Melbourne International Jazz Festival

“The most skillful, mutually attuned and fearlessly adventurous small jazz group on the planet… (the quartet) celebrates humanity’s hope for harmony” – The Guardian

Responsible for some of the most revolutionary jazz of the 20th century, Wayne Shorter takes to the stage with three of the world’s finest jazz musicians – Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade – for an evening of unrivalled virtuosity on the closing night of the 2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

For over 50 years composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter has shattered the limitations of jazz with his transcendent musicality. His iconic body of work as a solo artist, as a part of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet and fusion pioneers Weather Report, has defined and redefined jazz for generations.

Compositionally unmatched, winner of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, musical icon. No matter what superlatives are thrown Shorter’s way, nothing compares to the experience of a live performance by "jazz's greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser” (The New York Times).