Sean Johnson Jazz

Pianist John Rangel, percussionist Cal Haines, tenor saxophonist Sean Johnson, and bassist Cyrus Campbell will perform selections of Wayne Shorter’s original works originally recorded and released on his 1960’s run of landmark Blue Note Records albums. Wayne Shorter led a legendary career spanning more than half a century that included monumental memberships in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis’ iconic 1960s quintet, and the fusion supergroup Weather Report, in addition to an incomparable path as a leader. His classic Blue Note albums from the mid-60s and early 70s, including Night Dreamer, JuJu, Speak No Evil, The All Seeing Eye, and Adam’s Apple, are essential parts of jazz history, and he had memorable collaborations with Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Esperanza Spalding, Steely Dan, Carlos Santana, and Milton Nascimento. Wayne led his longstanding quartet featuring Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade beginning in 2000, won 11 GRAMMYs, and received the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He was a 2018 recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, and his most recent albums are the GRAMMY-winning 2018 triple-disc Blue Note release Emanon and an archival 2017 live date from the Detroit Jazz Festival released last year. Wayne Shorter, the enigmatic, intrepid saxophonist who shaped the color and contour of modern improvised music as one of its most intensely admired composers, died on Thursday, March 2, 2023 in Los Angeles. He was 89.