Greek tragedy meets American ingenuity in Iphigenia, the long-awaited opera by Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding.A mythical work in progress for the last several years, it has now reached a developmental stage foreign to most other operatic productions: a crowdfunding campaign. Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil” On the spectrum of jazz challenges, Wayne Shorter’s “Speak No Evil” appears to lean toward the easy side. The title track of the eminent saxophonist and composer’s 1964 masterpiece Speak No Evil sits in a comfortable and utterly approachable medium swing. The tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter is widely recognized as a con-summate improviser, but his historical significance rests equally on his contributions as a composer. Orbits by Wayne Shorter - Harmonic Analysis? Thread Tools. And that, really, is the key and slightly oversimplified difference between the functional and non-functional harmony. This article considers three compositions from the 1960s by Wayne Shorter, “E.S.P.,” “Juju,” and “Iris,” from the perspective of transformational theory.5 It shows how Shorter’s nonfunctional, post-bop harmony may be conceptualized in terms of motions through pitch-class spaces. In Shorter's harmony , you might hear that from a previous chord EVERY pitch slides down to a destination a minor 2nd or major 2nd up or down in the next chord, or you could hear only one or two pitches held constant while while all the other chord tones (there might be 5 … Wayne Shorter is one of jazz’s most recorded composers and, like Hancock, was a member of Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet. "Toy Tune" stands out from the other songs because of the tempo and swing. Wayne Shorter composed four of the five tracks on the album; "Barracudas (General Assembly)" by Gil Evans remains the only exception. Wayne Shorter, who was born only thirteen years after Charlie Parker and seven years after Miles Davis and John Coltrane, turns eighty-five today. Note that no chord is inherently functional or non-functional. 09-11-2019, 05:33 AM #1. Chick Corea with respect to harmony in selected works. It depends on the whole chord progression. The primary research question branching from this aim is: what compositional processes do Shorter and Corea use to create unconventional yet aesthetically pleasing chord progressions? The existing literature on the compositional styles of Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea are The compositions he wrote while playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers began to build his reputation,1 but it came to full flower during and after his subsequent tenure with the Miles Davis Quintet. COMPOSITIONS, 1964–67. In the academic study of Wayne Shorter’s compositions, so far most of the attention has been dedicated to the harmony in pieces from the 1950s and ’60s. Steven Strunk. WAYNE SHORTER’S. NOTES ON HARMONY IN. To distinguish between functional and non-functional harmony, you must understand a … The tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter is widely recognized as a con summate improviser, but his historical significance rests equally on his contributions as a composer. Harmonically, "Footprints" takes the form of a 12-bar C minor blues, but this is masked not only by its triple time signature but by its avant garde turnaround (series of chords that return to the main, or I chord). Harmony. Shorter … Arpeggio. Wayne Shorter.