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Name
Wayne Shorter

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1933-08-25

Deathday
2023-03-02 (90 years old)

Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

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

Movies

Tv Shows

1984 Weather Report Live In Tokyo as himself
1988 Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival as Himself
2000 Santana: Supernatural Live as Self
2004 Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
1978 Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978 as Himself
1975 Weather Report: Live in Berlin
Soon Michel Petrucciani Power of Three as Himself
2005 Santana: In Concert as Self - Saxophone
2011 Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne as Himself
2010 Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne as Himself
Soon Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969 as Self
2010 Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th as himself
2023 Elis & Tom: It Had to be You as Self
2013 Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969 as himself
2011 Miles Davis: Around Midnight as Saxophone (Tenor)
1994 The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994 as Self
1987 Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions as Himself
2015 Jaco as Self
2019 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Self - Musician
2016 Miles Ahead as Live Concert Band
Soon Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
Soon Weather Report - Live 1971 TV as Themself
2017 Chasing Trane as Self - Musician
2003 Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind as Self
1990 The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project as Sax soprano
1976 Weather Report: Live at Montreux as Saxophones
2019 Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes as Self
2016 I Called Him Morgan as Self
1990 The World According to John Coltrane as Himself
2018 It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story as Self
1971 Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971 as Himself
2015 Marcus as Self
1999 Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja as Self
2020 Universe
2012 The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
2010 Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
1996 Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996 as Saxophone
1964 Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
1986 Before Midnight as Self (archive footage)
Soon Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969 as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
1987 Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
1992 Love Crimes as Jazz Quartet

2015 StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson ( 1 episode ) as Self
2023 Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity ( 3 episodes ) as Self
1978 The Kennedy Center Honors ( 1 episode ) as Self
1997 Classic Albums ( 1 episode ) as Self
1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest

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