Shorter, a master of hard bop, fusion and orchestral jazz, will have a Brick City street renamed for him Friday
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022, 9:01 a.m. |To the uninspired eye, it was a vacant lot; a small patch of earth like any other found in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood in the 1940s., a boy of blazing imagination, the plot hidden just beyond the railroad tracks frequently morphed into Mars or the beaches at Normandy. Shorter and his brother Alan — Mr. Weird and Dr. Strange, as they called themselves — would spend hours in the space creating fantastical scenarios.
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