Without a Net (Wayne Shorter album)
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| Studio album by Wayne Shorter | ||||
| Released | 5 February 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 8 December 2010 | |||
| Studio | Walt Disney Concert Hall ("Pegasus" only) | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 1:17:22 | |||
| Label | Blue Note 509999 79516 2 9 | |||
| Producer | Wayne Shorter | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 86/100 |
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Without a Net is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter together with Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade. The album was released on 5 February 2013 via Blue Note to a critical success, receiving an average score of 86/100 from 11 reviewers on Metacritic, which indicates "universal acclaim".
Without a Net is Shorter’s first album for Blue Note Records in 43 years after Odyssey of Iska released in 1971. The album contains eight quartet tracks from its European tour in late 2011, including six original compositions, plus a 23-minute centrepiece "Pegasus" supported by the woodwind and brass ensemble Imani Winds. The composition "Orbits" is a new version of the Miles Davis Quintet’s 1967 song of the same name. For "Orbits" the album won 2014 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo. The quartet also included the title song from the 1933 musical film Flying Down To Rio.
Will Layman of PopMatters wrote "Wayner Shorter and his quartet are not just a good or great jazz group, they are a single voice of one the best American musicians we’ve had in the last 50 years. This is a musician who is far from in his valedictory years. Wayne Shorter seems, only now, to be saying all that has had to say. And Without a Net out to get a superb listening. It’s the shape of where jazz has been and where it is today."
Chris Barton of The Los Angeles Times stated "the album is a sprawling, relentlessly inventive listen that nods toward Shorter’s rich legacy as a true musical giant, even while pointing toward an undeniable truth that, even at 80 years old, he isn’t finished exploring yet."
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