Wayne Shorter
Birthday
1933/08/25
Day of death
2023/03/02 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Also know as
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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 rec...Read more
Acting
(1984) Weather Report Live In Tokyo
as himself
(1988) Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
as Himself
(2000) Santana: Supernatural Live
as Self
(2004) Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
as ---
(1978) Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
as Himself
(1975) Weather Report: Live in Berlin
as ---
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
as Himself
(2005) Santana: In Concert
as Self - Saxophone
(2011) Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself
(2010) Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
as Himself
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
as Self
(2010) Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
as himself
(2023) Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
as Self
(2013) Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
as himself
(2011) Miles Davis: Around Midnight
as Saxophone (Tenor)
(1994) The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
as Self
(1987) Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
as Himself
(2015) Jaco
as Self
(2019) Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician
(2016) Miles Ahead
as Live Concert Band
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
as ---
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
as Themself
(2017) Chasing Trane
as Self - Musician
(2003) Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
as Self
(1990) The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
as Sax soprano
(1976) Weather Report: Live at Montreux
as Saxophones
(2019) Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
as Self
(2016) I Called Him Morgan
as Self
(1990) The World According to John Coltrane
as Himself
(2018) It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
as Self
(1971) Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
as Himself
(2015) Marcus
as Self
(1999) Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
as Self
(2020) Universe
as ---
(2012) The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
as ---
(2010) Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
as ---
(1996) Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
as Saxophone
(1964) Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
as ---
(1986) Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
as Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
(1987) Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
as ---
(2015) StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
as Self
(2023) Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
as Self
(1978) The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
(1997) Classic Albums
as Self
(1971) Great Performances
as Self