Full name: Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

Author: Michelle Mercer Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781585424689 9781585423538 1585424684 158542353X

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz. Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, and enriched by more than seventy-five original interviews with his friends and associates, this book is at once an invaluable history of music from bebop to pop, an intimate and moving biography, and a story of a man's struggle toward the full realization of his gifts and of himself. Similar books: Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley Pops by Terry Teachout Miles Davis by Ian Carr Louis Armstrong by Laurence Bergreen Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries So What by John Szwed Zappa by Barry Miles Ascension by Eric Nisenson Divided Soul by David Ritz Bad Seed by Ian Johnston Transformer by Victor Bockris Redemption Song by Chris Salewicz Django by Bonnie Christensen On Some Faraway Beach by David Sheppard Beethoven by Maynard Solomon Sweet Jones by Julia Beverly Springsteen by Ryan White I'm the Man by Scott Ian Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad My House of Memories by Merle Haggard