Former accomplice of Miles Davis, the saxophonist was considered one of the largest jazz composers in the United States.
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His influence on jazz will have lasted more than half a century. Wayne Shorter, an American saxophonist considered one of the largest jazz composers in the United States, died Thursday, March 2 in Los Angeles at the age of 89. His agent Alisse Kingsley confirmed it to the France-Presse agency in a written message, but without revealing the cause of the death of this musician born in 1933 in Newark, near New York.
He had played with the older ones, including Miles Davis, and excelled both in the Soprano saxophone and tenor, especially with his group Weather Report. Wayne Shorter was one of the last living legends of jazz, a musical genre that he had embraced in the 1950s, after a youth of Clarinetist.
With his brother Alan Shorter (1932-1988), they played Bebop and nicknamed themselves “Mr Weird” (“Monsieur bizarre”) and “Doc Strange” (“Foreign Doctor”), pavement of dark glasses in the dark jazz clubs.
Wayne Shorter in a few dates
August 25, 1933 Birth in Newark, New Jersey.
1959 joins the jazz messengers.
1964 incorporates the quintet of Miles Davis.
1971 Foundes Weather Report with Joe Zawinul.
2002-2003 “Footprints Live!” and “Alegría” (verve).
2023 died in Los Angeles at the age of 89