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Loading... Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter (2004)by Michelle Mercer
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A comprehensive and first-class biography that explores jazz saxophonist, composer and band leader Wayne Shorter’s life, music, and spirituality. Michelle Mercer weaves interviews – with Shorter, family, band members, and others – with musical analysis, reviews and other sources to create a tight story from his birth in Newark in 1933 to 2004, when the book was completed. no reviews | add a review
Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz. Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, and enriched by more than seventy-five original interviews with his friends and associates, this book is at once an invaluable history of music from bebop to pop, an intimate and moving biography, and a story of a man's struggle toward the full realization of his gifts and of himself. No library descriptions found. |
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I was very interested to learn about Wayne Shorter's life and how it relates to his music. He is a true original. ( )