Wayne Shorter/Phronesis – review

Barbican, LondonThere was plenty of sheet music around for the Wayne Shorter Quartet's first London gig in more than three years, but this unique jazz group's thrilling show mostly sounded like free improvisation just the same. In the 78-year-old Shorter's world, things are rarely as they seem. Written fragments as tight as haikus swell into freefall improv jams, veer spontaneously in and out of his poignant compositions (he's written some of the classic jazz themes of the past half-century), or...

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