{"id":2019,"date":"2016-04-07T23:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2019-09-12T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:03:18","slug":"kudos-wayne-shorter-sole-jazz-guggenheim-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2016\/04\/kudos-wayne-shorter-sole-jazz-guggenheim-fellow.html","title":{"rendered":"Kudos Wayne Shorter, sole “jazz” Guggenheim fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though the Guggenheim Foundation<\/a> has in\u00c2\u00a0recent practice\u00c2\u00a0conferred several of its prestigious annual fellowships on musicians of jazz or beyond, only\u00c2\u00a0Wayne Shorter<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0the great 83 year old saxophonist-composer — an NEA Jazz Master, co-founder of Weather Report, veteran of Miles Davis’ great 1960’s quintet and before that Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers — represents\u00c2\u00a0music creativity from that legacy in\u00c2\u00a0this year’s\u00c2\u00a0slate of\u00c2\u00a0178 honorees and beneficiaries named April 6, drawn from U.S. and Canadian citizens in humanities, sciences and the arts.<\/p>\n

The Guggenheim is, according to its website, “intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Shorter certainly qualifies — he’s been a star soloist and creative\u00c2\u00a0composer (his fellowship category is “Music Composition”) essentially since his 1959 recording debut. Today he leads a\u00c2\u00a0fearless improvising quartet\u00c2\u00a0comprising pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade — their most recent album is Without A Net<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>— but many of us (well, I) favor his albums and featured spots \"71LDmJI0RnL._SY355_\"<\/a>since the ’60s, including these recommendations:<\/p>\n