Wayne Shorter
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Wayne Shorter

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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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Films Featuring Wayne Shorter

Weather Report Live In Tokyo

1984

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

1988

Santana: Supernatural Live

20007.0

Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

20047.0

Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978

19784.5

Weather Report: Live in Berlin

1975

Michel Petrucciani Power of Three

Michel Petrucciani Power of Three

4.2

Santana: In Concert

2005

Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne

20116.0

Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne

Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne

20108.5

Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969

Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th

2010

Elis & Tom: It Had to be You

20237.9

Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969

2013

Miles Davis: Around Midnight

2011

The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994

The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994

19944.8

Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions

Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions

1987

Jaco

20157.5

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

20197.1

Miles Ahead

20166.4

Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac

7.5

Weather Report - Live 1971 TV

Weather Report - Live 1971 TV

Chasing Trane

20177.3

Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind

20035.9

The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project

1990

Weather Report: Live at Montreux

19768.0

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

20196.7

I Called Him Morgan

20167.1

The World According to John Coltrane

19904.0

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

20188.1

Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971

1971

Marcus

20156.0

Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja

19996.6

Universe

2020

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

20128.0

Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969

2010

Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996

199610.0

Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964

1964

Before Midnight

19864.0

Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969

Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)

1987

Love Crimes

19924.3