At 85, Shorter Soars With Epic Musical/Literary Mashup Emanon
Wayne Shorter
Emanon
(Blue Note)
A Record Reflection by A. Scott Galloway
August 25, 2018 marked the 85th birthday of one of contemporary music’s finest composer/musicians, Wayne Shorter. In an astounding career that has seen him ascend from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the second classic Miles Davis Quintet to co-founding Weather Report, all the while composing jazz immortals such as “Footprints,” “Speak No Evil” and Nefertiti” (to name just a few),…