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Native Dancer is the fifteenth album by Wayne Shorter. It is a collaboration with Brazilian musician Milton Nascimento, featuring some of his most acclaimed compositions, including “Ponta de Areia” and “Miracle of The Fishes”. It is notable for including jazz rock and funk elements in addition to regional rhythms and Brazilian influence, in an attempt to create a “world” music accessible from many perspectives. Many American musicians were influenced by this album, including Esperanza Spalding and Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire, who covered “Ponta de Areia” on their hit 1977 album All ‘n All. The Penguin Guide to Jazz, while praising Shorter’s tenor work, calls it “a bland samba setting which does more to highlight Nascimento’s vague and uncommitted vocal delivery than the leader’s saxophone playing (https://goo.gl/sm8TdM).

Track listing:
“Ponta de Areia” (Milton Nascimento) – 5:18
“Beauty and the Beast” (Wayne Shorter) – 5:04
“Tarde” (Fernando Brant, Nascimento) – 5:49
“Miracle of the Fishes” (Brant, Nascimento) – 4:48
“Diana” (Shorter) – 3:04
“From the Lonely Afternoons” (Brant, Nascimento) – 3:15
“Ana Maria” (Shorter) – 5:10
“Lilia” (Nascimento) – 7:03
“Joanna’s Theme” (Herbie Hancock) – 4:17

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Personnel:
Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone
Milton Nascimento – guitar, vocals
David Amaro – guitar
Jay Graydon – guitar
Herbie Hancock – piano, keyboards
Wagner Tiso – organ, piano
Dave McDaniel – bass
Roberto Silva – drums
Airto Moreira – percussion

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Released: September 12, 1974
Recorded: 1974
Los Angeles, CA
Length: 41:41
Label: Columbia
Producer: Jim Price, Nedra Neal