Wayne Shorter

Known for ActingBorn 1933-08-25Died 2023-03-02Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity

Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

Elis & Tom: It Had to be You

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

Weather Report: Live at Montreux

Classic Albums

Jaco

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Chasing Trane

I Called Him Morgan

The Kennedy Center Honors

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

Santana: Supernatural Live

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja

Miles Ahead

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Marcus

Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne

Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind

Great Performances

The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994

Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978

Love Crimes

The World According to John Coltrane

Before Midnight

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

Universe

Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969

Miles Davis: Around Midnight

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th

Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969

Santana: In Concert

The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project

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

Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions

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

Weather Report Live In Tokyo

Weather Report: Live in Berlin

Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971

Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964

Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac

Michel Petrucciani Power of Three

Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969

Weather Report - Live 1971 TV