Vinyl Record

Wayne Shorter - Wayning Moments

Wayne Shorter - Wayning Moments on LP vinyl. A 1962 Jazz record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · Jazz · 1962

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1962 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Jazz shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Wayning Moments is Wayne Shorter in 1962, standing at the edge of the transformation that would soon make his name unavoidable in modern jazz. It was his third Vee-Jay leader album and the final one from that early label chapter, recorded while his association with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was sharpening both his tenor sound and his compositional nerve. The group setting matters: Freddie Hubbard brings trumpet fire, Eddie Higgins anchors the harmony, Jymie Merritt gives the bass lines weight and Marshall Thompson keeps the hard-bop engine moving. Black Orpheus places Shorter in contact with a melody that was becoming a jazz standard, while Devil's Island, Moon Of Manakoora, Powder Keg and Callaway Went That-A-Way show his appetite for themes that twist slightly away from stock blowing-session routine. Heard after Speak No Evil or Adam's Apple, Wayning Moments can sound more direct, but that directness is its appeal. It catches Shorter before the mystery fully blooms, already too distinctive to be only another young tenor player.

Wayning Moments matters because it closes Wayne Shorter's first leader phase before the Blue Note ascent. In 1962, the album places his hard-bop vocabulary, emerging writing style and high-level peer group in one concise early-career document.

For collectors, Wayning Moments is the early Vee-Jay Shorter album that points forward most clearly while still belonging to the hard-bop lane. Its shelf value is the lineup, the 1962 timing and the chance to hear Shorter's voice before the later Blue Note aura dominates the story.

Hard bop with searching tenor saxophone, bright Freddie Hubbard trumpet, clean piano comping, walking bass drive, crisp drums, lyrical standards material and early Shorter originals with angular edges.

Recommended for: Collectors completing Wayne Shorter's early Vee-Jay leader run; Listeners who want hard bop just before the 1960s post-bop shift; Fans of Wayne Shorter with Freddie Hubbard in a direct small-group setting.

When was Wayning Moments released? Wayning Moments is a 1962 Wayne Shorter album from his early Vee-Jay leader period. Who plays with Wayne Shorter on Wayning Moments? The session features Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Higgins, Jymie Merritt and Marshall Thompson with Shorter. How does Wayning Moments fit Shorter's catalogue? It sits before the famous Blue Note albums, preserving the hard-bop foundation of his early 1960s voice.