BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artsboston.org//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artsboston.org X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130522T184443CEST-2467W1rfed@artsboston.org DTSTAMP:20130522T164443Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Wayne Shorter Quartet in Concert\nEvent Url: http:/ /www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441020747/Wayne_Shorter_Quartet_in_Concer t\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-02-08\nEvent Date End: 2011-02-08\n\n&ldquo\;The most dynamic ensemble in jazz\, focused on communion\, empathy and overar ching values more so than set compositions.&rdquo\; --Larry Blumenfeld\, W all Street Journal\n\n&ldquo\;Mr. Shorter's mastery is in knocking down th e wall between jazz and classical. His music not only makes references to the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s\, of which Mr. Shorter was a mem ber\, but also shows the stylistic influences of John Coltrane and Sonny R ollins. Then\, too\, he helped create jazz/fusion\, founding Weather Repor t with Joe Zawinul in 1970.&rdquo\; --The New York Times\n\nBoston\, MA--A bsolutely Live Entertainment\, LLC will present the Wayne Shorter Quartet In Concert on Tuesday\, February 8 at 8:00 p.m. at Berklee Performance Cen ter [136 Massachusetts Avenue\, Boston\, MA 02115]. Tickets at $66 and $ 46 are on sale on now at 10:00 AM at the Berklee Performance Center box of fice\, at www.ticketmaster.com\, all Ticketmaster outlets or by calling 80 0-745-3000. For more information\, call: 617-747-2261 or visit berkleebp c.com/. Berklee Performance Center is wheelchair accessible.\n\nSaxophone legend and NEA jazz master Wayne Shorter\, now 77\, celebrates the 10th y ear of the formation of his highly respected ensemble which features piani st Danilo Perez\, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. Conside red one of the finest rhythm sections in jazz\, these three musicians are known as individual jazz masters as well as the collective voices of the W ayne Shorter Quartet.\n\nDanilo Perez recently released a new CD entitled Providencia\, his &ldquo\;. . . most ambitious album since Motherland\,&rd quo\; noted the Wall Street Journal in a recent article by Larry Blumenfel d. &ldquo\;The album\, which includes a two-part piece scored for a wind quintet\, succeeds largely due to Mr. Pé\;rez's sustained sense of m usical purpose. His career reflects a larger mission. The Panama Jazz Fes tival\, which he founded in 2003\, has brought American musicians to his h omeland and raised more than $1 million for student scholarships. His dir ectorship of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute\, at his alma mater\, stres ses the social power of music\,&rdquo\; Blumenfeld continued.\n\nThis fall \, drummer Brian Blade collaborated with Daniel Lanois on his Black Dub CD and tour project. Jon Pareles of The New York Times describes Blade: &l dquo\;He's an improviser\, continuously remaking grooves from New Orleans\ , Memphis\, reggae and the blues\, and reacting instantaneously to guitar or vocal phrases.&rdquo\; In between Wayne Shorter Quartet gigs and conce rts and recording with Lanois\, Blade has also been performing with his ow n Fellowship Band featuring keyboardist Jon Cowherd\, alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist Myron Walden\, tenor saxophonist Melvin Butler and bassi st Chris Thomas.\n\nAcoustic and electric bassist John Patitucci is not on ly known for his work with Shorter\, but has attracted worldwide acclaim a s a member of Chick Corea's Elektric Band and Akoustic Band&mdash\;a creat ive association that has been in place since 1986. A Grammy (R) -winning bassist\, John Patitucci has become one of today's most influential musici ans and composers\; he is a band leader in his own right. In 2009\, Patit ucci\, released a project for Concord Jazz\, Remembrance\, a remarkable ou ting of 11 straight-ahead-to-funky-to-classical-tinged originals featuring an astounding trio comprising saxophone maestro Joe Lovano and brilliant drummer Brian Blade. The CD was the bassist's 13th as a leader and sevent h for Concord\, with which he made his debut in 1997 with One More Angel. \n\nRegarded as one of the most significant and prolific performers and co mposers in jazz and modern music\, National Endowment for the Arts' &ldquo \;American Jazz Master&rdquo\; Wayne Shorter has an outstanding record of professional achievement in his historic career as a musician. He has rec eived substantial recognition from his peers\, including 9 Grammy (R) Awa rds and 13 Grammy (R) nominations to date.\n\nIn the summer of 2001 Short er began touring as the leader of a talented young lineup featuring pianis t Danilo Perez\, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade\, each a c elebrated recording artist and bandleader in his own right. The group's u ncanny chemistry was well documented on 2002's acclaimed Footprints Live! Shorter followed in 2003 with the ambitious Alegria\, an expanded vision for large ensemble\, which earned him a Grammy (R) Award. The quartet the n released another live recording\, entitled Beyond the Sound Barrier.\n\n Born\, August 25\, 1933 in Newark\, New Jersey\, Shorter attended Arts Hig h School and later graduated from New York University. He served in the U .S. Army from 1956 to 1958\, after which he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messe ngers. His five-year tenure as one of Blakey's Messengers clearly establi shed him as a newcomer to watch and earned him the &ldquo\;New Star Saxoph onist&rdquo\; award in the 1962 Downbeat Poll. That same year he came in second place for &ldquo\;Best Composer\,&rdquo\; one spot behind Duke Elli ngton.\n\nIn 1964 Miles Davis invited Shorter to go on the road with his b and\, which included Herbie Hancock\, Tony Williams and Ron Carter. He st ayed with Davis for six years\, recording a dozen albums with him\, and cr eating a new sound with a bandleader who changed the face of music during that tumultuous decade.\n\nIn 1970\, Shorter co-founded the group Weather Report with keyboardist and Miles Davis alum\, Joe Zawinul. It remained th e premier fusion group through the '70s and into the early '80s before dis banding in 1985 after 16 acclaimed recordings\, including 1980's Grammy (R ) Award-winning double-live LP set\, 8:30. Shorter formed his own group in 1986 and produced a succession of electric jazz albums for the Columbia label -- 1986's Atlantis\, 1987's Phantom Navigator\, 1988's Joy Ryder. He re-emerged on the Verve label with 1995's High Life\, and then released 1997's 1+1\, an intimate duet recording with Herbie Hancock. The two spe nt 1998 touring as a duet.\n\nShorter has received credit for saxophone pe rformances in the motion picture soundtracks Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)\, The Fugitive (1993)\, and Losing Isaiah (1995). He was commissioned to wr ite a piece for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Millennium Concert\, whic h was highly acclaimed by the critics. Most recently\, Shorter was commis sioned by the La Jolla Music Society to compose a piece for the Imani Wind s Ensemble\, further solidifying his place as one of the most important co mposers of the 20th century and beyond.\n\nThrough his musicianship and co mpositions\, Wayne Shorter has radically changed modern music\, and influe nced generations of countless other musicians and composers. The events i n his incredible life's journey have been compiled by author Michelle Merc er in Footprints: The Life And Music of Wayne Shorter (A Tarcher/Penguin). \n\nStart time: 8:00 PM DTSTART:20110208T000000 DTEND:20110208T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Wayne Shorter Quartet in Concert TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR