ONMO

Wayne Shorter, a Newark-born, NYU-educated, film and comic book enthusiast, combines prodigious talent with a childlike interest in the world.

His compositions are sphinx-like, filled with idiosyncratic rhythms and surprising harmonies, and require even the greatest jazz musicians to consider how best to navigate the unexpected difficulties of his music.

Shorter’s eventual addition to Davis’ group would provide the missing piece for the Second Great Quintet, an ensemble that arguably stretched the possibilities of the straight-ahead jazz combo as far as they could go.

His flexible musicianship allows him to effortlessly play bebop, fit seamlessly into jazz-rock and Brazilian-inspired contexts, and create some of the most captivating small group music of the modern jazz scene.

ONMO, fronted by Jean de Talhouët, will honour Shorter’s body of work with a bespoke 90 minute show that traverses the great man’s wide ranging styles and sounds.