Jazz song for today. 11/17/23

Todays song is a popular jazz standard "Footprints" by Wayne Shorter

Footprints first appeared on his 1966 album "Adam's Apple**"

Wayne Shorter, saxophonist, composer and bandleader experienced a life-changing epiphany as a 15-year old when he saw Lester Young at a Norman Granz Jazz at the Philharmonic show in Newark along with Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Russel Jacquest. 

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"Addam's Apple" Album (1967)

 By the following year he had a clarinet and was studying music, though he soon switched to tenor  saxophone and formed a band in his teenage years called "The Jazz Informers." Shorter worked his way through New York University by playing with the Nat Phipps Orchestra (Wayne Shorter, Grachan Moncur, Chris White, Charlie Mason, Harold Phipps and Robert Thomas.) and shortly afterwards was given the nickname "The Newark Flash" for his speed and facility on the tenor saxophone. He is noted for his influence on both hard boppers and fusionists.

American jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter (circa 1960)

YouTube Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgaIUqH0w6c