Other than that, however, his only solo output that gets any attention here is … Still committed to electronics and fusion, his recorded compositions from the period feature welcoming rhythms and harmonically complex arrangements. “If he only needs to play one note, that’s what he does. While in high school Wayne also performed with the Nat Phipps Band in Newark, NJ. After three Columbia albums during 1986-1988 -- Atlantis, Phantom Navigator and Joy Ryder -- and a tour with Santana (represented by the 2005 album Montreux 1988), he lapsed into silence, emerging again in 1992 with Wallace Roney and the V.S.O.P. As a horn player, Shorter's membership in V.S.O.P. He’s still trying to say everything. Just after that release, the Wayne Shorter Quartet performed four of the leader's compositions with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The quintet dissolved in 1968, but Shorter stuck with Davis long enough to toss a few clean ideas into the psychedelic muck of Davis’s big crossover album, 1970’s “Bitches Brew.” That same year, Shorter co-founded Weather Report, a wildly successful fusion group in which the anti-music veteran converted himself into a sort of anti-bandleader, taking up the role of a benevolent, centering presence rather than the group’s guiding force. revealed he'd continued to grow and experiment. That ability to connect the most disparate of dots has helped Shorter become one of the finest composers in the history of American jazz — and when he receives the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night, he’ll be recognized for all of that, and then some. He even drew one when he was 15 — an interplanetary romance titled “Other Worlds.” But once bebop took over his teen brain, he stopped idolizing Captain Marvel and started worshiping Charlie Parker. Blue-eyed Wayne is of white ethnicity and holds an American nationality. Wayne Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States, and attended Newark Arts High School, from which he graduated in 1952. rhythm section in the "A Tribute to Miles" band. “There’s a connection between everything.”. No! “I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic,” Shorter says, evoking the sanctity of the republic before pivoting to a sci-fi idea: “That’s where the portal is.”. In November 1970, Shorter teamed up with old cohort Joe Zawinul and Miroslav Vitous to form Weather Report, where after a fierce start, Shorter's playing grew mellower, pithier, more consciously melodic, and gradually more subservient to Zawinul's concepts. It emerged from within.”. “No profound, omnipotent force came and gave it to him. “The first day I played with Miles, he called me to the Hollywood Bowl,” Shorter says of his high-wire audition. Join Napster and play your favorite music offline. Each of the four movements has a corresponding theme in a graphic novel penned by Shorter and Monica Sly, illustrated by Randy DeBurke. Blue Note released Blue Note's Great Sessions: Wayne Shorter in 2006. 2001 2002 Shorter has recorded dozens of albums as a leader, and appeared on dozens more with others. Wayne Shorter Quartet – The Barbican, London, November 2013. He lives with his wife of nearly 20 years, Carolina, in a house high in the Hollywood Hills, where the maestro awakes each day around 5:30 a.m. to compose on a Nord synthesizer the color of an Atomic Fireball. Wayne Shorter Live at Montreux 1996 Eagle Eye Media 2009. Wayne Shorter is a Virgo and was born in The Year of the Rooster Life. Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. ‎Though some will argue about whether ten-time Grammy winner Wayne Shorter's primary impact on jazz has been as a composer or as a saxophonist, few will dispute his importance as one of jazz's leading figures of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Shorter finally left Weather Report in 1985. Wayne Shorter - Samples, Covers and Remixes on WhoSampled. With 2002's Footprints Live!, continued on 2003's Alegria, Shorter showcased a new acoustic quartet dedicated to performing his compositions. It draws inspiration from the concept of a multiverse (where numerous universes co-exist simultaneously) and features a character named Emanon, an action-hero proxy of Shorter, a comic book aficionado since he was a boy. Jumping into those pop-portals might not have resulted in Shorter’s most cosmic playing, but strangely, his rock-and-roll dalliances only support his reputation in the greater jazz consciousness as an empath whose preternatural sense of economy sets him apart from the busy heroism of Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and other saxophone colossi. Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. Herbie Hancock - Wayne Shorter 2 Garage Sale Recording Studios, LA, 1997 2001. In a 1992 interview with Jazz Forum, he compared Miles Davis to Batman, describing Davis as “a crusader for justice and for value” who “had to be a dual personality, too, like he knew the criminal mind.”. Wayne Shorter Quartet @ Koerner Hall – TO 22/4/2017 I Dare You. Though absent from recording, Shorter continued to tour regularly with the same quartet after 2005. As a prolific solo artist for Blue Note during this period, Shorter expanded his palette from hard bop almost into the atonal avant-garde, with fascinating excursions into jazz-rock territory toward the turn of the decade. After a stint in the Army, he landed a spot in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers — a group in which Shorter says he learned to think of musical narrative as an act of collective storytelling.