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Wayne Shorter had already achieved great success with audiences and received extremely positive reviews for his first albums for Blue Note, including tracks that would become timeless classics of the jazz discography, such as “Night Dreamer”, “JuJu” and “Speak No Evil” when the American label released “Adam's Apple” in 1966. Thanks in part to the contributions of pianist Herbie Hancock, double bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Joe Chambers, the album immediately went down in Blue Note history as the saxophonist's greatest recording ever and one of the highlights of the fruitful post-bop era. Allaboutjazz wrote: “Adam's Apple is at least as good as anything else in Shorter's Blue Note catalog, which means it's excellent. Another listenable record in a long line of listenable records.”
Shorter wrote five of the six pieces on the album. Highlights of this extraordinary album include the lively title track, the moving “502 Blues (Drinkin‘ And Drivin’)” by Jimmy Rowles, “El Gaucho”, a Shorter-composed track with bossa influences, the delicate ballad “Teru” and the first recording of his immortal composition “Footprints”, which Shorter would re-record a few months later with Miles Davis' quintet for the album “Miles Smiles”. The album ends with the very moving “Chief Crazy Horse”, which is characteristic of Shorter's harmonious interweaving and features a brilliant solo by Chambers.
As part of the extremely popular “Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series” Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as “Tone Poet” and “Classic Vinyl” – as a limited Japan only UHQCD with OBI stripe. The original recording sessions for “Adam's Apple” took place on February 3 and 24, 1966 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
1. Adam's Apple2. 502 Blues (Drinkin’ And Drivin’)3. El Gaucho4. Footprints5. Teru6. Chief Crazy Horse