Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (1978 Japanese Blue Note GXK 8048 LP)

Vinyl: NM
Sleeve: EX
Obi: None

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Wayne Shorter - Super Nova | Vinyl LP - 1978 Japanese Blue Note (GXK 8048, Blue Note Masterpiece Selection 150, King Record Co. Ltd.)

In August 1969 Wayne Shorter had just recorded In A Silent Way with Miles Davis. The Blue Note contract was still running. Duke Pearson produced the session that became Super Nova at A&R Studios in New York, and the ensemble he assembled looks nothing like any previous Shorter Blue Note date. Two guitarists — John McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock — covered ground between modal rock and pure noise. Miroslav Vitous, already essential to what would become Weather Report, played bass. Two drummers split the kit: Jack DeJohnette also played kalimba; Chick Corea played drums and vibraphone instead of piano. Airto Moreira handled percussion. 

Five of the six tracks are Shorter originals, though three — "Swee-Pea," "Water Babies" and "Capricorn" — had already been recorded with the Miles Davis Quintet in 1967 during sessions that wouldn't be released until 1976 as the Water Babies album. The versions here are barely recognisable by comparison. "Dindi," the Jobim standard, sits at the end of Side A and is completely different from everything around it: Walter Booker and McLaughlin play classical guitar, Maria Booker sings, Shorter is almost quiet. The B-side opens with "Water Babies" and closes with "More Than Human," and neither pulls any punches.

This 1978 Japanese pressing is part of the Blue Note Masterpiece Selection 150 series, manufactured by King Record Co. Ltd.