Night Dreamer

Occupation

Night Dreamer is a jazz album by Wayne Shorter, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on April 29, 1964 and released on Blue Note Records.

The album

After Wayne Shorter had recorded three albums under his own name during his time with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for the small Jee - Vay - label, where he worked with the trumpeters Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard, the year 1964 became a turning point of his career. In April 1964 he was given the opportunity to record as a leader of a quintet for Blue Note, the LP NightDreamer with Morgan as other wind instruments as well as McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones as a support group whose selection already expressed its proximity to John Coltrane; they were in 1961 Coltrane's rhythm section at the recording of the album Africa / Brass. In August the album JuJu followed. In September Shorter was then a member of the legendary Miles Davis Quintet second, where he replaced George Coleman, and performed with him on 15 September at the Berlin Jazz Festival on. Finally, in December was Shorter's masterpiece Speak No Evil with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Elvin Jones again.

The jazz critic Nat Hentoff wrote of his time in the liner notes for the LP Night Dreamer, it was Shorter's first proper album as head of his own formation, his single most important session, and also mark them Shortes growing importance as a composer of jazz titles; so the album only contains the original title. It was also a transitional album from the more conventional in the hard bop style held, straight-forward played songs of the Vee Jay- phase to more sophisticated compositions. When asked what he was doing in his plays, Shorter said that it was to him to claim to be " insight" ( judgment ); the title of " Armageddon," he does not understand ( conventionally ) as the struggle between "good " and "evil ", but as the beginning of a period of total enlightenment in which we realize what we are and why we are here ( on earth) quotes him Hentoff.

Shorter's proclamation of enlightenment ( enlightenment ) begins with the title track "Night Dreamer ", which he gives a mostly flowing character. The following "Oriental Folk Song " was originally written as the theme for a TV infomercial; later adapted it into a jazz Shorter version.

The heavily inspired by Coltrane ballad " Virgo" says the star sign Virgo, was born under the Shorter on August 25, 1933. In " Virgo" already indicates the balladry of the composer Shorter, in 1967 culminated in the Miles Davis band a few years later in titles such as "case" ( Nefertiti ) or " Water Babies ".

"Black Nile " received its title from books by the author Alan Moorehead, The White Nile and The Blue Nile, seen as a homage to the Shorter Egyptian culture as one of Africa's oldest civilizations.

The following " Charcoal Blues" ( Charcoal Blues ) is Shorter's reference to the blues songs of his childhood.

The last track "Armageddon" ( Armageddon ) occupies a central place for the saxophonist; it emphasizes the seriousness of the composition, with their rapidly played initiation leads astray first and as a camouflage for what comes next, Hentoff wrote in 1964.

Album Review

With NightDreamer the six -year-long era Wayne Shorter began at the Blue Note label; eleven music productions were made at this time. Bob Blumenthal wrote in his remarks to the new edition in 2004 that Shorter with the album and his spiritual intentions much anticipated from what was felt in the society in the second half of the 1960s. Joe Zawinul told by his colleagues that he was the first person I met who was open to new thinking. The All Music Guide awards the album 's second highest rating (4.5 of 5 points ) Night Dreamer is now one of the essential albums of Shorter's early creative period, Richard Cook and Brian Morton noted for the record that it is the Shorter's most original work in the group Blue Note Records was; Night Dreamer was also the work in which he Coltrane is closest; so show " Virgo" as a study object, how much Coltrane influenced younger saxophonists. Titles such as " Charcoal Blues " or " Armageddon" are easily identifiable with his ( later ) work; and also the exotic touch of "Oriental Folk Song " repeats itself in the later recordings Shorter Cook and Morton give the album the second highest rating. Ian Carr emphasized in jazz - Rough Guide, the poetic moment Shorter's compositions compared to the previous recordings at Vee Jay or at Blakey. and calls it a great pre -Miles album.

The title

Blue Note LP ( BST 844 173 ), CD: (82 84173 ) ( 1987), CD ( RVG Series) ( 7243 8 75334 24)

All tracks were composed by Shorter. The cover photograph was by Francis Wolff. In 2005, the album was reissued as part of the Rudy Van Gelder - RVG Edition series.

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