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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wayne Shorter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Miles Ahead (2016)
as Live Concert Band
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
as Self - Musician
Chasing Trane (2017)
as Self - Musician
Universe (2020)
Actor
Love Crimes (1992)
as Jazz Quartet
Before Midnight (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
I Called Him Morgan (2016)
as Self
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978 (1978)
as Himself
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2019)
as Self
Jaco (2015)
as Self
Weather Report Live In Tokyo (1984)
as himself
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story (2018)
as Self
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux (2004)
Actor
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind (2003)
as Self
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994 (1994)
as Self
Santana: In Concert (2005)
as Self - Saxophone
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You (2023)
as Self
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja (1999)
as Self
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions (1987)
as Himself
Santana: Supernatural Live (2000)
as Self
The World According to John Coltrane (1990)
as Himself
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996 (1996)
as Saxophone
Marcus (2015)
as Self
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969 (—)
as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV (—)
as Themself
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet (2012)
Actor
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project (1990)
as Sax soprano
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac (—)
Actor
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964 (1964)
Actor
Miles Davis: Around Midnight (2011)
as Saxophone (Tenor)
Weather Report: Live at Montreux (1976)
as Saxophones
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1988)
as Himself
Weather Report: Live in Berlin (1975)
Actor
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969 (—)
as Self
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne (2011)
as Himself
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969 (2013)
as himself
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971 (1971)
as Himself
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th (2010)
as himself
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special) (1987)
Actor
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne (2010)
as Himself
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three (—)
as Himself
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969 (2010)
Actor