Sorcerer

An essential album from the Second Great Quintet that perfectly captures the group's enigmatic and elusive quality in its final phase. The compositions, mostly by Wayne Shorter, are quick and slippery, inspiring improvisations that are marvels of tension and suggestion. It's a key example of the quintet's 'controlled freedom,' a highly sophisticated and adventurous evolution of post-bop that was more concerned with mood and subtlety than with overt fire.