Herbie Hancock–Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Philharmonie im Gasteig

Filmed at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in 1991, this set brings together four musicians whose shared history helped shape modern jazz. Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock lead the quartet through music that moves effortlessly between lyric introspection and open, exploratory swing, with Stanley Clarke and Omar Hakim providing a rhythm section of rare flexibility. The repertoire ranges from Mingus’s elegiac "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" and Monk’s nocturnal "'Round Midnight" to Shorter and Hancock classics such as "Virgo Rising", "The Sorcerer" and "Maiden Voyage". Relaxed, alert and deeply conversational, it’s a meeting of master improvisers playing with the ease that comes from long familiarity and shared imagination.