Andrew Councill for The New York Times Wayne Shorter’s new album, “Without a Net,†will be released on Blue Note on Tuesday.This week, Nate Chinen talks with host Ben Ratliff about Wayne Shorter, the subject of his piece in this weekend’s Arts and Leisure section.
Mr. Shorter, about to new album with his quartet (“Without A Net,†on Blue Note), played groundbreaking music with the Miles Davis quintet and Weather Report; he’s still considered standard-bearer in jazz as we know it. But what sort of bandleader is he How is it that a nearly 80-year-old musician is seen as the essence of an evolving music Why his insistence on talking about eternity and the falsity of endings And what’s the link between Buddhism and Louis Armstrong
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