A pioneer since the fifties, and someone who has been leaving his mark on modern music for six decades, saxophonist Wayne Shorter defies comparison. The list of his accomplishments is almost preposterously long: jamming with Horace Silver, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, founding Weather Report, releasing great solo albums like Speak No Evil and winning no fewer than nine Grammy Awards. Since 2001 he has been performing with his own quartet, consisting of younger but equally well-established artists: Danilo Pérez, one of the most influential pianists of the past decades; John Patitucci, who has played at the musical top in various genres for some thirty years now; and Brian Blade, the multitalented drummer from Louisiana who plays with Bob Dylan just as comfortably as with Joshua Redman. Each a fabulous musician in their own right, but all the more so when conducted by sensitive grandmaster Shorter.
