Wayne Shorter Quartet -- a show worth seeing

I know all these jazzmen well from the band. Wayne Shorter was once working in Material project of Bill Laswel along with speach performer William Burroghs. He was so different there from Weather Report! As to John Patitucci, he not once played for Chick Corea and created some of the solo albums as well on brilliant Concord Jazz label that i consider as reference for all red-book CDs. I have his album "One More Angel" which has a great music and superb recording.

Swingman,

Here are my top 10 favorite titles that John Patitucci plays on.

1) Steve Kahn / Got My Mental

2) Chick Corea Akoustic Band / Live From The Blue Note Tokyo (Import) Also includes Vinnie Colaiuta on drums....this is an absoulte must have. I think you can get on Amazon or better yet try Audiphileimports.com.

3)Jeff Beal / Three Graces

4) John Patitucci / Sketchbook

5) The Randy Waldman Trio / Wigged Out

6)Mike Stern / Give And Take

7)The Roy Haynes Trio Featuring Danilo Perez & John Patitucci

8) Gary Burton & Friends / Departure

9) Andy Laverne / Pleasure Seekers

10) Chick Corea Elektric Band / Beneath The Mask

5{ 't believe I forgot to put this on the Patitucci list:

Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Roy Hardgrove / Directions In Music, Celecbrating the Music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Live at Massey Hall. Featuring John Patitucci and Brian Blade.

Also, if you like Brian Blade check out Chris Potter / Gratitude, Joshua Redman's newest release Elastic and Yaya3.

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I'd second that Roy Haynes album. Nice recording and tunes in a trio format with a Latin tinge.

Saw this band last winter at USC. A phenomenal show - great interplay among an accomplished bunch, and at that time, Patitucci's general tendancy towards showy excess was not evident, as everyone genuninely communed in an excellent evening of music. I don't get why this thread is devolving into a discussion of Patitucci - not taking anything away from him, but Brian Blade and Danilo Perez are also both powerhouses in their own right, and in particular, I came away from that show with tremendous respect for Perez's sensitivity and breadth of vocabulary in providing the harmonic and rhythmic glue that really held this band together. I had not previously appreciated how good this guy is. But as the band came forward to take a collective bow at the end of the show, Mr. Patitucci demonstrated a degree of self-awareness not evident from his sweaty but exhilerated colleagues, as he primped his hair and grabbed his sports jacket before stepping up. For all of his achievements, he just didn't seem to be as fully absorbed by the gestalt of the moment as his colleagues. And of course, there is Wayne, who plays one hell of a lot of horn for a guy his age, and whose conceptual vision is the reason for this group in the first instance. Bottom line - see these folks if you have the chance.