Tonight's Jazz Feature is in effect our final tribute to the passing of saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter. The album is by Miles Davis and "The Second Great Quintet" with Miles Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and the young master drummer, Tony Williams. The album represents the Quintet at a creative peak and as the band was very busy with engagements, it was the right time to enter the recording studio. The album was done in New York in June and July 1967. Three of the compositions are by Wayne Shorter and it's his compositions and concepts that kept the band very fresh. Wayne wrote "Nefertiti", "Fall" and "Pinocchio" and Hancock wrote "Riot" and "Madness" and Tony Williams wrote "Hand Jive". All in all a very important document by one of the finest ensembles in Jazz History and tonight's Jazz Feature.

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