Native Dancer (album)

Native Dancer
Studio album by Wayne Shorter
Released September 12, 1974
Recorded 1974
Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz, Latin jazz, jazz fusion, world fusion
Length 41:41
Language English, Portuguese
Label Columbia
Producer Jim Price, Nedra Neal
Wayne Shorter chronology
Odyssey of Iska
(1970)Odyssey of Iska1970		 Native Dancer
(1974)		 Atlantis
(1985)Atlantis1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

Native Dancer is the fifteenth album by Wayne Shorter. It is a collaboration with Brazilian musician Milton Nascimento,[4] featuring some of his most acclaimed compositions, including "Ponta de Areia" and "Miracle of The Fishes". It is notable for including jazz rock and funk elements in addition to regional rhythms and Brazilian influence, in an attempt to create a "world" music accessible from many perspectives. Many American musicians were influenced by this album, including Esperanza Spalding and Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire, who covered "Ponta de Areia" on their hit 1977 album All 'N All. The Penguin Guide to Jazz, while praising Shorter's tenor work, calls it "a bland samba setting which does more to highlight Nascimento's vague and uncommitted vocal delivery than the leader's saxophone playing."[5]

Track listing

  1. "Ponta de Areia" (Milton Nascimento) – 5:18
  2. "Beauty and the Beast" (Wayne Shorter) – 5:04
  3. "Tarde" (Fernando Brant, Nascimento) – 5:49
  4. "Miracle of the Fishes" (Brant, Nascimento) – 4:48
  5. "Diana" (Shorter) – 3:04
  6. "From the Lonely Afternoons" (Brant, Nascimento) – 3:15
  7. "Ana Maria" (Shorter) – 5:10
  8. "Lilia" (Nascimento) – 7:03
  9. "Joanna's Theme" (Herbie Hancock) – 4:17

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 180. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004), p. 322.
  4. ↑ Neil Tesser (1998). The Playboy Guide to Jazz. Bloomsbury. pp. 222, 223.
  5. ↑ Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004), p. 322.
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