Dream teams of any sort are temporary creations made to fulfill a fan's fantasies, and musical ones do not get any more fantastic than The Quartet. Pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Jack DeJohnette are giants of the jazz world who are about to tour Japan and perform together for the first and perhaps last time.
"It's the kind of band I dream about playing with!" DeJohnette has said.
The tour is dedicated to the late Miles Davis, whom all four played with. Hancock, Shorter and Carter were in the trumpeter's highly touted Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s, before Davis entered his fusion phase, and they, along with drummer Tony Williams, were also mainstays in Davis' second stab at a quintet. On albums such as "Miles Smiles," Shorter composed half the songs, often eschewing a main theme and instead jumping straight into solo passages.