Fall is a jazz composition by Wayne Shorter that first appeared on Miles Davis’s 1968 album Nefertiti. The Miles Davis Quintet, with Shorter on tenor sax, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums, crafts the enigmatic melody and stop-start rhythm that define the tune. A staple of post-bop, Fall has been widely covered and reinterpreted, including a 2016 version on Greg Murphy’s Summer Breeze that features Shorter. The piece exemplifies Shorter’s lyrical yet angular approach to harmony and remains a jazz standard.
