"Jazz album of the month" - "Although it attempts to make a concept-package out of elements that don't really add up to one - three discs (...) linked to a vividly illustrated graphic novel based on Shorter's rather clunky dystopia-to-utopia storyline - "Emanon" is nonetheless another invaluable chronicle of the star's late-career music-making. On a four-part suite joining Shorter's terrific quartet and a chamber orchestra, his soprano saxophone weaves and slithers around Danilo Perez's piano variations and the orchestra's triplet-busy waltzes, and swoops on Prometheus Unbound and the restless multi-melodic shifts and free-jazz exchanges of Lotus. Shorter's classic The Three Marias gets a teasing, now-you-hear-it-now-you-don't orchestral treatment, but the quartet version is less crowded and more intriguing ... Quartet accounts of She Moves Through the Fair (though Fairport Convention fans might not recognise it) and Prometheus Unbound are sublimely thrilling exercises in collective spontaneity"