Wayne Shorter - Emanon - 3 x 180g Vinyl LP Box Set

2018 release

Deluxe box contains three 180gm vinyl LPs, three CDs and a graphic novel enclosed in a beautiful hardcover slipcase. 2018 release from jazz legend and 10-time Grammy winner Wayne Shorter. Emanon is Shorter's first release since 2013's Without A Net, which marked Shorter's momentous return to Blue Note Records where he began his heralded recording career in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1959.

Emanon is an extraordinary musical and visual experience that presents a triple album of original music by Shorter performed by The Wayne Shorter Quartet-featuring Shorter on soprano and tenor saxophone with Danilo Perez on piano, John Patitucci on bass, and Brian Blade on drums-with and without the 34-piece Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The music is accompanied by a graphic novel penned by Shorter with Monica Sly and illustrated by Randy DuBurke.

"The packaging, presentation and sound are all superlative. Contained within an LP sized slip case are the 3 LPs mastered by Bernie Grundman and pressed at RTI, the smaller die-cut heavy cardboard book(let) composed of separate sections that are bound together with a minimalist section of gauze-tape that leaves unbound and visible the individual sections, within which are the 3 CDs. The smaller booklet slides into an appropriately sized compartment. If this booklet doesn’t win the Grammy for packaging, I cannot begin to imagine what might top it.

"The recorded sound, both in the studio and live, by Rob Griffin and Todd Whitelock is spectacularly transparent, dynamic and three-dimensional and Griffin’s mix is flawless and endlessly tasteful. The musically and sonically spectacular finale of “Prometheus Unbound” will set you free.

"No wonder the L.A. and Orange County Audio Society awarded this its first ever ARYA (Audiophile Recording of the Year Award)."

"Other than misspelling the word “obedience” as “obediance” Emanon is a flawlessly conceived, recorded and produced package that at one time, not that long ago, I would have thought could only exist in an alternative universe where vinyl records ruled. It took the courage of a Pegasus to take action, but here we are! You can now stream Emanon, but to me that’s like watching pornography instead of making love." - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet, January 25, 2019, 11/11 Music, 11/11 Sound!