Wayne Shorter - Phantom Navigator

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:44
Size: 89,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:13)  1. Condition Red
(6:13)  2. Mahogany Bird
(7:58)  3. Remote Control
(6:30)  4. Yamanja
(6:10)  5. Forbidden, Plan-iT!
(6:38)  6. Flagships

Still drifting after leaving Weather Report, Shorter meanders about in a sea of electronically dominated backings, following the tide in search of a direction. Nothing wrong with electronics per se; it's just that Wayne's compositions in that idiom are weak, the endlessly undulating melodic lines go nowhere and have nothing fresh to say. Stu Goldberg, Mitch Forman, Jeff Bova and Jim Beard unimaginatively bathe the record in synthesizers, and the drum programming by a host of co-conspirators makes for a rather sterile rhythm environment. On a sheer technical level, Wayne's soprano and tenor work is alright, yet on "Yamanja" he does a depressingly mechanical sounding turn on a lyricon. Pass this right by.~ Richard S.Ginell https://www.allmusic.com/album/phantom-navigator-mw0000649731

Personnel:  Wayne Shorter – tenor, and soprano saxophones, lyricon, vocals;  Chick Corea – piano;  Jeff Bova – synthesizer;  Jim Beard – synthesizer;  Mitchel Forman – synthesizer;  Stu Goldberg – synthesizer, electric piano;  John Patitucci – bass;  Alphonso Johnson – bass;  Gary Willis – electric bass;   Tom Brechtlein – drums;  Jimmy Bralower – drums, percussion programming;  Bill Summers – percussion, drum programming;  Scott Roberts – percussion, drum programming;  Ana Maria Shorter – vocals;  Gregor Goldberg – vocals.

Phantom Navigator

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