Wayne Shorter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 25, 1933
- Died
- Mar 2, 2023 (aged 89)
- Place of birth
- Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
- Credits
- 48
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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Known for
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
Miles Ahead
2016Movie
Live Concert Band
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019Movie
Self - Musician
Chasing Trane
2017Movie
Self - Musician
I Called Him Morgan
2016Movie
Self
Love Crimes
1992Movie
Jazz Quartet
Filmography
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
2023Movie
Self
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
2023TV
Self
Universe
2020Movie
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019Movie
Self - Musician
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
2019Movie
Self
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
2018Movie
Self
Chasing Trane
2017Movie
Self - Musician
I Called Him Morgan
2016Movie
Self
Miles Ahead
2016Movie
Live Concert Band
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015TV
Self
Jaco
2015Movie
Self
Marcus
2015Movie
Self
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
2013Movie
himself
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
2012Movie
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
2011Movie
Saxophone (Tenor)
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
2011Movie
Himself
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
2010Movie
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
2010Movie
himself
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
2010Movie
Himself
Santana: In Concert
2005Movie
Self - Saxophone
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
2004Movie
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
2003Movie
Self
Santana: Supernatural Live
2000Movie
Self
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
1999Movie
Self
Classic Albums
1997TV
Self
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
1996Movie
Saxophone
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
1994Movie
Self
Love Crimes
1992Movie
Jazz Quartet
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
1990Movie
Sax soprano
The World According to John Coltrane
1990Movie
Himself
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
1988Movie
Himself
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
1987Movie
Himself
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
1987Movie
Before Midnight
1986Movie
Self (archive footage)
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
1984Movie
himself
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978TV
Self
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
1978Movie
Himself
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
1976Movie
Saxophones
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
1975Movie
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
1971Movie
Himself
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
1964Movie
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
Movie
Themself
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
Movie
Self
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
Movie
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Movie
Himself
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
Movie