Track Listing

1. Ponta de Areia
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Tarde
4. Miracle of the Fishes
5. Diana
6. From the Lonely Afternoons
7. Ana Maria
8. Lilia
9. Joanna's Theme

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70739 in Music
• Released on: 1990-04-20
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

So good it hurts
1979... I'm sitting in a partial differential equations class... some guy sitting next to me is so out of it, he's listening to a tape on his walkman. I ask for a listen. I put on the earphones and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS BEAUTIFUL SOUND? WHERE DID IT COME FROM?! It was Native Dancer, and though it took me some time to buy a copy for myself, the piercing clarity of Milton Nascimento's voice and Wayne Shorter's sax never faded from my memory. Now of course I've listened to these 10 tracks hundreds of times but I'm still just as fascinated. This is a masterpiece, a rare and electrifying summit of Brazilian pop with American jazz that somehow -- and god knows this dosn't happen very often -- makes both of them more focused and brilliant.

Timeless Beautiful Soulful Music
Wayne Shorter is one of the great musicians of his generation. And Native Dancer is one of the finest and most beautiful works ever pressed into vinyl or burned into a disc. This is an all time great, a must for any admirer of Shorter or superstar Milton Nascimento.
Smart, incisive, Shorter plays with a measured balance of heart and head. His earliest music chronicles a young man's attempt to first sound as good as Coltrane, then with age, like himself. Shorter is one of those horn players instantly recognizeable. I heard Native Dancer for the first time as a freshman at college. I was a Shorter fan by then, both the early SHorter (Juju, Speak No Evil, etc.), as well as the later Weather Report work. I loved Airto, and played his Fingers album 24/7 when that came out.
But Native Dancer which includes Herbie Hancock playing with untouchable virtuosity and Milton singing all over the octaves, and Shorter's soprano sax loving, laughing, weeping -- well, it doesn't get much better. The music here goes deeply to one's soul..
It's odd. I don't speak a word of Portuguese, but everytime I hear Tarde -- and I've heard it a thousand times -- the words and the music break my heart.
Buy this cd.

Classic American-Brazilian Exchange
What a breakthrough album this was back in 1975, with its incredible meeting of musical minds: Wayne Shorter, Milton Nascimento, Herbie Hancock, Airto and others. Some excellent background information on this album (plus on Milton and Airto) is provided in the book "The Brazilian Sound," which is recommended to all fans of jazz and Brazilian music.