PostGenreCheck out our very special conversation from this summer’s Newport Jazz Festival with Danilo Pérez and John Patitucci on Wayne Shorter. Blue Note Records will be releasing quartet live recording ‘Celebration, Volume 1’ on 8/23/24
“There’s nothing wasted here. In terms of music, he taught expansion.” - Danilo Pérez
“Wayne’s music was always deep, but the melodies were haunting. They stay with you forever.” - John Patitucci
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Laboratory: A Conversation with Danilo Pérez and John Patitucci on the Legacy of Wayne Shorter - PostGenre
There is a tendency to mythologize someone like Wayne Shorter, who seems larger than life. Or to put the subject on a pedestal with the label “great” without providing a sufficient and accurate discussion of why they truly are so. It becomes all too easy for people with little understanding of the facts to jump