WAYNE SHORTER – Adams Apple (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) – LP – 180g Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition 180g Black Vinyl. Stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes.

Wayne Shorter had already set a high bar over the course of his first several Blue Note albums, which included all-time jazz classics including Night Dreamer, JuJu, and Speak No Evil, but 1966s Adams Apple featuring Herbie Hancock on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums immediately joined the ranks of the saxophonists greatest recordings and remains a pinnacle artistic statement of Blue Notes fertile post-bop era.

Shorter composed 5 of the sessions 6 tracks including the grooving title track, which surely had producer Alfred Lion dancing around Rudy Van Gelders studio. Other highlights of this sublime set include Jimmy Rowles arresting 502 Blues (Drinkin And Drivin), Shorters bossa-inflected El Gaucho, the tender ballad Teru, and the first recording of his timeless composition Footprints, which Shorter would record again later that year with the Miles Davis Quintet for the album Miles Smiles. The album closes with the evocative composition Chief Crazy Horse featuring Shorters trademark harmonic twists and a churning solo spotlight by Chambers.

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Tracklist:

A1: Adam’s Apple
A2: 502 Blues (Drinkin’ And Drivin’)
A3: El Gaucho

B1: Footprints
B2: Teru
B3: Chief Crazy Horse.