{"id":1957,"date":"2013-02-14T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2013-02-14T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:06:33","slug":"new-wayne-shorter-album-without-a-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"New Wayne Shorter album &#8211; &#8220;Without a Net&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/03SHORTER1-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1958\" alt=\"03SHORTER1-articleLarge\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/03SHORTER1-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/03SHORTER1-articleLarge.jpg 600w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/03SHORTER1-articleLarge-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/03SHORTER1-articleLarge-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for this one for a LONG time. \u00a0His quartet has gone through such extraordinary transformation, becoming a thing that functions on its own, with its own rules. \u00a0It is wholly different than the standard approach of &#8220;jazz soloists&#8221; who operate around a preset progression, head and theme. \u00a0Wayne&#8217;s music soars above all convention, defying patently inadequate titles like &#8220;free jazz&#8221; or &#8220;standards&#8221; or &#8220;acoustic quartet&#8221; or &#8220;avant garde.&#8221; \u00a0It is all of that and none of that and so much more. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/03\/arts\/music\/wayne-shorters-new-album-is-without-a-net.html\">He is quoted in the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have to beware the trapdoors of the self,\u201d he said recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think you\u2019re the only one that has a mission,\u201d he went on, \u201cand your mission is so unique, and you expound this missionary process over and over again with something you call a vocabulary, which in itself becomes old and decrepit.\u201d He laughed sharply.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t count how much water there is in a wave when we see the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me there\u2019s no such thing as beginning or end,\u201d Mr. Shorter said. \u201cI always say don\u2019t discard the past completely because you have to bring with you the most valuable elements of experience, to be sort of like a flashlight. A flashlight into the unknown.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>80 years old and still exploring the unknown. \u00a0Like he has any choice in the matter. \u00a0Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayneshorter.com\/\">WayneShorter.com<\/a> for further illumination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for this one for a LONG time. \u00a0His quartet has gone through such extraordinary transformation, becoming a thing that functions on its own, with its own rules. \u00a0It is wholly different than the standard approach of &#8220;jazz &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[532,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}