{"id":14207,"date":"2023-04-05T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=14207"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:06:25","slug":"paying-tribute-while-receiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/paying-tribute-while-receiving\/","title":{"rendered":"PAYING TRIBUTE WHILE RECEIVING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PAYING TRIBUTE WHILE RECEIVING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Norman Warwick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have reported over the past month or so how the jazz scene has mourned the passing of Wayne Shorter at the time of great acclaim of the recent grammy nominations and awards.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joni Mitchell has now said in a recent correspondence that<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wayne Shorter died March 2nd 2023<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I love Wayne Shorter. He’s the best saxophonist ever, in my opinion. Miles thought so too. Even over Coltrane and the people who were much more famous than Wayne, really. Everything was magical about him. I remember I was playing with Jaco Pastorius, who had just joined Weather Report. Wayne, of course, was one of the founding members of that band. Jaco was supposed to be in the studio recording with me, and he didn’t show up. So I said to Henry, the engineer, \u201dI know where he is. Let’s go get him.\u201d So we went down to the rehearsal studio. Zawinul and Jaco were tossing a Frisbee on the ground. They were throwing it with their hand and priding themselves on how good they were at catching a Frisbee and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a certain point, they threw it at Peter Erskine, who was a new drummer in the band. It came towards him and he was terrified. He reached up and grabbed it and threw it. It wobbled all the way back. Jaco looked at him and kind of gave him the stink eye for a bad throw. Up on the stage meantime was Wayne with his horn tucked under his left arm. He was playing the keyboard with his right hand. Joe threw the Frisbee at Wayne, and it was coming straight at Wayne\u2019s head, out of his peripheral vision. Wayne reached up, caught it and threw it back perfectly. You know, Wayne was more than a musician. He was like a little Zen master. He was mystical. He was the only musician that I could direct metaphorically or theatrically. I would say to him, \u201cCome in here<\/em> and get out here<\/em>. Then come in really sad, and by the time you get to here<\/em>\u2026 get really young.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he would play that! Or, I\u2019d tell him, okay, Wayne, \u201cyou’re the bird.\u201d So he’d go out in the studio, put his horn in his mouth, and the first lick that came out of him was so like a bird. It was amazing. Then his hand was in the air waving for \u201cone more take,\u201d and I said, \u201cno way. I’ll punch you in, but I won’t start over.\u201d So I punched him in and I left the first lick that he played on the record. It was magnificent. He was just kind of unconscious when he played it, but it was so bird-like and so unusual. He was a beautiful musician. He will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joni brought Both Side Now of the political aisle together, as lawmakers and musical artists celebrated her life and career at the Library of Congress \u00b4Gershwin Prize For Popular Song\u00b4when she was honoured recently in a star-studded ceremony at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b4The annual honour from the Library of Congress, named after both George and Ira Gershwin, is considered to be the nation\u00b4s highest award for influence, impact and achievement in popular music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b4Mitchell\u00b4s music\u00b4, stated Librarian Of Congress, Carla Hayden, to the packed audience at the tribute concert, \u00b4\u00b4 hits you straight to your heart, down to your soul\u00b4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d tell him, okay, Wayne, \u201cyou’re the bird.\u201d So he’d go out in the studio, put his horn in his mouth, and the first lick that came out of him was so like a bird. It was amazing. Then his hand was in the air waving for \u201cone more take,\u201d and I said, \u201cno way. I’ll punch you in, but I won’t start over.\u201d So I punched him in and I left the first lick that he played on the record. It was magnificent. He was just kind of unconscious when he played it, but it was so bird-like and so unusual. He was a beautiful musician. He will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14213,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207\/revisions\/14213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}