Footprints is a jazz standard composed by Wayne Shorter, first appearing on his 1966 album Adam's Apple. Whilst in 6/4 metre, it is debatable whether it could be called a jazz waltz, since the feel could be divided into compound duple or simple triple time. Harmonically, it takes the form of a 12-bar C minor blues, but this is heavily masked not only by its triple time signature but by its avant garde turnaround (series of chords that return back to the main, or I chord). In the key of C minor, a normal turnaround would be Dm7(b5), G7, Cm7. But Shorter doubles the harmonic rhyt… read more
Footprints is a jazz standard composed by Wayne Shorter, first appearing on his 1966 album Adam's Apple. Whilst in 6/4 metre, it is debatable wh… read more
Footprints is a jazz standard composed by Wayne Shorter, first appearing on his 1966 album Adam's Apple. Whilst in 6/4 metre, it is debatable whether it could be called a jazz waltz… 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