Adam's Apple (album)
Occupation
- Tenor Saxophone: Wayne Shorter
- Piano: Herbie Hancock
- Bass: Reggie Workman
- Drums: Joe Chambers
Adam's Apple is a jazz album by Wayne Shorter, which was taken on 2 and 24 February 1966 at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and released by Blue Note Records. A remastered CD edition with a previously unreleased track was made in 2003.
The album
The studio album Adam's Apple was after shooting in October 1965 for the LP The All Seeing Eye, the seventh recording session of the tenor saxophonists of his own for Alfred Lion's label. As in JuJu ( August 1964 ) and Et Cetera (June 1965) brought Shorter no other wind instruments added. The rhythm section formed here Herbie Hancock ( piano ), Reggie Workman (bass) and Joe Chambers ( drums), all of whom had already participated in previous sessions.
Except for a processing of Jimmy Rowles ' Title " 502 Blues ( Drinkin 'and Drivin ') ", the musicians played a five original compositions Wayne Shorter; which also formed during the session Hancock composition " The Collector " was on the original LP (BLP 4232) no recording.
The title song " Adam 's Apple ", the quartet in the popular style of soul jazz; Don Heckman pointed to the expansion of the Blue scheme by the combination of jazz and modern dance music down; [ Heckman 1], the critic sees references to the then-popular Lee Morgan entitled " The Sidewinder ". He also points out that in the soul-jazz idiom similar, resulting in month earlier piece " Tom Thumb ", the Shorter recorded with Bobby Timmons again in 1967 for Prestige, and on his album Schizophrenia.
This is followed by the ballad " 502 Blues ( Drinkin 'and Drivin ') " of the pianist Jimmy Rowles endorses, the Shorter greatly admired. [ Blumenthal 1] Don Heckman pointed out in the original liner notes in particular the impressive performance of Herbie Hancock and Joe Chambers' down. [ Heckman 1] the following is a bossa nova composition Shorter, but the surprises with unexpected chord changes. Models sees Bob Blumenthal in Tom Jobim's title " Sabia ". [ Blumenthal 1]
This is followed by the well -known compositions Shorter joins, the first recording of "Footprints" in medium - pace, which he shortly afterwards also record with the Miles Davis Quintet Miles Smiles in a slightly different form and at the in strongly forciertem pace live repertoire of the Davis band should belong in 1967. The following is the second ballad " Teru "; Shorter's tune similar lines are accompanied by Hancock's chord figures. [ Heckman 1]
The last piece of the original LP, " Chief Crazy Horse ", in familiar 32taktiger AABA devoted to the Shorter, whom he admired John Coltrane. At the last Blue Note session, where all the titles created (except for the title track ), a version of Hancock composition " The Collector " was recorded; a version of the title was with Miles Davis in 1968 under the title " Teo 's Bag ". Bob Blumenthal emphasizes " open form" of the Shorter / Hancock version compared to more conventional drafting by the Davis band out. [ Blumenthal 1]
Album Review
In Allmusic, which gave the album the highest rating, Stacia Proefrock admitted that with the exception of the composition " Footprints", which has become a jazz standard, Adam's Apple is not the attention was given to become like the previous albums from Wayne Shorter's catalog. This is a shame because she was one of the best in its publications of this incredibly fertile period. By itself, was Adam 's Apple is one of the great works in the jazz of the mid -1960s; Shorter have here developed a unique style, compositional class and a perfectly balanced game with his musicians. Shorter shine on this album, but also give his partner room. Especially hypnotisisernd are two different pieces, the ballad " Teru " and Shorter's tribute to John Coltrane, " Chief Crazy Horse ", which also Herbie Hancock will provide the opportunity to show his skills.
Bob Blumenthal at the remastered and expanded edition in 2003 to the three absent musician who exercised great influence on this session; on the one hand, this Miles Davis was, in the quintet 's legendary composition Foot Sprints grossed eight months later for the album Miles Smiles. Furthermore, Blumenthal Jimmy Rowles, showed a great admiration for his ballads play Wayne Shorter calls. Another source of inspiration was his former Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan - mate was, whose soul - jazz composition The Sidewinder was the 1963 inspiration for the title track of the album.
Richard Cook and Brian Morton emphasize in their review of the album, which she excelled with the highest rating that the meaning of Adam 's Apple lie particularly in the compositions Shorter. For the authors, it is one of the last high point of creative work phase of the saxophonist that began with the album Night Dreamer in April 1964. [ Cook 1]
The title
- Blue Note BLP 4232 (LP), BST 84232 (LP) 7243-5-91901-2-9 (CD Rudy Van Gelder Edition )
(All other compositions are by Wayne Shorter)