In 2000, three years short of entering his eighth decade on this planet—a place of origin which at times seemed questionable, though he made less fuss about it than Sun Ra—Wayne Shorter finally did ...

Listening to the Quartet can feel like cruising through space on Starship Shorter, watching an unfolding panorama of quasars, suns, star systems and new life-forms pass by. Or maybe being aboard one ...

“He always was a genius,” Herbie Hancock says of his friend and collaborator. Hear a sampling of that genius in these 13 tracks. By Marcus J. Moore This month we feature Wayne Shorter, the ...

I listened again to Miles Davis‘s album Nefertiti the other day. Like Davis’s album Water Babies, all the compositions were by saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Tracks like “Fall” are ambiguous and strange; ...