shorter
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Even if their respite ends up shorter than they might have liked.
From BBC
The band’s members especially loved one interview excerpt from tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, whose 1960s Blue Note releases demonstrated an unbound aesthetic that remains a lodestar for these players: “There is no such thing as a beginning, and no such thing as an end.”
They’d now be called Out Of/Into, to reflect Shorter’s notion of time as circular, or formless, and their own notion that any legacy, including Blue Note’s, is less a weight to bear than a portal through which to pass.
Mr. Brewer introduces his composition “Juno” with a long, lovely bass solo that frames the contours and pace of its melody, voiced mostly by saxophone, and which rises against descending accompaniment; his arrangement of melody and harmony, of foreground and background, is not far afield from Shorter’s conception.
Live birds were still walked but much shorter distances to railway stations, from where they were sent to the capital.
From BBC
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