Wayne Shorter
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-08-25
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.
Also Known For
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
Dec 18, 1984
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Jul 14, 1988
Santana: Supernatural Live
Jan 01, 2000
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
Jan 26, 2004
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
Sep 29, 1978
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
Nov 06, 1975
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Santana: In Concert
Oct 04, 2005
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
Jul 12, 2011
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
Jun 29, 2010
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
Jul 25, 2010
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
Sep 21, 2023
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
Jan 01, 2013
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
Sep 20, 2011
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
May 20, 1994
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
Nov 17, 1987
Jaco
Mar 17, 2015
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Aug 23, 2019
Miles Ahead
Jan 22, 2016
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
Chasing Trane
Apr 14, 2017
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Apr 03, 2003
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
Jan 01, 1990
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
Jan 11, 1976
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Jun 14, 2019
I Called Him Morgan
Sep 05, 2016
The World According to John Coltrane
Jan 01, 1990
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Jul 02, 2018
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
Jun 22, 1971
Marcus
Jan 24, 2015
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Oct 21, 1999
Universe
Jun 10, 2020
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Nov 03, 2012
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
Aug 31, 2010
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
Jul 08, 1996
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
Oct 11, 1964
Before Midnight
Jan 01, 1986
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
Jul 26, 1987
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Apr 20, 2015
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
Aug 24, 2023
The Kennedy Center Honors
Dec 28, 1978
Classic Albums
Apr 14, 1997
