''Phantom Navigator'' is the seventeenth album by

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

saxophonist

Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davi ...

, that was released on Columbia in 1986.

Reception

The

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review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 1.5 stars stating "On a sheer technical level, Wayne's soprano and tenor work is alright, yet on "Yamanja" he does a depressingly mechanical sounding turn on a lyricon. Pass this right by."Ginell, R
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Track listing

All compositions by Wayne Shorter. # "Condition Red" – 5:08 # "Mahogany Bird" – 6:10 # "Remote Control" – 7:55 # "Yamanja" – 6:28 # "Forbidden, Plan-It!" – 6:09 # "Flagships" – 6:35

Personnel

Musicians *

– soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone (1, 3, 5, 6),

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(4) * Erik Hansen – synthesizer programming * Paul Heckert – additional synthesizer programming *

Mitchel Forman Mitchel Forman (born January 24, 1956) is a jazz and fusion keyboard player. Biography and music career Mitchel Forman began studying classical piano at the age of seven. At 17 he entered the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) for three years of st ...

– synthesizers (1), acoustic piano (4, 6), additional keyboards (4, 6) *

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...

– acoustic piano (2) *

Stu Goldberg Stuart Wayne "Stu" Goldberg (born July 10, 1954 in Malden, Massachusetts) is an American jazz keyboardist. Goldberg was born in Massachusetts but raised in Seattle, and played with Ray Brown at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1971. He attended t ...

– synthesizers (2, 4, 5, 6), additional keyboards (3) *

Jim Beard James Arthur Beard (born August 26, 1960 in Philadelphia) is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer who has worked with Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Mike Stern, Dennis Chambers ...

– synthesizers (3, 5) *

Jeff Bova Jeff Bova (born Jeffrey Bova in 1953) is an American musician. He has been active in the music industry since the mid-1970s, contributing to recordings by significant mainstream artists like Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Blondie, Eric Clapton, ...

– synthesizers (3) *

Gary Willis Gary Willis (born 28 March 1957) is an American bassist and composer known foremost as the co-founder (with Scott Henderson) of the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech. Aside from his work in Tribal Tech, Willis has worked with numerous other jazz musici ...

– bass guitar (1), electric bass (2) *

John Patitucci John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz bassist and composer. Biography John James Patitucci was born in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 12, he bought his first bass and decided on his career. He listened to bass parts in R ...

–

acoustic bass The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar a ...

(2), bass guitar (4, 5) *

Alphonso Johnson Alphonso Johnson (born February 2, 1951) is an American jazz bassist active since the early 1970s. Johnson was a member of the jazz fusion group Weather Report from 1973 to 1975, and has performed and recorded with numerous high-profile rock and ...

– bass guitar (3) * Tom Brechtlein – drums (1) * Jimmy Bralower – drums (3), percussion programming (3) * Scott Roberts – percussion (2, 4, 5, 6), drum programming (4, 5) *

Bill Summers Bill Summers may refer to: * Bill Summers (car builder) (1935–2011), American car builder and longtime speed record holder * Bill Summers (musician) (born 1948), American jazz percussionist *Bill Summers (umpire) William Reed Summers (November ...

– percussion (2, 4, 5), drum programming (4, 5) * Ana Maria Shorter – intro vocals (4) * Gregor Goldberg – vocals (6) Production * Wayne Shorter – producer, illustration * George Butler – executive producer * K2 – co-producer, engineer, mixing * Duncan Aldrich – assistant engineer (1, 2, 4, 5, 6) *

Gary Duncan Gary Duncan (born Eugene Duncan, Jr., adopted at birth and named Gary Ray Grubb, September 4, 1946 – June 29, 2019) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver M ...

– assistant engineer (1, 2, 4, 5, 6) * Steve Krause – mix assistant (1, 2, 4, 5, 6) * Michael Christopher – assistant engineer (3) *

Bob Ludwig Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Qu ...

– mastering * Nancy Donald – art direction *

Tony Lane Anthony Samuel Lane (May 2, 1944 – January 1, 2016) began his career as an assistant to Alexey Brodovitch at Harper's Bazaar, and became an early art director for Rolling Stone magazine. He was the designer of iconic album covers for Simon & Garf ...

– art direction * Jean-Francois Podevin – illustration Studios * Recorded and Mixed at The Power Station (New York City, New York) and Mad Hatter Studios (Los Angeles, California). * Mastered at

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(New York City, New York).

References

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