{"id":3574766,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574766/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-06T15:23:01-08:00","show":65038,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65038/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/4edb0647-e195-4101-b496-0f949e14983b/32177355178-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/4edb0647-e195-4101-b496-0f949e14983b/32177355178-250.jpg","song":"Footprints","track_id":null,"recording_id":"4426e9ee-2dba-41d6-a5e9-f88c611ec547","artist":"Wayne Shorter","artist_ids":["2379937f-6e0d-46a2-b8ff-633fafd72002"],"album":"Adam’s Apple","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"6d538c40-c616-32e3-96cf-3d5e3d96c5ad","labels":["Blue Note"],"label_ids":["713c4a95-6616-442b-9cf6-14e1ddfd5946"],"release_date":"1967-10-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Wayne Shorter's composition \"Footprints\" first appeared on the 1966 post-bop album, \"Adam’s Apple,\" on which Shorter joined pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Joe Chambers. \n--\nAnother version of Footprints forms the third track of Miles Davis’ 1967 album, \"Miles Smiles.\" That recording features Shorter with Miles Davis (trumpet), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums).\n--\nJazz commentator Rodney Franks offers the following description:\n\"Although occasionally mistaken for a waltz, the melody alternates between simple and compound time (6 over 8 and 4 over 4), while drum rhythm goes from three-over-two to two-over-two. In this context the 4 over 4 beat is known as “tresillo” in Afro-Cuban music and correlates to the twelve-over-eight timing. “Footprints” incorporates what is possibly the first use of systemic, African-based cross-rhythm. While taking the form of a 12-bar C-minor blues, the melody is actually written in C-Dorian, using A-sharp rather than A-flat.\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}