Alegría is a studio album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, released on Verve Records in 2003.
It is the second album to feature the 'Footprints Quartet' of Shorter, pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade.
The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell stated that "this disc seemed to confirm a long-awaited creative Indian summer for Wayne Shorter.
"[2] Similarly, contemporaneous reviews by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times and CMJ New Music Report's Tad Hendrickson happily noted Shorter's return to form.
[4][5] Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman commended both the album's "startling diversity" and the "imaginative, high-flying freedom [that characterizes] Shorter's playing," adding that Alegria offered "convincing testimony to Shorter's undiminished creativity.