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'Speak No Evil' Wayne Shorter

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Feb 18, 2010 Updated Feb 19, 2010

With Wayne Shorter on his way down under, ABC Jazz couldn’t pass up the opportunity to revisit this 1965 classic.

Speak No Evil features the stellar line-up of Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Elvin Jones and certainly bringing Shorter's compositional genius to the fore.

Recorded on Christmas Eve, 1964 and released the following year, this album continues to preach it's post-bop message 45 years on.

Here are the tracks:
1. Witch Hunt
2. Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
3. Dance Cadaverous
4. Speak No Evil
5. Infant Eyes
6. Wild Flower
7. Dance Cadaverous (alternate tk - not part of original LP)

All compositions: Wayne Shorter

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Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards. Shorter's output has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and various commendations, including multiple Grammy Awards. Shorter first came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member...

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