
Wayne Shorter
Department: Acting
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

Weather Report Live In Tokyo
1984

Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
1988

Santana: Supernatural Live
2000

Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
2004

Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
1978

Weather Report: Live in Berlin
1975

Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
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Santana: In Concert
2005

Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
2011

Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
2010

Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
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Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
2010

Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
2023

Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
2013

Miles Davis: Around Midnight
2011

The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
1994

Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
1987

Jaco
2015

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019

Miles Ahead
2016

Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
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Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
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Chasing Trane
2017

Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
2003

The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
1990

Weather Report: Live at Montreux
1976

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
2019

I Called Him Morgan
2016

The World According to John Coltrane
1990

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
2018

Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
1971

Marcus
2015

Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
1999

Universe
2020

The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
2012

Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
2010

Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
1996

Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
1964

Before Midnight
1986

Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
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Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
1987

Love Crimes
1992

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015

Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
2023

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978

Classic Albums
1997

Great Performances
1971