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

    Great Performances

  • The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994

    The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994

  • Classic Albums

    Classic Albums

  • The Kennedy Center Honors

    The Kennedy Center Honors

  • Universe

    Universe

  • It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

    It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

  • Jaco

    Jaco

  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

  • Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969

    Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969

  • Chasing Trane

    Chasing Trane

  • StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

    StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Miles Ahead

    Miles Ahead

  • Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969

    Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969

  • Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

    Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

  • Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind

    Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind

  • Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions

    Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions

  • Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

    Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

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

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

  • Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969

    Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969

  • I Called Him Morgan

    I Called Him Morgan

  • Weather Report: Live in Berlin

    Weather Report: Live in Berlin

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

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

  • Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac

    Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac

  • Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th

    Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th

  • Weather Report: Live at Montreux

    Weather Report: Live at Montreux

  • Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

    Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

  • Miles Davis: Around Midnight

    Miles Davis: Around Midnight

  • Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971

    Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971

  • Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity

    Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity

  • Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne

    Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne

  • Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978

    Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978

  • Santana: In Concert

    Santana: In Concert

  • Weather Report Live In Tokyo

    Weather Report Live In Tokyo

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

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

  • Michel Petrucciani Power of Three

    Michel Petrucciani Power of Three

  • Santana: Supernatural Live

    Santana: Supernatural Live

  • Weather Report - Live 1971 TV

    Weather Report - Live 1971 TV

  • Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja

    Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja

  • Elis & Tom: It Had to be You

    Elis & Tom: It Had to be You

  • The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project

    The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project

  • Before Midnight

    Before Midnight

  • Marcus

    Marcus

  • The World According to John Coltrane

    The World According to John Coltrane

  • Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964

    Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964

  • Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969

    Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969

  • Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne

    Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne