Music: Nduduzo Makhathini — ‘Mama’
Focusing on a concert performed on November 3, 2012, in the Salle Pleyel in Paris, The Language of the Unknown, explores the genius of Wayne Shorter (at that time 81) through his music and philosophy. Shorter died in Los Angeles on March 2, 2023. Shaun Brady writes: If one were to subscribe to Wayne Shorter’s philosophy — and it’s an expansive one, folding in inspiration from Buddhism, science fiction, literature, comic books and beyond, along a lifetime of boundless…
The New York Times reports: Wayne Shorter, the enigmatic, intrepid saxophonist who shaped the color and contour of modern jazz as one of its most intensely admired composers, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89. His publicist, Alisse Kingsley, confirmed his death, at a hospital. Mr. Shorter had a sly, confiding style on the tenor saxophone, instantly identifiable by his low-gloss tone and elliptical sense of phrase. His sound was brighter on soprano, an instrument on which…