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Where to start with Wayne Shorter
Start with Capricorn — Super Nova, 1969. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 36 Wayne Shorter tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 36 Wayne Shorter tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 36 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
It is spread thin and wide — 36 tracks across 17 different records, which is a browsing history rather than a shelf of favourites.
The energy knob swings 50 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Capricorn — Super Nova, 1969. Of the 36 Wayne Shorter tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
When You Dream — Atlantis. The lowest energy reading of any Wayne Shorter track in the room (22 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Super Nova — Super Nova. The highest energy reading here, at 72 out of 100 — a 50-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Wayne Shorter sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Wayne Shorter's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| High Life | — | 5 |
| Alegria | — | 4 |
| Atlantis | — | 4 |
| Super Nova | — | 3 |
| Adam's Apple | — | 3 |
| Speak No Evil | — | 2 |
| Emanon | — | 2 |
| Without A Net | — | 2 |
| Etcetera | 1980 | 2 |
| Footprints Live! | — | 2 |
| Night Dreamer | — | 1 |
| Beyond The Sound Barrier | — | 1 |
| Joy Ryder | — | 1 |
| Odyssey of Iska | — | 1 |
| JuJu | — | 1 |
| Phantom Navigator | — | 1 |
| Schizophrenia | — | 1 |
Every Wayne Shorter track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Capricorn | Super Nova | 1969 |
| Barracudas (General Assembly) | Etcetera | 1980 |
| Penelope | Etcetera | 1980 |
| Water Babies | Super Nova | 1988 |
| Adams Apple | Adam's Apple | — |
| Chief Crazy Horse | Adam's Apple | — |
| Teru | Adam's Apple | — |
| 12th Century Carol | Alegria | — |
| Sacajwea | Alegria | — |
| Serenata | Alegria | — |
| She Moves Through The Fair | Alegria | — |
| Atlantis | Atlantis | — |
| Crianças | Atlantis | — |
| Shere Khan, the Tiger | Atlantis | — |
| When You Dream | Atlantis | — |
| Adventures Aboard The Golden Mean | Beyond The Sound Barrier | — |
| Prometheus Unbound feat. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Emanon | — |
| The Three Marias | Emanon | — |
| Atlantis (Live) | Footprints Live! | — |
| Go | Footprints Live! | — |
| At The Fair | High Life | — |
| Black Swan | High Life | — |
| High Life | High Life | — |
| Maya | High Life | — |
| Midnight In Carlotta's Hair | High Life | — |
| Joy Ryder | Joy Ryder | — |
| Deluge | JuJu | — |
| Black Nile | Night Dreamer | — |
| Calm | Odyssey of Iska | — |
| Condition Rec | Phantom Navigator | — |
| Tom Thumb | Schizophrenia | — |
| Dance Cadaverous | Speak No Evil | — |
| Speak No Evil | Speak No Evil | — |
| Super Nova | Super Nova | — |
| Orbits (false start) | Without A Net | — |
| S.S. Golden Mean | Without A Net | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Wayne Shorter's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with John Coltrane — bebop, 22 tracks
- Where to start with Jack DeJohnette — jazz, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Counting Crows — roots rock, 22 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Wayne Shorter as a solo artist, from the United States and born in 1933. Its contributors tag the artist crossover jazz, progressive jazz, post-bop, modal jazz and jazz. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Wayne Shorter tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 36, across 17 albums. 4 of them carry a date, running from 1969 to 1988. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 36 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 36 of these 36 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.