Alegria

Wayne Shorter

SKU: LP43114

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180g Double Vinyl LP Album with Gatefold Cover, Insert & Obi
From the Original Master
Lacquer Cutting by SST Brüggemann GmbH in Germany
Pressing by Pallas GmbH in Germany
Cover Sleeve Printed & Made by Khiov in Korea

The ‘Play 33 1/3 LP Series’ is a 1st LP issue project of the masterpiece albums which have never been released on vinyl LP. The albums are released by Universal Music Korea and the heavyweight vinyl LP is pressed in Germany. Khiov designs the project, reforms the original artworks for the LP size and produces the sleeves precisely by handmade. You will have a chance to experience great analogue sounds and to enjoy splendid artworks through the series.

With 2002’s Footprints Live, nearly two decades of false alarms about a Wayne Shorter “comeback” finally gave way to the real thing — at least to many critics who welcomed his return to highly cerebral acoustic post-bop. Yet the follow-up, Alegria — apparently Shorter’s first all-acoustic studio album as a leader since 1967 — is where Shorter really starts to get creative again. The rhythm section from Footprints Live — pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade — is intact on three tracks. On others, Brad Mehldau — with his very different conception of sound — is the pianist, Terri Lyne Carrington subs on drums, Alex Acuna adds percussion, and new, unusual timbres are supplied by a wind/brass ensemble. As on Footprints Live, Shorter revisits some old tunes from his relative youth, but not nearly in the same way. In “Orbits,” which was given a racetrack post-bop run by the Miles Davis Quintet, Shorter slows it way, way down, virtually deconstructing the tune, backed by a quizzical chart for winds and brass. Likewise, “Angola” and “Capricorn II” are altered nearly beyond recognition. Indeed, at this point in the 21st century, it was fascinating to see both Shorter and his former Davis bandmate, Herbie Hancock, radically reinterpreting their past, working separately yet often using the same bassist and drummer (Patitucci and Blade) and recording for the same label. Yet, the core message of this album is that Shorter was ready to move on to different things, drawing material from almost anything that caught his attention while soloing in top form on tenor and soprano saxes. With a wild soprano wail, Shorter leads off the album with his new, absorbing boogaloo “Sacajawea,” one that soon morphs into searching, nearly free jazz, with a magisterial solo from the composer. At last, someone in jazz chose to deal with both tunes from Leroy Anderson’s Spanish-flavoured light classical masterpiece “Serenata” rather than just the lush second subject — and Shorter decorates them with a complex featherweight orchestration. Though Acuna’s bongos pop away in the foreground, Shorter does maintain the melancholy feeling of the familiar aria from Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5,” with cellist Charles Curtis eloquently stating the tune, until he destablizes things in the middle of the track. As he approached his 70th birthday, this disc seemed to confirm a long-awaited creative Indian summer for Wayne Shorter.

WAYNE SHORTER: tenor and soprano saxophones
DANILO PEREZ, BRAD MEHLDAU: piano
JOHN PATITUCCI: bass
BRIAN BLADE, TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON: drums
ALEX ACUÑA: percussion
With
LEW SOLOFF, CHRIS GEKKER, JEREMY PELT: trumpets
JIM PUGH, STEVE DAVIS, BRUCE EIDEM, PAPO VASQUEZ, MICHAEL BOSCHEN: trombones
CHRIS POTTER: bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
CHARLES CURTIS: solo cello
PAUL DUNKEL: flute
STEVEN TAYLOR: oboe
ALLEN BLUSTINE: clarinet, bass clarinet
FRANK MORELLI: bassoon
JOHN CLARK, STEWART ROSE: horns
MARCUS ROJAS: tuba

CREDITS
Produced by Robert Sadin
Executive Producer: Richard Seidel
Recorded by Clark Germain
Recorded at Avatar Studios, Cello Studios, Clinton Recording Studios, Sear Sound, Burning Kite Studio
Mixed by Robert Sadin and Dave Darlington
Additional Mix Engineers: Clark Germain, Todd Whitelock
Mixed at Sony Music Studios, Sorcerer Sound, Sear Sound
Mix Assistants: Mike Peters(Sony), Richard Kondas(Sorcerer), Steve Mazur(Sear)
Mastered at Sony Music Studios by Mark Wilder, Assisted by Seth Foster
Special Production Assistance: Dave Darlington, Clark Germain
Production Coordination: Marsha Black, Camille Tominaro
Audio Technical Consultants: Shane Koss, PK Pandey
Piano Courtesy of Steinway & Sons
Art Direction: Hollis King
Design: Sachico Asano
Photography: Kate Garner
Release Coordination: Theodora Kuslan and Kelly Pratt

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Track Listings

Side 1
1. Sacajawea 7:41
2. Serenata 6:07
Side 2
1. Vendiendo Alegría 7:00
2. Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 5:57
3. Angola 5:26

RECORD 2
Side 3
1. Interlude 1:50
2. She Moves Through The Fair 4:38
3. Orbits 6:07
Side 4
1. 12th Century Carol 6:02
2. Capricorn II 5:59

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