Jazz album of the month: Wayne Shorter: Emanon review – vivid and sublimely thrilling

Blue NoteIn his youth, saxophonist Wayne Shorter used to travel with his trumpeter brother, Alan, carrying instrument cases labelled Mr Weird and Mr Strange. Even then, the clues to his idiosyncratic art were already showing. The now 85-year-old Newark-born improviser/composer has since drawn on many sources – collaborations with Art Blakey and Miles Davis, devotion to Sonny Rollins, Buddhism, classical music, sci-fi, and much more – to sustain a career as a creative giant of jazz ...

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