Wayne Shorter

The 12-time Grammy Award-winner was as thoughtful and playful in his multiple interviews with the Union-Tribune as he was in his constantly evolving music.

Beginnings and endings are artificial to me in any book or movie or life; it’s a temporary state of rest.” “I don’t allow statements like that to take me out of my spaceship and pull me off course,” Shorter said. “In that band we had a lot of fun with ‘inconspicuous development,’ ” Shorter said. Shorter recently returned from Paris, where he co-starred in the movie “Round Midnight,” a film based loosely on the life of seminal bop pianist Bud Powell. People have to learn how to tell a story in their own way, and people can usually tell if you’re not telling any story in any way.” “And daily life is what most people are interested in; even when you’re at the movies, you’re a composite of your daily life. Their repertoire combines classic Shorter compositions from the ‘60s such as “Footprints,” “Swee Pea” and “Sanctuary” with selections from his newest release. “It feels good (to be apart), and there’s the possibility that a lot of other doors may open,” Shorter said. “The Beatles had more reason to get back together; a lot of groups have better reasons to get back together. “No, no,” he insisted, at the start of a rare, in-depth interview last week. “And a sub-definition of jazz is: ‘No category’.” “And who, if not thought of as happy at one time, arrived there — not through music — but through arriving at the highest possible life position.

The composer and saxophonist, who won a dozen Grammy Awards and recorded with everyone from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, died on Thursday, March 2 in Los ...

As it is with every human being, he is irreplaceable and was able to reach the pinnacle of excellence as a saxophonist, composer, orchestrator, and recently, composer of the masterful opera '...Iphigenia'. "We have a phrase [in Buddhism]: hom nim yoh," he said in the 2013 NPR interview." His relationship with the iconic Blue Note Records from 1964-1970 resulted in a number of now-classic recordings including Juju (recorded with members of John Coltrane's quartet), Speak No Evil (recorded with two fellow Miles Davis bandmates) and The Soothsayer (featuring fellow Blue Note artist Freddie Hubbard). After studying music at New York University in the mid-1950s, he joined a band that brought him to the attention of the jazz world as a composer and saxophonist: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In a statement released by Shorter's publicist Alisse Kinglsey, Hancock, described as Shorter's "closest friend for more than six decades," wrote, "Wayne Shorter, my best friend, left us with courage in his heart, love and compassion for all, and a seeking spirit for the eternal future. In the mid-'60s, Shorter solidified the second coming of the Miles Davis Quintet, joining Davis, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams and pianist Herbie Hancock.

Immense saxophoniste, Wayne Shorter, mort mercredi 1er mars à 89 ans, a toujours joué en collectif, de l'orchestre des Jazz Messengers au Miles Davis ...

On l’y entend à nouveau, parmi les musiciens, avec toute la précision, la fulgurance et le lyrisme de son style. Très éprouvé par la mort de sa fille Iska en 1983, puis de son épouse Ana Maria et de leur nièce dans un accident d’avion en 1996, il enregistre alors à l’instigation de son ami Herbie Hancock un album de duos « thérapeutique », 1+1, sorti en 1997. Le saxophoniste aime l’aventure : il fonde en 1971 un nouveau groupe, Weather Report avec un compositeur d’origine autrichienne et tsigane, Joe Zawinul, et le bassiste d’origine tchèque Miroslav Vitous, sortant de l’orthodoxie du jazz pour s’ouvrir à toutes les musiques. [Wayne Shorter](https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Mort-jazzman-americain-Wayne-Shorter-89-ans-2023-03-02-1201257468) a côtoyé les plus grands. Créant toujours la surprise, poussant la note bleue dans des territoires et des sonorités inconnues, le saxophoniste ténor et soprano est engagé en 1959 par le batteur Art Blakey chez les Jazz Messengers. Entendre Wayne Shorter, de passage à Paris en 2016, jouer avec Norah Jones permettait de mesurer la virtuosité mais aussi la simplicité du saxophoniste américain, mort le 1er mars à 89 ans, à Los Angeles.

Membre des Jazz Messengers d'Art Blakey, du Miles Davis Quintet puis de Weather Report, le musicien américain est décédé mercredi à Los Angeles à l'âge de ...

Pas rock ? Rock ? « Légende du jazz », « icône du jazz », « géant du jazz » ?

His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz's complex evolution during that span.

Mr. (Mr. Shorter and Mr. Shorter ushered in a profound new stage of his career in 2000, when he formed an acoustic quartet with the pianist Danilo Pérez, the bassist John Patitucci and the drummer Brian Blade. Zawinul and Mr. While in Weather Report, Mr. It took more than a decade for Mr. Nascimento had come from Mr. Shorter was the instrumental voice out front in Weather Report, and second only to Mr. Unlike the other members of the Miles Davis Quintet, Mr. Zawinul and the Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous, Mr. Shorter wore that slight as a badge of honor, at one point painting the words “Mr.

The composer and saxophonist, who won a dozen Grammy Awards and recorded with everyone from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, died on Thursday, March 2 in Los ...

As it is with every human being, he is irreplaceable and was able to reach the pinnacle of excellence as a saxophonist, composer, orchestrator, and recently, composer of the masterful opera '...Iphigenia'. "We have a phrase [in Buddhism]: hom nim yoh," he said in the 2013 NPR interview." His relationship with the iconic Blue Note Records from 1964-1970 resulted in a number of now-classic recordings including Juju (recorded with members of John Coltrane's quartet), Speak No Evil (recorded with two fellow Miles Davis bandmates) and The Soothsayer (featuring fellow Blue Note artist Freddie Hubbard). After studying music at New York University in the mid-1950s, he joined a band that brought him to the attention of the jazz world as a composer and saxophonist: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Many of the albums contained Shorter compositions that are now considered jazz standards. In the mid-'60s, Shorter solidified the second coming of the Miles Davis Quintet, joining Davis, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams and pianist Herbie Hancock.

Wayne Shorter, a Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer who helped shaped the sound of contemporary jazz, has died, according to his publicist.

In the ’70s and ‘80s, Shorter played with various jazz bands and musicians. In 1998, Shorter was also featured on jazz pianist Herbie Hancock’s “Gershwin World” album. Shorter received an honorary doctorate award from NYU in 2010 during the university’s commencement at Yankee Stadium. In 1964, he was recruited by legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis to join Davis’s Second Great Quintet band, with which he played until 1970. He served for two years, per the artist’s biography on [Bluenote.com](https://www.bluenote.com/artist/wayne-shorter/). Shorter was nominated for 23 Grammy Awards during his career and won 12 times.

Composer and performer traversed numerous phases of jazz history, and fused his playing with the likes of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and Carlos Santana.

He said the following year, regarding his music: “I’d be stumbling through something, and it was like I could sense the voice of my wife, saying, ‘Don’t repeat, do something different.’ Like a gate to eternity. Shorter was married three times, first to Teruko Nakagami in 1961, with whom he had a daughter, Miyako. Hancock once said of the Second Great Quintet: “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. They also [played a private concert for Barack Obama’s 50th birthday](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/04/barack-obama-50th-birthday-celebrations), and played an International Jazz Day concert at the White House in 2016 alongside Aretha Franklin and others. Shorter contributed numerous compositions including the title tracks of the albums Nefertiti and ESP, and stayed on after the quintet broke up in 1969 for another Davis masterpiece that year, In a Silent Way. He composed numerous pieces for the group and eventually became musical director, but after a number of attempts, was hired away by Miles Davis in 1964. It’s almost as though she was saying, ‘Do your work – that is the way we find each other, eternally.’” He remarried in 1999, to Carolina Dos Santos. Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn’t get changed.” He paired with his Davis bandmate Herbie Hancock for Mitchell’s Charles Mingus-inspired album Mingus in 1979, and Shorter and Hancock would collaborate frequently over the following years. Beginning in 1959, Shorter also released solo albums including the acclaimed Speak No Evil, Night Dreamer and JuJu, all recorded in 1964. He also played on the Rolling Stones’ 1997 album Bridges to Babylon. it was sort of like that,” Shorter later said.

Wayne Shorter, the legendary, Grammy-winning saxophonist who collaborated with Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell, has died at the age of 89.

In addition to his own work as bandleader and sideman, Shorter was an in-demand session musician and a favorite of Mitchell, who enlisted the saxophonist for all 10 studio albums she released between 1977 and 2002, including 1979’s jazz-indebted Mingus. After a half-decade stint with Blakey, Shorter released his debut as bandleader in 1959, featuring three musicians — bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Jimmy Cobb, and pianist Wynton Kelly — who just months earlier formed the backbone of Davis’ Kind of Blue. After exploring jazz fusion alongside Davis in the late Sixties, Shorter formed Weather Report with keyboardist Joe Zawinul in 1970, with that collective further expanding the subgenre’s sound by funneling jazz through funk and world music influences. As it is with every human being, he is irreplaceable and was able to reach the pinnacle of excellence as a saxophonist, composer, orchestrator, and recently, composer of the masterful opera …Iphigenia. “His music possessed a spirit that came from somewhere way, way beyond and made this world a much better place. The venerated musician died Thursday morning, March 2, in Los Angeles, Shorter’s rep confirmed to Rolling Stone.

Le saxophoniste Wayne Shorter, alias « Mr Gone », décédé jeudi à Los Angeles à 89 ans, a passé quasiment soixante ans au sommet de l'histoire du jazz, ...

Toujours avec modestie et discrétion, traits de caractère d’un musicien à la carrière exemplaire qui, au temps où il était dans le second quintette de Miles, tendait au trompettiste ses partitions en lui disant : « Voilà M. La musique de climats que prône le célèbre trompettiste, contrastant avec le hard bop d’Art Blakey plus rentre dedans, lui libère des espaces. « Il a incarné une sorte de voix médiane, un discours un peu plus rêveur.

Le saxophoniste Wayne Shorter, alias « Mr Gone », décédé jeudi à Los Angeles à 89 ans, a passé quasiment soixante ans au sommet de l'histoire du jazz, ...

Toujours avec modestie et discrétion, traits de caractère d’un musicien à la carrière exemplaire qui, au temps où il était dans le second quintette de Miles, tendait au trompettiste ses partitions en lui disant : « Voilà M. La musique de climats que prône le célèbre trompettiste, contrastant avec le hard bop d’Art Blakey plus rentre dedans, lui libère des espaces. « Il a incarné une sorte de voix médiane, un discours un peu plus rêveur.

Le saxophoniste est considéré comme l'un des plus grands compositeurs de jazz des États-Unis.

Sa sagesse et sa chaleur ont enrichi les vies de tous ceux et celles qui le connaissaient. En 2015, il a reçu un prix Grammy honorifique pour l'ensemble de sa carrière. Le saxophoniste de jazz Wayne Shorter, l'un des compositeurs les plus novateurs de l'histoire musicale, s'est éteint jeudi à l'âge de 89 ans.

Le saxophoniste de jazz Wayne Shorter, l'un des compositeurs les plus novateurs de l'histoire musicale, s'est éteint à l'âge de 89 ans.

«Le maestro Wayne Shorter était notre héros, notre gourou et un magnifique ami, a commenté Don Was, le président de la maison de disque Blue Note pour qui le musicien avait enregistré de nombreux albums. Sa musique avait une âme qui venait d'ailleurs et a fait de cette planète, un monde meilleur. Shorter a fait partie de trois des groupes les plus influents de l'histoire de la musique.

Shorter joined Miles Davis' influential 1960s quintet and co-founded jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1969. He was 89.

“Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn’t get changed.” “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter,” the keyboardist said. Shorter led his own band to produce a string of albums in the 1960s including “Juju”, “Speak No Evil” and “Adam’s Apple” which featured one of jazz’s greatest standards “Footprints.”

Saxophonist and master improviser with artists ranging from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, and with lineups including Weather Report.

[Freddie Hubbard](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/05/obituary-freddie-hubbard) taking the trumpeter’s place, and with Santana. The Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez, the bassist John Patitucci and the drummer [Brian Blade](https://www.brianblade.com/) applied the scintillating interaction of the Davis group to a repertoire mixing Shorter’s compositions with those of Villa-Lobos, Sibelius and Mendelssohn, folk songs and medieval carols. [James Brown](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/26/guardianobituaries.usa) and Jimi Hendrix, hankering for a new sound and the younger audience it might attract. Four years with Blakey gave Shorter a significant presence on the jazz scene, resulting in a series of well-received albums under his own name for the Blue Note label, including Night Dreamer (1964), Speak No Evil (1966) and Super Nova (1969). Shorter had resumed his solo recording career in 1974 with a Brazilian-inflected album titled Native Dancer, featuring the singer-guitarist Milton Nascimento. After Coltrane’s departure four years earlier, the trumpeter had hired and fired a succession of saxophonists before finding the voice he really needed alongside his own. At a theatre in Newark he was able to hear regular performances by the bands of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton and others. At 19, having spent a year pushing trolleys at the Singer factory to earn his tuition fees, he started a music education course at New York University, where his classes included psychology, philosophy and sociology. Joseph, born on a farm in Alabama, worked for the Singer sewing machine company; his wife nurtured the creativity of their two sons with paints and clay. His last album release, [a triple-CD set titled Emanon](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/31/jazz-album-of-the-month-wayne-shorter-emanon-review-vivid-and-sublimely-thrilling), featured music for a chamber orchestra and live recordings of his quartet from a London concert, accompanied by a lavishly produced comic book reflecting his lifelong interest in science fiction; it won the 2018 Grammy award for the year’s best jazz instrumental album. [Ethan Iverson](https://ethaniverson.com/) in 2015, he said: “Most of the kids during the summer, they were out playing baseball or football. As he rose to prominence with the bands of Art Blakey and

De fait, l'influence de Wayne Shorter dépasse largement le registre du jazz pour toucher nombre de genres musicaux: rock, folk, blues, pop, opéra, classique. Et ...

De fait, l’influence de Wayne Shorter dépasse largement le registre du jazz pour toucher nombre de genres musicaux: rock, folk, blues, pop, opéra, classique. Avec son frère Alan Shorter (1932-1988), ils jouaient du bebop et se surnommaient Mr Weird (Monsieur Bizarre) et Doc Strange (Docteur Étrange), chaussés de lunettes noires dans la pénombre de clubs de jazz. Dès les années 1960, Wayne Shorter avait réussi à imposer une troisième voix dans le jazz, au cours d’une période dominée par les saxophonistes de légende John Coltrane et Sonny Rollins.

Wayne Shorter, a saxophonist and composer who had been universally acknowledged as one of the most original and influential jazz artists of the last six ...

He was appointed a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998. A decade later, his wife Ana Maria and his niece Dalila died in the Boeing 747 crash of TWA’s Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. Go out there in your pajamas and tell a story.” His first recording as a band leader, “Introducing Wayne Shorter,” was released in 1959. “I loved the energy and life of the music,” he told Down Beat magazine. Describing his enthusiasm about the band, Shorter told The Times in 2013: “No one knows what’s going to happen each night. It wasn’t until 1948, when he discovered the emergence of bebop and the playing of such breakthrough jazz icons as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Lester Young, that he took up the saxophone, forming his own first band in 1952. But Shorter’s early artistic interests as a young teenager were in the visual arts, especially film, painting and sculpture. 25, 1933, in Newark, N.J., Shorter and his brother Alan, a trumpeter, were encouraged by their father to pursue careers in music. “Maestro Wayne Shorter was our hero, guru and beautiful friend,” Don Was, president of Blue Note records, said in a statement Thursday. He was ready for his rebirth,” Herbie Hancock, Shorter’s closest friend for more than six decades, said in a statement Thursday. Moving freely across an expressive horizon — from bebop to free improvisation — Shorter enhanced his imaginative soloing with a rich palette of saxophone sounds and textures.

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a ...

Herbie Hancock once said of Shorter in Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet: "The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed." Shorter died Thursday morning in Los Angeles, a representative said

Wayne Shorter, a saxophonist and composer who had been universally acknowledged as one of the most original and influential jazz artists of the last six ...

He was appointed a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998. A decade later, his wife Ana Maria and his niece Dalila died in the Boeing 747 crash of TWA’s Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island. Go out there in your pajamas and tell a story.” His first recording as a band leader, “Introducing Wayne Shorter,” was released in 1959. “I loved the energy and life of the music,” he told Down Beat magazine. Describing his enthusiasm about the band, Shorter told The Times in 2013: “No one knows what’s going to happen each night. It wasn’t until 1948, when he discovered the emergence of bebop and the playing of such breakthrough jazz icons as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Lester Young, that he took up the saxophone, forming his own first band in 1952. But Shorter’s early artistic interests as a young teenager were in the visual arts, especially film, painting and sculpture. 25, 1933, in Newark, N.J., Shorter and his brother Alan, a trumpeter, were encouraged by their father to pursue careers in music. “Maestro Wayne Shorter was our hero, guru and beautiful friend,” Don Was, president of Blue Note records, said in a statement Thursday. He was ready for his rebirth,” Herbie Hancock, Shorter’s closest friend for more than six decades, said in a statement Thursday. Moving freely across an expressive horizon — from bebop to free improvisation — Shorter enhanced his imaginative soloing with a rich palette of saxophone sounds and textures.

Like all great jazz musicians, the saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who died on Thursday, at the age of eighty-nine, had a distinctive, original, and instantly ...

Just as Shorter’s ingenious solos display a profound warmth at a respectful distance, his career over all, in the groups that he inspired and formed, evokes the profound humanity of his spiritual inspirations. [Steely Dan](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-high-school-crush-on-steely-dan), [Joni Mitchell](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/joni-mitchells-openhearted-heroism), and Bruce Hornsby, and also reunited with Hancock and even with Davis soon before the trumpeter’s death.) When it did, with a quartet that he founded in 2001, with the pianist Danilo Pérez, the bassist John Patitucci, and the drummer Brian Blade, Shorter made yet another crucial mark on the history of the music. The group was, in effect, a hangout quartet, with the familiar structure of melody and a string of solos giving way to a swirling, shifting, conversational flux. That sonic elusiveness also suggests the paradox of his place in jazz history: at the very center, but as if at the margins of that center, because, though Shorter created a long list of classic recordings as a leader of his own groups, he was a sideman in two of the greatest of all jazz ensembles—Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and [Miles Davis](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/miles-davis)’s second quintet—and was perhaps the most consequential of all sidemen. Davis turned his band electric (although he didn’t sell out to pop modes but, rather, radicalized them into something closer to densely orchestral electronic noise music) and changed its membership; in 1970, Shorter took part in the founding of a new band, Weather Report, which also integrated new pop and rock traditions into jazz performance. (Every one of them is a classic; I’m especially fond of “The Soothsayer,” recorded in 1965, which feels both elaborately composed and loose-limbedly swinging.) Shorter worked with a sort of family of like-minded musicians (including the trumpeters

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a ...

In 2015 he was given a lifetime achievement Grammy. As it is with every human being, he is irreplaceable and was able to reach the pinnacle of excellence as a saxophonist, composer, orchestrator, and recently, composer of the masterful opera `…Iphigenia'. Herbie Hancock once said of Shorter in Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet: “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed.” It called him a gentle spirit who was “always inquisitive and constantly exploring.” Shorter, whose lyrical jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music and made him one of the most influential innovators in jazz, died in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 2, 2023.