Acting
Wayne Shorter
IT, DE, FR, EN cinema · 43 credits
Born
25 August 1933
Died
2 March 2023 (aged 89)
Birthplace
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
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
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
esperanza spalding: Homage to Wayne Shorter @ Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2023
Original Music Composer
Universe
Actor, Music
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician
Chasing Trane
as Self - Musician
Miles Ahead
as Live Concert Band
Jaco
as Self
Marcus
as Self
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
as Saxophone (Tenor)
Santana: In Concert
as Self - Saxophone
Love Crimes
as Jazz Quartet
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
1987
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
as Himself
Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
as Saxophones
