Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1933-08-25
Day of Death
2023-03-02
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.
Filmography (37)
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
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
Miles Ahead
2016
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 à Vienne
2011
