Wayne Shorter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 25, 1933
- Died
- March 2, 2023 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wayne Shorter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Movie · as Himself
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
Movie · as Self
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
Movie
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
Movie · as Themself
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
Movie · as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
Movie · as Self
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Universe
Movie
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie · as Self - Musician
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Movie · as Self
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Movie · as Self
Chasing Trane
Movie · as Self - Musician
Miles Ahead
Movie · as Live Concert Band
I Called Him Morgan
Movie · as Self
Jaco
Movie · as Self
Marcus
Movie · as Self
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
Movie · as himself
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Movie
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
Movie · as Himself
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
Movie · as Saxophone (Tenor)
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
Movie · as Himself
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
Movie · as himself
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
Movie
Santana: In Concert
Movie · as Self - Saxophone
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
Movie
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Movie · as Self
Santana: Supernatural Live
Movie · as Self
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Movie · as Self
Classic Albums
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
Movie · as Saxophone
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
Movie · as Self
Love Crimes
Movie · as Jazz Quartet
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
Movie · as Sax soprano
The World According to John Coltrane
Movie · as Himself
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Movie · as Himself
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
Movie · as Himself
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
Movie
Before Midnight
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
Movie · as himself
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
Movie · as Himself
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
Movie · as Saxophones
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
Movie
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
Movie · as Himself
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
Movie