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Wayne Shorter
Acting
Cast
Wayne Shorter
Known for
Acting
Born
1933-08-25
From
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
2023-03-02
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.

Miles Ahead
as Live Concert Band

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician

Love Crimes
as Jazz Quartet

Jaco
as Self

Santana: In Concert
as Self - Saxophone

Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
as Himself

Chasing Trane
as Self - Musician

Weather Report Live In Tokyo
as himself

The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
as Self

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
as Self

Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
as Self

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
as Self

Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)

Marcus
as Self

I Called Him Morgan
as Self

Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
as Himself

Santana: Supernatural Live
as Self

Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux

Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
as Self

The World According to John Coltrane
as Himself

Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone

Miles Davis: Around Midnight
as Saxophone (Tenor)

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

Universe

Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
as Self

Weather Report: Live at Montreux
as Saxophones

Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself

Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964

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

Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
as Himself

Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself

Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969

Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac

Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
as Himself

Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
as himself

Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
as Self

Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
as Saxophone

The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
as Sax soprano

Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
as Themself

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

Weather Report: Live in Berlin

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
as himself