Super Nova

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1969's <i>Super Nova</i> was begun mere days after Shorter's participation in Miles Davis' fusion masterpiece <i>Bitches Brew</i>, and it includes much of the same personnel. In fact, half the tracks are Shorter compositions that Miles had cut a few years earlier, though the Davis versions weren't released until 1976. What a difference two years make—on the Miles sessions, "Sweet Pea," "Capricorn," and "Water Babies" were framed as relatively straightforward bop (or at least post-bop) tunes, but on <i>Super Nova</i> they're turned inside out, creating sort of cubist versions of the earlier interpretations. Shorter's <i>Bitches Brew</i> bandmates John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, and Jack DeJohnette let their freak flags fly, contributing as much freewheeling, outward-bound playing as possible on the ostensibly "composed" tunes. Things move even further out on the other cuts, especially when six-string deconstructionist Sonny Sharrock chimes in on "More Than Human" and the most avant-garde setting for Antonio Carlos Jobim's bossa nova classic "Dindi" that you've ever heard.

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