Wayne Shorter
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
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.
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Known For
Acting
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
as Himself
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
as Themself
(2023)
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
as Self
(2020)
(2019)
(2019)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician
(2018)
(2017)
Chasing Trane
as Self - Musician
(2016)
Miles Ahead
as Live Concert Band
(2016)
I Called Him Morgan
as Self
(2015)
Marcus
as Self
(2015)
Jaco
as Self
(2013)
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
as himself
(2012)
(2011)
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
as Saxophone (Tenor)
(2011)
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself
(2010)
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself
(2010)
(2010)
(2005)
Santana: In Concert
as Self - Saxophone
(2004)
(2003)
(2000)
Santana: Supernatural Live
as Self
(1999)
(1996)
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
as Saxophone
(1994)
(1990)
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
as Sax soprano
(1990)
The World According to John Coltrane
as Himself
(1988)
(1987)
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
as Himself
(1986)
Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
(1984)
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
as himself
(1978)
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
as Himself
(1976)
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
as Saxophones
(1975)
(1971)
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
as Himself
(1964)
Crew
(2023)
esperanza spalding: Homage to Wayne Shorter @ Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2023
Original Music Composer
(2020)
Universe
Music