So I just got back from a week up north recharging the batteries and wanted to just let you all know that I finally found the time to read Michelle Mercer’s great bio on Wayne Shorter Footprits.

This one should be required reading for any jazz fan, or fan of music for that matter.

Onstage and off, Wayne wants every note to count, to push the story ahead. “Miles used to bring up Humphrey Bogart in those mystery movies he played in,” Wayne said. “Miles would say, ‘You see the way Humphrey threw that punch?,’ and I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he said, ‘Play that.’”

“Well, I like to make music like that,” he continued. “Musical motion pictures without movies. And life has become my own motion picture. That’s some thing.” That’s a jazz musician’s ultimate act of improvisation.

Anyways, I hope any of you that haven’t read it will take the time to check it out.

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