Footprints Live! is a live album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter recorded on July 14–24, 2001 and released on Verve Records in 2002. It was Shorter's first official live album released under his own name and the first album to feature the 'Footprints Quartet' of Shorter, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade. For decades it seemed that Wayne Shorter had lost interest in acoustic jazz. But a 1998 Lincoln Center performance hinted at his continued stake in the idiom, and a few years later, in 2001, he thrilled the jazz community by embarking on a whirlwind tour with… read more
Footprints Live! is a live album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter recorded on July 14–24, 2001 and released on Verve Records in 2002. It was Shorter'… read more
Footprints Live! is a live album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter recorded on July 14–24, 2001 and released on Verve Records in 2002. It was Shorter's first official live album released… read more
Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader. Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Newark Arts High School. He was encouraged by his father to take up the saxophone as a teenager (his brother Alan became a trumpeter). Aft… read more
Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer f… read more
Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the … read more