Wayne Shorter - Gaia (2013)

Wayne Shorter - Gaia (2013)
Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone)
Esperanza Spalding (voice, libretto, double bass)
Leo Genovese (piano)
Terri Lyne Carrington (drums)
Orchestra of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Commissioned and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2013. This performance is from the Solidarity of Arts Festival, Gdańsk, 16 August 2014. (Video footage available here: • Esperanza+, Solidarity... )
"‘I think everything has a purpose and everything has multi-uses,’ Shorter says. ‘To me, ‘Gaia’ is the planet we live on, and the fact we’re all here is symbolic of the limitless description of what life is about. What the libretto is saying is ‘wake up and dream,’ and the challenge is to bring that consciousness to anyone who’s taking for granted the surroundings that we live in and the planet that we live on and the universe that we’re in and the people we encounter. In other words, if we succumb to illusionary stuff and we become victims to a limited view of what life is supposed to be like, where are we? How do we progress? It’s not enough to be comfortable. We have to reach beyond. That’s what this piece is saying." [...] "He wanted it to be a living organism, like Gaia, and to evolve and change according to what was happening at every live performance of it," [Spalding] says." (Oakland Free Press)
" 'Gaia' was a murky, thick-set monster of a piece, 26 1/2 minutes in length [...] massive, slow-moving, opaque textures; sometimes tracking Wayne’s distinctive long, snaking melodic lines on soprano; treating the sections of the orchestra as blocs [...] Shorter - who, unbelievably, turns 80 years young this August - chimed in discreetly on soprano sax; Spalding sounded luminous even when stretched to the uppermost reaches of her range." (Richard S. Ginell, Variety)
R.I.P. Wayne Shorter

[@alessandrograldi4334]

WOW! More words are useless ❤

[@Allworld2u2]

Simply Beautiful!!!

[@giomusic71]

Wayne Shorter è un grande compositore sarà ancora valutato in futuro ❤

[@RonCarterBassist]

🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@TraceTaylor]

Glorious- thank you for uploading-❤🎉 & Apologies but any commercials need to be eliminated completely….. it is disrespectful to the music.

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I agree, it is a beautiful piece! And being performed again next month. If you are seeing commercials, I believe you can disable them with an adblocker. There is no way an individual uploader can control that as far as I know?

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Wow❤

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Pure bliss....

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Does anyone know how to buy the original video?

[@postmeback]

I believe it's just available as a free video on KZbin.

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@@postmeback Thank you. I found the link in the description.

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Ne bi se štel mešat....

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