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, and his music has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise, and commendation. Shorter won 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 beginning 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.
Filmography
all 42
Movies 37
self 30
TV Shows 5
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You (2023)
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity (2023)
Universe (2020)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2019)
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story (2018)
Chasing Trane (2017)
I Called Him Morgan (2016)
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson (2015)
Jaco (2015)
Marcus (2015)
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969 (2013)
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet (2012)
Miles Davis: Around Midnight (2011)
Tribute to Miles - Jazz a Vienne (2011)
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969 (2010)
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th (2010)
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne (2010)
Miles Davis, So What (2008)
Santana: In Concert (2005)
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux (2004)
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind (2003)
Santana: Supernatural Live (2000)
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja (1999)
Classic Albums (1997)
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996 (1996)
The Great Music Experience - Nara City Japan 1994 (1994)
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project (1990)
The World According to John Coltrane (1990)
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1988)
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions (1987)
Weather Report Live In Tokyo (1984)
The Kennedy Center Honors (1978)
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978 (1978)
Weather Report: Live at Montreux (1976)
Weather Report: Live in Berlin (1975)
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971 (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964 (1964)
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
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GenderMale
Birthday1933-08-25
Deathday2023-03-02 (89 years old)
Birth PlaceNewark, United States of America
ReligionSoka Gakkai
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, NEA Jazz Masters
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