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JAZZMAN MAGAZINE
Review of Wayne Shorter Quartet collaboration
at Cite de la Musique, Paris
September 12, 2007
By Alex Dutilh
Together: the place (the big auditorium at Cite de la Musique in Paris, a stage open to classical and other types of music, particularly jazz) + the music (arranged and composed by Wayne Shorter) + the musicians (Wayne's quartet with the classical woodwind quintet Imani Winds) + the audience (long standing ovation, collective happiness, not one bad word leaving). The second part of this concert on Wednesday September 5 at Jazz a la Villette confirmed that for something new, 5+4 is an incomparable formula. In recordings there are a handful of big successes with this combination (and a slew of disasters) flirting classical and jazz together. In my experience, after 35 years of concerts, I've never attended a concert so full of life, intelligence, reactive participation and reciprocated love. It was a lesson in writing spanning all the textures (fl, clar, ob, bsn, hn, sop sax, pno, bass, drums) without being in the least bit academic. In the phrases of Shorter himself the Monk discontinuous lesson was reassembled. One needed 24 hours to come back to earth.
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