There is an exquisite interview with Wayne Shorter somewhere on the tubes of You. He tells the story of meeting Lester Young in Toronto at the Towne Tavern. A lot of detail and magic and so was Wayne Shorter\u2019s tone. I know his cred for the Miles Davis records is often the first honour cited, but for me it\u2019s the 70s Weather Report output, forever in my bloodstream. I don\u2019t know the ins and outs of playing saxophone but even though I\u2019ve heard awesome great players over many years, only two I can think of, Ron Allen and Ernie Tollar, that made a sound reminding me of Mr. Gone [that’s what they called him]. I have no idea what that\u2019s all about but it stops me in my tracks. It doesn\u2019t seem easily reproduced. A Remark You Made by Zawinul is a favourite for me. Now they are all Mister Gones: Pastorius, Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. He was also friends with Joni Mitchell and they made that unusual double album \u2013 Don Juan\u2019s Reckless Daughter. Probably, most think it is a reference to a romantic Don Juan, but in an interview I read it\u2019s her love of the Carlos Castaneda\u2019s books. The encounters between Don Juan the shaman and Carlos the anthropologist. Shame, none of the young people seem to any longer need to consume peyote and consciousness adventures, recorded so diligently in Journey to Ixtlan. I liked them as a duo on A Bird That Whistles though I never quite bought her as Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I also loved Wayne Shorter in the middle of Aja with Steve Gadd. What a drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"