Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became the primary composer. In 1964 he joined Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1970. He recorded more than 20 albums as a bandleader.

Many Shorter compositions have become jazz standards. His music earned worldwide recognition, critical praise, universal commendation, and 12 Grammy Awards. He was acclaimed for his mastery of the soprano saxophone since switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s, and began an extended reign in 1970 as DownBeat's annual poll-winner on that instrument, winning the critics' poll for 10 consecutive years and the readers' for 18. The New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff described Shorter in 2008 as "probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser". In 2017, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize.

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Known For
Acting
Born
August 25, 1933
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
March 2, 2023 age 89
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1984

Weather Report Live In Tokyo

1988

Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival

2000

Santana: Supernatural Live

2004

Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

1978

Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978

1975

Weather Report: Live in Berlin

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Michel Petrucciani Power of Three

2005

Santana: In Concert

2011

Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne

2010

Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne

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Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969

2010

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th

2023

Elis & Tom: It Had to be You

2013

Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969

2011

Miles Davis: Around Midnight

1994

The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994

1987

Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions

2015

Jaco

2019

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

2016

Miles Ahead

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Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac

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Weather Report - Live 1971 TV

2017

Chasing Trane

2003

Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind

1990

The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project

1976

Weather Report: Live at Montreux

2019

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

2016

I Called Him Morgan

1990

The World According to John Coltrane

2018

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

1971

Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971

2015

Marcus

1999

Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja

2020

Universe

2012

The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet

2010

Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969

1996

Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

1964

Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964

1986

Before Midnight

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Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969

1987

Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)

2023

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

2023

Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity

2023

The Kennedy Center Honors

2023

Classic Albums

2023

Great Performances

2020

Universe

2023

esperanza spalding: Homage to Wayne Shorter @ Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2023

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