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Formats and Editions
1. Juju
2. Deluge
3. House of Jade
4. Mahjong
5. Yes or No
6. Twelve Bars More to Go
7. Juju - (alternate take, bonus track)
8. House of Jade - (alternate take, bonus track)
9. Forever Love, Forever This
10. Jesus Peace
11. Love, The God Kind
12. Just Us First
13. Just Her (Still)
14. I Like You... Why?
15. God's Express Lane
16. Love Eternal
17. Generation Next (Gods Offer To You)
18. God Made Man
19. He Said, God Said
20. From The Heart And Soul
21. A Transcendent Eternity
22. Eternity In Your Eyes
23. Escape The Fall
24. He Lives
25. I Do Know Who
26. Thee Enigma
27. The Love Walk
28. Unspeakable Joy
29. Just A Foot Soldier
30. Watching Big Brother
31. The Heartbeat Of God (Feat. Gail Brooke Hallman)
More Info:
When Wayne Shorter recorded this date in 1964, he was asserting his own voice as both a saxophonist and a composer after his years with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He's joined here by pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones, essential parts of the then dominant John Coltrane Quartet, but Juju serves to emphasize what was distinctive in Shorter's approach as well as the similarities. Though he shared something of Coltrane's twisting line and hard sound, Shorter was far more interested in crafting conventional compositions, and there's a range of everyday emotions to be felt in this music that went untouched in Coltrane's more intense work. Shorter's a master of tension and release, using contrasting elements in a piece, mixing major and minor, consonance and dissonance, and different rhythms to evoke complex moods of doubt and playfulness or constraint and joyous swing. Those structures are a happy fit with Tyner and Jones as well, who can bring their characteristic welling intensity to "Juju," a relaxed bounce to "Yes or No," or a subtle oriental emphasis to "House of Jade."
