Wayne Shorter
Acting • Born 1933-08-25 – Died 2023-03-02
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wayne Shorter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
47 credits
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
Movie • 1984
himself
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Movie • 1988
Himself
Santana: Supernatural Live
Movie • 2000
Self
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
Movie • 2004
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
Movie • 1978
Himself
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
Movie • 1975
Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Movie
Himself
Santana: In Concert
Movie • 2005
Self - Saxophone
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
Movie • 2011
Himself
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
Movie • 2010
Himself
Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
Movie
Self
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
Movie • 2010
himself
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
Movie • 2023
Self
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
Movie • 2013
himself
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
Movie • 2011
Saxophone (Tenor)
The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
Movie • 1994
Self
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
Movie • 1987
Himself
Jaco
Movie • 2015
Self
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie • 2019
Self - Musician
Miles Ahead
Movie • 2016
Live Concert Band
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
Movie
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
Movie
Themself
Chasing Trane
Movie • 2017
Self - Musician
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Movie • 2003
Self
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
Movie • 1990
Sax soprano
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
Movie • 1976
Saxophones
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Movie • 2019
Self
I Called Him Morgan
Movie • 2016
Self
The World According to John Coltrane
Movie • 1990
Himself
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Movie • 2018
Self
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
Movie • 1971
Himself
Marcus
Movie • 2015
Self
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Movie • 1999
Self
Universe
Movie • 2020
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
Movie • 2012
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
Movie • 2010
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
Movie • 1996
Saxophone
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
Movie • 1964
Before Midnight
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
Movie
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Tribute To John Coltrane (Select Live Under The Sky '87 10th Special)
Movie • 1987
Love Crimes
Movie • 1992
Jazz Quartet
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
TV • 2015
Self
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
TV • 2023
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self