Wayne Shorter
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
46
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-08-25
Day of death
2023-03-02 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Wayne Shorter
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wayne Shorter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Great Performances
Classic Albums
The Kennedy Center Honors
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Universe
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
The World According to John Coltrane
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Jaco
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
I Called Him Morgan
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
Santana: In Concert
Miles Ahead
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
Chasing Trane
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
Santana: Supernatural Live
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
Before Midnight
Marcus
