Wayne Shorter
Tenor Sax Solo on
Yes or No

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Wayne Shorter's tenor saxophone solo is the first of two improvisations on the most driving uptempo track on the JuJu album. Taking three choruses of the unusually long 58-bar AABA form in C at a blistering 253 BPM, Shorter navigates vast harmonic terrain in each chorus with concentrated intensity. The extended form gives each chorus an almost suite-like scope, and Shorter fills this expanse with the urgent, searching quality that characterized his most inspired playing.

Wayne Shorter was 30 to 31 years old at the time.