(np) Wayne Shorter turned 80 yesterday

[David Morris]

Fagen's "Nightfly" (the whole album) is one of my favorites.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cd9YJvoQIg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6Cd9YJvoQIg

On Tuesday, August 27, 2013, Monte Davis wrote:

> “Jazz is a dangerous thing,” Ian Dury sez in there – but so is category
> anxiety, e.g. that displayed by the Pulitzer Prize board in 1974. ‘Aja’ was
> kind of a touchstone for me when it came out: I was loving Elvis Costello
> and Sex Pistols and Ramones and Television too, but couldn’t believe the
> reflexive, tribal way that many fellow fan of those blew off ‘Aja’ as
> easy-listening Extruded Fusion Product – at least at first.****
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> Fagen’s more-jaded-than-thou lounge lizard persona has always been as
> keenly, brainily calculated as those of Bowie or Waits. Like Costello, he
> and Becker know exactly what they want from rock, jazz, blues, and pop, and
> make it new. (How many apt, seamless  quotations from, say, Horace Silver’s
> great ‘Song for My Father’ and ‘Cape Verdean Blues’ can you find in the SD
> canon?)****
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> Micro-spoiler:  both “Doctor Wu” and “The Fez” are namechecked in BE.****
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> *From:* Keith Davis [mailto:kbob42 at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'kbob42 at gmail.com');>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:08 AM
> *To:* Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> *Cc:* Monte Davis; P-list; Michael Bailey
> *Subject:* Re: (np) Wayne Shorter turned 80 yesterday****
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> Nice to see this appreciation for Wayne Shorter.****
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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'lorentzen at hotmail.de');>>
> wrote:****
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> Steely Dan - "Aja" The Making Of:<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MusH-QijY>
>
> The Wayne Shorter part starts at 3.42****
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> On 26.08.2013 19:14, Monte Davis wrote:****
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> http://www.jazzwax.com/2011/07/how-steely-dan-got-wayne-shorter.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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> On Behalf
> Of Michael Bailey
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:47 PM
> To: P-list
> Subject: (np) Wayne Shorter turned 80 yesterday
>
> Happy Birthday, Wayne Shorter!
>
> http://www.wayneshorter.com/
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> --
> www.innergroovemusic.com ****
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