American saxophonist Wayne Shorter died on Thursday, March 2 aged 89. Rest in peace.
American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who wrote some of jazz’s most acclaimed compositions and whose often plaintive playing changed the sound of jazz in the 1960s before he explored rock-fusion, died on Thursday, March 2 aged 89.Shorter made his name playing the tenor sax with drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the late 1950s and joined trumpeter Miles Davis’ influential 1960s quintet alongside pianist Herbie Hancock, bass player Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams.
Hancock also hailed Shorter’s songwriting. “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter,” the keyboardist said. “Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn’t get changed.”Adam’s AppleHe co-founded jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1969 around the time he began to focus his playing on the soprano sax, and the band recorded one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, “Heavy Weather,” in 1977.
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