Published 10:00 pm, Sunday, November 9, 2014
When it comes to innovative jazz visionaries, 81-year-young Wayne Shorter may well be the leader of the pack. So the opportunity to see and hear the man himself, as well as the musicians he has gathered around him, talk about what they do, is an opportunity not to be lost. Guido Lukoschek's documentary The Language of the Unknown: a film about the Wayne Shorter Quartet, now available on DVD from ArtHaus Music, is just such an opportunity.
The DVD has two parts. There is the documentary itself where, against a background of the quartet's live performance, Shorter and members of the band (with a few insights from Carolina Shorter and Herbie Hancock) discuss their music. Then there is a film of the concert itself, "Live in Paris" (November 3, 2012), the gig which provides most of the music featured in the documentary.
Shorter, a veteran who has worked with many of the great jazz innovators in a variety of styles from modal to fusion, post-bop to crossover, who even has a solo on Steely Dan's Aja, is an eminence gris with a message about the nature of his art. It is a message he delivers right at the beginning of the film.
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