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Night Dreamer

Wayne Shorter · 1964 · Blue Note

Personnel

Wayne Shorter

leader · Saxophone / Tenor Saxophone

Lee Morgan

played Trumpet on this album

Morgan, a former Jazz Messengers bandmate, stood beside Shorter again on his debut Blue Note leader date. The two-horn frontline of Shorter and Morgan embodies the album's bridge between hard bop and something more modal and mysterious.

McCoy Tyner

played Piano on this album

Elvin Jones

played Drums on this album

Reggie Workman

played Double Bass on this album

The 1964–66 Blue Note period was when Wayne ShorterWayne Shorterウェイン・ショーター's compositional voice matured rapidly. On Night DreamerNight DreamerWayne Shorter · 1964 and Speak No EvilSpeak No EvilWayne Shorter · 1966 he established his signature 'mysterious beauty' language. Lee MorganLee Morganリー・モーガン, McCoy TynerMcCoy Tynerマッコイ・タイナー, and Elvin JonesElvin Jonesエルヴィン・ジョーンズ brought it to life.

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Elvin JonesElvin Jonesエルヴィン・ジョーンズ appears on 14 albums — from My Favorite ThingsMy Favorite ThingsJohn Coltrane · 1961 through A Love SupremeA Love SupremeJohn Coltrane · 1965 with Coltrane, crossing into Shorter's world on Night DreamerNight DreamerWayne Shorter · 1964.

Elvin Jones

Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder (1964) was meant as routine hard bop, but the title track became a surprise hit — a chart single that ended up in a TV ad — and it shored up a struggling Blue Note. Afterward the label kept pressing its players for 'another Sidewinder.'

Lee Morgan