Atlantis is the sixteenth album by Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...

. It was released on the Columbia

Columbia Records

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 label in 1985 and was Shorter's first solo album since 1974. The recording is notable in Shorter's body of work both for its relative lack of improvisation and for the high level of its compositions and group arrangements. Rock (backbeat) and latin rhythms are featured on several tracks, as is mixed electric and acoustic instrumentation. The composition "Shere Khan, the Tiger" was previously recorded by a group including Shorter and Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

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 on the latter's 1980 album The Swing of Delight

The Swing of Delight

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. Several of the compositions on this album would continue to feature in Shorter's repertoire well into 2008, most notably the title piece. The cover art for the album is a pastel portrait of Shorter by actor Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams

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.

Track listings

1. "Endangered Species" (Shorter, Joseph Vitarelli) - 4:47
2. "The Three Marias" - 5:48
3. "The Last Silk Hat" - 5:25
4. "When You Dream" (E. Lee, Shorter) - 4:28
5. "Who Goes There!" - 5:29
6. "Atlantis" - 4:34
7. "Shere Khan, the Tiger" - 2:15
8. "Criancas" - 3:40
9. "On the Eve of Departure" - 5:55

All compositions by Wayne Shorter except as indicated

• Recorded in Hollywood, CA, 1985

Personnel

• Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
  
  : soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Jim Walker: flute, alto-flute, piccolo
• Yaron Gershovsky: piano
• Michiko Hill: piano
• Joseph Vitarelli: synthesizer, piano
• Michael Hoenig
  Michael Hoenig
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  : synthesizer programming
• Larry Klein
  Larry Klein
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  : electric bass
• Ralph Humphrey: drums
• Alex Acuña
  Alex Acuña
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  : drums, percussion
• Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro
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  : percussion
• Diana Acuna, Dee Dee Bellson, Nani Brunel, Trove Davenport, Sanaa Larhan, Edgy Lee, Kathy Lucien: vocals