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CD Speak No Evil -Remaster

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  • Issued : 23 Mar 1999

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Genre : Jazz Catalogue Number : 4990012
Format : CD Label : Blue Note
Issued : 23 Mar 1999 Item sourced from : International
Original Release Year : 1964   
Number of Discs : 1

Speak No Evil -Remaster

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On his third date for Blue Note within a year, Wayne Shorter changed the bands that played on both Night Dreamer and Juju and came up with not only another winner, but also managed to give critics and jazz fans a different look at him as a saxophonist. Because of his previous associations with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Reggie Workman on those recordings, Shorter had been unfairly branded with the just-another-Coltrane-disciple tag, despite his highly original and unusual compositions. Here, with only Jones remaining and his bandmates from the Miles Davis Quintet, Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter on board (with Freddie Hubbard filling out the horn section), Shorter at last came into his own and caused a major reappraisal of his earlier work. The odd harmonic frameworks used to erect Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, with its balladic structure augmented with a bluesy regimen of hard bop and open-toned modalism, create the illusion of a much larger band managing all that timbral space. Likewise on the title track, with its post-bop-oriented melodic line strewn across a wide chromatic palette of minors and Hancock's piano pushing through a contrapuntal set of semi-quavers, the avant-garde meets the hard bop of the '50s head on and everybody wins. The loping lyric of the horns and Hancock's vamping in the middle section during Shorter's solo reveals a broad sense of humor in the saxophonist's linguistics and a deep, more regimented sense of time and thematic coloration. The set ends with the beautiful Wild Flower, a lilting ballad with angular accents by Hancock who takes the lyric and inverts it, finding a chromatic counterpoint that segues into the front line instead of playing in opposition. The swing is gentle but pronounced and full of Shorter's singular lyricism as a saxophonist as well as a composer. [The CD reissue adds a fine alternate take of Dance Cadaverous.] ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

Credits

Elvin Jones(Drums),  Freddie Hubbard(Trumpet),  Herbie Hancock(Piano),  Ron Carter(Bass),  Wayne Shorter(Sax (Tenor)),  Alfred Lion(Producer),  Rudy Van Gelder(Engineer),  Don Heckman(Liner Notes),  Francis Wolff(Photography),  Reid Miles(Design),  Reid Miles(Photography),  Wayne Shorter(Composer),  Ron McMaster(Digital Transfers)

Songs

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    1
    Witch Hunt
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    2
    Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
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    3
    Dance Cadaverous
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    4
    Speak No Evil
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    5
    Infant Eyes
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    6
    Wild Flower

Bonus Track

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    7
    Dance Cadaverous (Alternate Take)

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  • ★★★★★ 

    モンド  |  神奈川県  |  不明  |  26/March/2010

    ほぼ同時期にブルーノートに録音されたハンコックの処女航海と重複するメンバーが多いが、雰囲気はかなり違う。infant eyesのような美メロを書く一方で、footprintsやnefertitiをマイルスに提供するあたりにショーターのコンポーザーとしての力量の大きさを感じます。

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    Hardbop-Gardener  |  北海道  |  30year  |  03/July/2009

    ジャケットの悪さからずっと買わないできた作品。ジャケットは悪いけど、中身はまずまず。僕は4ビートばかり中心に聴いていますが、たまにはモード系のクールなサウンドも耳に心地よいものです。こればかり聴くと飽きそうではありますが・・・。全曲ショーターの曲でがっちりと固められているため、アルバムとしてしっかりまとまっており、ショーターの作曲・アレンジ能力、演奏能力を満喫できるアルバムに仕上がっています。メンバーも一流どころばかりで、好演しています。 ショーター・ワールドへようこそ!

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    Bean  |  Sapporo  |  不明  |  26/February/2008

    ほどよい緊張感。私のようにジャズを知らなくとも、初めて聞いたその場でスタイリッシュ感を味わえます。

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