Wayne Shorter
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician 2019
Chasing Trane
as Self - Musician 2017
I Called Him Morgan
as Self 2016
Jaco
as Self 2015
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
as Self 2019
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
as Self 2023
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
as Self 1999
Santana: Supernatural Live
as Self 2000
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
as Self 2018
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
as Self 2003
Marcus
as Self 2015
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
2004
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
TBA
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
as Himself 1978
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
as Himself TBA
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself 2010