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