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| 1. | Children Of The Night
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| 2. | At The Fair
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| 3. | Maya
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| 4. | On The Milky Way Express
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| 5. | Pandora Awakened
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| 6. | Virgo Rising
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| 7. | High Life
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| 8. | Midnight In Carlotta's Hair
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| 9. | Black Swan (In Memory Of Susan Portlynn Romeo)
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* HIGH LIFE won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance
* "Midnight In Carlotta's Hair" was nominated for a 1997 Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition
* Wayne Shorter's arrangement of "Children Of The Night" was nominated for Best Instrumental Arrangement
Jazz
Principally recorded at Schnee Studio, North Hollywood, California.
Wayne Shorter (arranger, soprano, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Marcus Miller (conductor, bass clarinet, bass, programming); Jon Lewis, Rob McGregor (trumpet); Steven Holtman, Robert Payne (trombone); Daniel Kelley, Joseph Meyer, Brad Warnaar (French horn); Linda Muggeridge, Leslie Reed (English horn); Kazue McGregor, Annarenee Grizell, Sarah Weisz (flute); Joyce Kelley-Clark (oboe); Emily Bernstein, Ralph Williams (clarinet); Julie Feves, Michele Grego (contrabassoon); Bruce Dukov, Armen Garabedian, Suzie Katayama, Edith Markman, Sid Page, Michele Richards (violin); Robert Becker, Denyse Buffum, Ralph Fielding, Harry Shirinian, Evan Wilson (viola); Larry Corbett (cello); Rachel Z (piano, synthesizer); David Gilmore (guitar); Will Calhoun, Terry Lyne Carrington (drums); Lenny Castro, Airto Moreira, Munyungo Jackson, Kevin Ricard (percussion)
No saxophonist--with the exception of Sonny Rollins--inspires quite the same level of expectation and adulation as Wayne Shorter. From his seminal days with Art Blakey and Miles Davis, he set new standards for improvisational freedom, even as he developed a singular compositional signature. And as a founding father of Weather Report, he continued to distill his solo skills, while developing a more elaborate orchestral approach.
Seven years after his last solo project, Wayne Shorter returns with HIGH LIFE, which proceeds from the point where ATLANTIS, PHANTOM NAVIGATOR and JOY RIDER left off. With the assistance of master bassist-producer Marcus Miller and keyboardist Rachel Z., Shorter has fashioned a sumptuous series of harmonically detailed tone poems, anchored by the contemporary rhythm-n-ning of former Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun.
Based on HIGH LIFE, one can dismiss conjecture about how Shorter was overwhelmed by Joe Zawinul's orchestral vision within Weather Report--Wayne clearly has more than bebop on his mind. Each of these arrangements is elaborately detailed, such as "At The Fair," with its fanciful multi-tracked saxophone variations over a luminous calliope of keyboard colors and brassy big band chords. "Pandora Awakened" features a string section and a dizzying variety of contrasting melodic and harmonic cycles, as keyboard and rhythmic sequences circle and pirouette around each other in an elaborate musical dance. Elsewhere, the shifting chordal blocks and songlike soprano of "Maya" are reminiscent of his middle period Weather Report. "Moonlight In Carlotta's Hair" is a charming Spanish dance, and the title tune features Shorter's multi-layered sax sections over an impressionistic backdrop. |
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