Native Dancer (studio album) by Wayne Shorter
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Native Dancer is ranked 11th best out of 22 albums by Wayne Shorter on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Wayne Shorter is Speak No Evil which is ranked number 1500 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,153.
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Native Dancer track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Native Dancer rankings
All 16 charts that this album appears in:
Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 71/100 | 2 |
2025 | ![]() | Top 68 Music Albums of 1975 | 62/68 | 1 |
2025 | stangetzaway | Top 52 Music Albums of 1975 | 43/52 | 1 |
2025 | byuzak | Top 55 Music Albums of 1975 | 40/55 | 1 |
2024 | Steppenwolf666 | 1975 5TH 100 | 22/100 | - |
2024 | ![]() | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 32/100 | 3 |
2024 | ![]() | Top 69 Music Albums of 1975 | 47/69 | 2 |
2024 | ![]() | Top 61 Music Albums of 1975 | 42/61 | 2 |
2023 | Hyggevinyl | Top 61 Music Albums of 1975 | 16/61 | 4 |
2023 | ![]() | Top 40 Music Albums of 1975 | 40/40 | 0 |
2022 | uDiscoverMusic | The Best Albums Of 1975 | 37/67 | 2 |
2022 | ![]() | 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (part 8) | 86/100 | - |
2019 | ![]() | Wayne Shorter Albums Ranked | 13/20 | - |
2019 | ![]() | My Top Jazz Albums of 1975 | 36/40 | - |
2015 | sonicdiscourse | 1975 To-Do List | 94/100 | - |
2014 | ![]() | Top 40 Music Albums of 1974 | 28/40 | - |
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 16 | |||
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 17 |
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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75/100 ![]() | 01/17/2025 21:47 | ![]() | ![]() | 81/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 03/06/2023 10:04 | ![]() | ![]() | 69/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 03/02/2023 23:35 | LosWochos | ![]() | 75/100 |
80/100 ![]() | 12/25/2022 08:08 | Hyggevinyl | ![]() | 73/100 |
80/100 ![]() | 05/15/2022 15:43 | ![]() | ![]() | 88/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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More than half of the tracks were written and sung by Milton Nascimento, and those are the highlights of this cult classic jazz record. It's very interesting to compare "Miracle of the Fishes" with its counterpart "Milagre dos Peixes", in the album of the same name (which is better than this one, by the way) released by Milton in the same year.
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