Wayne Shorter
Acting
Born 1933-08-25
Died 2023-03-02
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
49 credits
NEA Jazz Masters 1
Doris Duke Performing Artist Award 1
Guggenheim Fellowship 1
Awards
Won 1 NEA Jazz Masters Award
NEA Jazz Masters 1 won
- — NEA Jazz Masters Won
Doris Duke Performing Artist Award 1 won
- — Doris Duke Performing Artist Award Won
Guggenheim Fellowship 1 won
- 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship Won
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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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Filmography
Acting
40 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Great Performances
Classic Albums
The Kennedy Center Honors
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Miles Ahead
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
Chasing Trane
Love Crimes
Santana: In Concert
Jaco
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
Before Midnight
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Santana: Supernatural Live
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
I Called Him Morgan
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
Marcus
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
The World According to John Coltrane
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
Other credits
9 credits
Universe
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
esperanza spalding: Homage to Wayne Shorter @ Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2023
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
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