with the \"just-another-Coltrane-disciple\" tag, despite his highly original and unusual compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, with only Jones remaining and his bandmates from the \u003cstrong\u003eMiles Davis Quintet\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHerbie Hancock\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eRon Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e on board (with \u003cstrong\u003eFreddie Hubbard\u003c\/strong\u003e filling out the horn section), Shorter at last came into his own and caused a major reappraisal of his earlier work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe odd harmonic frameworks used to erect \"Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum,\" with its balladic structure augmented with a bluesy regimen of hard bop and open-toned modalism, create the illusion of a much larger band managing all that timbral space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLikewise on the title track, with its post-bop-oriented melodic line strewn across a wide chromatic palette of minors and Hancock's piano pushing through a contrapuntal set of semi-quavers, the avant-garde meets the hard bop of the '50s head on and everybody wins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe loping lyric of the horns and Hancock's vamping in the middle section during Shorter's solo reveals a broad sense of humor in the saxophonist's linguistics and a deep, more regimented sense of time and thematic coloration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set ends with the beautiful \"Wild Flower,\" a lilting ballad with angular accents by Hancock who takes the lyric and inverts it, finding a chromatic counterpoint that segues into the front line instead of playing in opposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe swing is gentle but pronounced and full of Shorter's singular lyricism as a saxophonist as well as a composer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A Slice Of Vinyl ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58795617943926,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0903\/2872\/7926\/files\/Speak_No_Evil_fa163892_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1790085191","url":"https:\/\/asliceofvinyl.co.uk\/products\/wayne-shorter-speak-no-evil","provider":"A Slice Of Vinyl ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}