Actor

Wayne Shorter

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Movies: 37Series: 5Crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 121668

IMDb ID: nm0795147

Known for: Acting

Born: August 25, 1933

Died: March 2, 2023

Age: 89

Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1964 - 2023

Years active: 60

Average TMDB rating: 6.49

Wikidata: Q317161

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Music (1)Original Music Composer (1)

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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 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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