![]() The band’s dazzling creations were not jazz, fusion or world music, per se, but a beguiling combination of all of them - and more. Shorter’s ability to be creative in any medium was showcased the first time I heard him perform with Weather Report at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. “And you gain wisdom through being gregarious as a person, rather than folding inward and declaring you are doing something ‘pure and uncontaminated.’ That’s the worst thing that can happen.” Or, as he expounded in our 1997 interview: “I feel the freedom to do music and be creative (means) you should be able to work your creativity through any medium. ![]() “And a sub-definition of jazz is: ‘No category’.” “Whatever that word, ‘jazz,’ could mean, to me it’s the spirit of the pursuit of freedom and happiness,” Shorter told me in a 2002 interview.
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