DENNIS BROE finds much to praise in the new South African Netflix series, but wonders why it feels forced to sell out its heroine
Horns locked
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Denys Baptiste, saxophonist, after his tribute session to the great US saxophonist Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter, 2012; Denys Baptiste, 2005
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HERE’S a story of two powerful and epochal saxophonists, one from the US, the other a Londoner.
The first is Wayne Shorter, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1933, who died in March this year, after a lifetime of jazz invention. The musical director and fiery hornman of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in their most rampaging years between 1959-1963; leader of the series of ’60s insurgent albums for Blue Note, tenorist in one of Miles Davis’s most formidable quintets from 1964 -70, and co-instigator of Weather Report, a pioneering fusion band of electronic jazz.
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