The All Seeing Eye

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  1965

  James

  Shorter pushes post-bop composition toward abstraction and spiritual intensity without losing structural coherence. The larger ensemble arrangements create dense, shifting textures on tracks like “Genesis” and the title piece. Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, and Grachan Moncur III all contribute strongly to the album’s dramatic atmosphere. The music feels searching and unsettled rather than comfortably resolved. Shorter treats composition as philosophical exploration as much as musical form. It’s one of Blue Note’s most ambitious mid-1960s sessions.