Wayne Shorter - JuJu
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Artist: Wayne ShorterBrand: Wayne
Edition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Juju
- Deluge
- House of Jade
- Mahjong
- Yes or No
- Twelve More Bars to Go
- Juju [Alternate Take][*]
- House of Jade [Alternate Take][*]
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Free Music Review: One of the Greatest Jazz Composers
Hit: 5 Stars
I knew that Wayne Shorter was a good saxophonist from his work on albums by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and Lee Morgan that I had already heard. But it was only when I purchased "JuJu" and "Speak No Evil" that I realized what a great jazz composer he is. Shorter had written some good tunes on some of the Blakey and Morgan albums, but they didn't necessarily stand out as any better or worse than the other tunes. But hearing the dozen highly original and distinctive compositions on these two great albums from 1964 allowed me to grasp his true talent. Perhaps Shorter had been prevented from reaching his full potential as a composer when he had to write tunes to satisfy someone other than himself.
Every tune on "JuJu" is musically interesting and communicates deep-felt emotion; however, what makes Shorter so great is that these tunes exhibit lots of variety in their melodies, harmonies, and moods. The title track is full of primordial anxiety, evoking primitive mysteries. "Deluge" is also dark, but in a film noire fashion. "House of Jade" is sad and lonely. "Mahjong" suggests fierce determination to win some contest. "Yes or No" alternates hope and hopelessness. Finally, "Twelve More Bars to Go" is wistful but with a sense of humor.
Of course, Shorter and his band mates all play these compositions with great finesse and imagination. The solos of Shorter and pianist McCoy Tyner remain inventive from beginning to end.
JuJu Poster
Japanese Release featuring 24 Bit Remastering and LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.When Wayne Shorter recorded this date in 1964, he was asserting his own voice as both a saxophonist and a composer after his years with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He's joined here by pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones, essential parts of the then dominant John Coltrane Quartet, but Juju serves to emphasize what was distinctive in Shorter's approach as well as the similarities. Though he shared something of Coltrane's twisting line and hard sound, Shorter was far more interested in crafting conventional compositions, and there's a range of everyday emotions to be felt in this music that went untouched in Coltrane's more intense work. Shorter's a master of tension and release, using contrasting elements in a piece, mixing major and minor, consonance and dissonance, and different rhythms to evoke complex moods of doubt and playfulness or constraint and joyous swing. Those structures are a happy fit with Tyner and Jones as well, who can bring their characteristic welling intensity to "Juju," a relaxed bounce to "Yes or No," or a subtle oriental emphasis to "House of Jade." --Stuart Broomer
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