"Without a Net" is Shorter's first album for Blue Note Records in 43 years after "Odyssey of Iska" released in 1971. The album contains eight quartet tracks from its European tour in late 2011, including six original compositions, plus a 23-minute centrepiece "Pegasus" supported by the woodwind and brass ensemble Imani Winds. The composition "Orbits" is a new version of the Miles Davis Quintet’s 1967 song of the same name. For "Orbits" the album won 2014 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo. The quartet also included the title song from the 1933 musical film "Flying Down to Rio".