In many ways, Native Dancer is a one-off in Wayne Shorter's long and distinguished discography. On five of the nine tracks the jazz legend teams up with Milton Nascimento to create an alluring blend of jazz with the musical sounds of Nascimento's native Brazil (the vocalist and guitarist even gets a co-credit of sorts on the front cover). The other tracks lean towards straight-up jazz, with Shorter displaying his talents on both the soprano and tenor saxophones in a more traditional quartet or quintet setting. None of the music here reaches the heights of Shorter's Blue Note output from the 1960s (or his work as an essential sideman during the same period), but to judge it that way misses the point. Native Dancer finds Shorter exploring new musical territory and at that he succeeds to a high degree.
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