Native Dancer

Wayne Shorter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000274F
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,011 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So good it hurts, November 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Native Dancer (Audio CD)

1979... I'm sitting in a partial differential equations class... some guy sitting next to me is so out of it, he's listening to a tape on his walkman. I ask for a listen. I put on the earphones and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS BEAUTIFUL SOUND? WHERE DID IT COME FROM?! It was Native Dancer, and though it took me some time to buy a copy for myself, the piercing clarity of Milton Nascimento's voice and Wayne Shorter's sax never faded from my memory. Now of course I've listened to these 10 tracks hundreds of times but I'm still just as fascinated. This is a masterpiece, a rare and electrifying summit of Brazilian pop with American jazz that somehow -- and god knows this dosn't happen very often -- makes both of them more focused and brilliant.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Beautiful Soulful Music, December 28, 2003

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K. home "therebbe" (Newton Centre, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Native Dancer (Audio CD)

Wayne Shorter is one of the great musicians of his generation. And Native Dancer is one of the finest and most beautiful works ever pressed into vinyl or burned into a disc. This is an all time great, a must for any admirer of Shorter or superstar Milton Nascimento.
Smart, incisive, Shorter plays with a measured balance of heart and head. His earliest music chronicles a young man's attempt to first sound as good as Coltrane, then with age, like himself. Shorter is one of those horn players instantly recognizeable. I heard Native Dancer for the first time as a freshman at college. I was a Shorter fan by then, both the early SHorter (Juju, Speak No Evil, etc.), as well as the later Weather Report work. I loved Airto, and played his Fingers album 24/7 when that came out.
But Native Dancer which includes Herbie Hancock playing with untouchable virtuosity and Milton singing all over the octaves, and Shorter's soprano sax loving, laughing, weeping -- well, it doesn't get much better. The music here goes deeply to one's soul..
It's odd. I don't speak a word of Portuguese, but everytime I hear Tarde -- and I've heard it a thousand times -- the words and the music break my heart.
Buy this cd.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic American-Brazilian Exchange, July 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Native Dancer (Audio CD)

What a breakthrough album this was back in 1975, with its incredible meeting of musical minds: Wayne Shorter, Milton Nascimento, Herbie Hancock, Airto and others. Some excellent background information on this album (plus on Milton and Airto) is provided in the book "The Brazilian Sound," which is recommended to all fans of jazz and Brazilian music.