{"id":3576,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/rachel-z-on-the-milky-way-express-the-music-of-wayne-shorter\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"rachel-z-on-the-milky-way-express-the-music-of-wayne-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3576","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Z &#8211; On The Milky Way Express: The Music of Wayne Shorter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/onthemilkywayexpress.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Rachel Z\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"\/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  <a name=\"Rachel Z\">Rachel Z<\/a><\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  <b>On The Milky Way Express: The Music of Wayne Shorter<\/b><\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  (Tone Center &#8211; 2000)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" height=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/.gif\" width=\"4\"\/> by John Barrett  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"black\">  Best known for her synthesizer, Rachel Z leads a piano  trio as she gives Wayne&#8217;s works a second look.  (She  arranged High Life, his Grammy-winning disc from  1995.)  Very quiet, very understated &#8211; she wins you  over by the force of sheer excellence.  <\/p>\n<p>  Starting with a soft vamp, &#8220;Pinocchio&#8221;  appears  quizzical, hopping between romance and worry.  She  holds notes for poignance, then starts racing; this  works on &#8220;Fall&#8221;, a tune of many colors.  Miriam  Sullivan has a deep woody bass, adding force where  Rachel purrs.  Her walk is vital to &#8220;Footprints&#8221;, a  steady presence as the piano wanders.  Her chords get  stronger, rain in dizzying fashion, and then recede  into calm.  It reminds me of snowfall: movement, in  apparent stillness.  And it is very moving.   <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Dolores&#8221; has a stripped-down sound, and it takes a  while to figure out why:  Rachel plays the whole thing  with just her right hand!  Miriam is bouncy and deep;  Allison Miller answers with slick cymbals.  &#8220;Black  Nile&#8221; is full of swirling eddies; Rachel  churns fast,  and Miller has a bunch of breaks, each shorter than  the last.  &#8220;Black Swan&#8221;, a track from High Life, is  Rachel&#8217;s showcase.  Alone, the echoes sweep over the  notes like the lonely tide &#8211; a great version of a  great composition.  Miriam is tough on &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221;  (forceful walk, haunting bow) and gentle chords course  through &#8220;The Milky Way Express&#8221; &#8211; a light thing  suitable for cruising.  As Rachel says&#8221; &#8220;This song  truly takes us to heaven.&#8221;  Me too.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>  \t          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Z On The Milky Way Express: The Music of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}