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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 25, 1933
Died
March 2, 2023
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Wayne Shorter
1.1 Popularity
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
8.0
Self
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
2023
8.6
Self
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
2023
0.0
Universe
2020
7.2
Self - Musician
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
6.9
Self
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
2019
8.2
Self
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
2018
7.2
Self - Musician
Chasing Trane
2017
7.2
Self
I Called Him Morgan
2016
6.4
Live Concert Band
Miles Ahead
2016
6.6
Self
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015
Credits
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
as Self
2023
8.0
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
as Self
2023
8.6
Universe
2020
0.0
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician
2019
7.2
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
as Self
2019
6.9
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
as Self
2018
8.2
Chasing Trane
as Self - Musician
2017
7.2
I Called Him Morgan
as Self
2016
7.2
Miles Ahead
as Live Concert Band
2016
6.4
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
as Self
2015
6.6
Jaco
as Self
2015
7.5
Marcus
as Self
2015
6.0
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
as himself
2013
0.0
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
2012
8.0
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
as Saxophone (Tenor)
2011
0.0
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself
2011
6.0
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
2010
0.0
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
as himself
2010
0.0
🎬
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself
2010
8.5
Santana: In Concert
as Self - Saxophone
2005
0.0
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
2004
7.0
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
as Self
2003
5.9
Santana: Supernatural Live
as Self
2000
7.0
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
as Self
1999
6.5
Classic Albums
as Self
1997
7.7
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
as Saxophone
1996
10.0
🎬
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
as Self
1994
4.8
The World According to John Coltrane
as Himself
1990
4.0
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
as Sax soprano
1990
0.0
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
as Himself
1988
0.0
🎬
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
as Himself
1987
0.0
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
1987
0.0
Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
1986
4.0
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
as himself
1984
0.0
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
as Himself
1978
4.5
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
as Saxophones
1976
0.0
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
1975
0.0
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
as Himself
1971
0.0
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
1964
0.0
🎬
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
as Themself
N/A
0.0
🎬
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
as Himself
N/A
4.2
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
N/A
0.0
🎬
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
as Self
N/A
0.0
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
N/A
7.5