Alan Shorter

Alan Shorter (* May 29, 1932 in Newark (New Jersey), † 1987 in Los Angeles ) was an American musician (trumpet and flugelhorn) and composer of free jazz.

Life and work

Alan Shorter was the older brother of saxophonist Wayne Shorter. He first began to play on the alto saxophone and moved after he had graduated from high school, to the trumpet. He studied at Howard University, but rebelled against the ultra -conservative atmosphere and was relegated; He graduated from New York University. He had his first professional appearances as a member of a local Bebop Big band called Jackie Bland band also included his brother Wayne, trombonist Grachan Moncur III and the pianist Walter Davis Jr. to the. In the early phase of his career Shorter was more of a bebop musician, but soon shifted his interests towards free jazz. The mid 1960s moved Shorter to Europe and appeared in Geneva and Paris; In the late 1970s he returned to the United States. He then taught briefly at Bennington College, but then fell into oblivion. He died in 1987 at an aortic closure in Los Angeles, shortly after he was hired by Ruth Ann Hancock, a cousin of Herbie Hancock.

Shorter took under his own name two albums, Orgasm (1968) and Tes Esat (1970); they were re-released by Verve Records in 2004 and 2005 respectively. He also appeared between 1965 and 1970 to five albums by saxophonist Archie Shepp with how the Impulse album Four for Trane. Three albums created 1965/66 with Marion Brown and one in 1970 with Alan Silva ( Seasons, 1970); In 1965 he had with Wayne Shorter's album The All Seeing Eye a guest appearance. Some of these albums contain his unusual compositions, such as " Mephistopheles " (on The All Seeing Eye ).

Alan Shorter's game is comparable to that of Don Cherry. The authors Richard Cook raise the quality of his compositions, produced in particular on his album Orgasm (1968).

Disco Graphical Notes

Albums under his own name

Albums as a sideman

  • Archie Shepp: Coral Rock (1970 )
  • Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye ( Blue Note, 1965)
  • Marion Brown Marion Brown Quartet ( 1965)
  • Marion Brown Marion Brown ( 1965)
  • Marian Brown: Juba -lee (1966 )

Swell

  • Michelle Mercer: Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter. Tarcher, 2004. ISBN 158542353X
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
Walter Davis, Jr. Impulse! Records Don Cherry (trumpeter) Richard Cook (journalist) Integrated Authority File
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