Alan Shorter

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Alan Shorter (born May 29, 1932 in Newark (New Jersey) , † April 5, 1988 in Los Angeles ) was an American musician ( trumpet and flugelhorn ) and composer of free jazz .

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Alan Shorter was the older brother of saxophonist Wayne Shorter . He began playing the alto saxophone and switched to the trumpet after graduating from high school. He studied at Howard University but rebelled against the ultra-conservative atmosphere and was expelled; he graduated from New York University . He had as a member of a local his first professional appearances bebop big band named Jackie Bland band , which also includes his brother Wayne, the trombonist Grachan Moncur III and pianist Walter Davis Jr. belonged. Shorter was more of a bebop musician in the early stages of his career, but soon shifted his interests towards free jazz .
Shorter moved to Europe in the mid-1960s and performed in Geneva and Paris; He returned to the United States in the late 1970s. He then briefly taught at Bennington College , but was then forgotten. He died of an aortic occlusion in Los Angeles in 1987 , shortly after being hired by Ruth Ann Hancock, a cousin of Herbie Hancock .

Shorter recorded two albums under his own name, Orgasm (1968) and Tes Esat (1970); they were re-released by Verve Records in 2004 and 2005, respectively . He also worked on five albums by saxophonist Archie Shepp between 1965 and 1970 , such as the Impulse album Four for Trane . Three albums were created in 1965/66 with Marion Brown and one in 1970 with Alan Silva ( Seasons , 1970); In 1965 he had a guest appearance on Wayne Shorter's album The All Seeing Eye . Some of these albums contain his unusual compositions, such as "Mephistopheles" (on The All Seeing Eye ).

Alan Shorter's game is similar to Don Cherry's . The authors Richard Cook & Brian Morton emphasize the quality of his compositions, especially on his album Orgasm (1968).

Discographic notes

Albums under your own name

Albums as a sideman

  • Archie Shepp: Four for Trane (Impulse !, 1964)
  • Archie Shepp: Coral Rock (1970)
  • Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye (Blue Note, 1965)
  • Marion Brown: Marion Brown Quartet (1965)
  • Marion Brown: Marion Brown (1965)
  • Marian Brown: Juba-Lee (1966)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shorter, Alan (1932-1988), flugelhorn player. OxfordIndex.oup.com, accessed June 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Shorter, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1988
Place of death los Angeles