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Introducing Wayne Shorter is the debut album by jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter. It was recorded on November 9 and 10, 1959, at Bell Sound Studios in New York City. It features five Shorter compositions, plus Kurt Weill's "Mack the Knife”, performed by a quintet featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Shorter played with Morgan in the front line of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at this time while Kelly, Chambers and Cobb were the widely celebrated rhythm section with Miles Davis. The album was released in 1960 by Vee-Jay Records, and was also issued later under the title Blues a la Carte. Tracks from this session were included on the 1972 compilation Shorter Moments as well as the 2000 compilation The Complete Vee Jay Lee Morgan-Wayne Shorter Sessions On November 10, Shorter also participated in the recording of the Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers' album Africaine, his first studio session with the Jazz Messengers, which included two of his compositions, one of which was the title track. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introdu...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)