Cast & creator
Wayne Shorter
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Great Performances, The Kennedy Center Honors
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.
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Filmography (50)
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Great Performances
Self
1971
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Classic Albums
Self
1997
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self
2015
Miles Ahead
Live Concert Band
2016
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Self - Musician
2019
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
Self
2023
Chasing Trane
Self - Musician
2017
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Self
2019
Love Crimes
Jazz Quartet
1992
Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind
Self
2003
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Self
2018
Jaco
Self
2015The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
Self
1994
Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja
Self
1999
I Called Him Morgan
Self
2016
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
1986
Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964
1964
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You
Self
2023
Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978
Himself
1978
Santana: In Concert
Self - Saxophone
2005Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions
Himself
1987
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
Saxophone
1996
Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux
2004
The World According to John Coltrane
Himself
1990
Santana: Supernatural Live
Self
2000
Weather Report Live In Tokyo
himself
1984
Universe
2020Universe
Music
2020
Miles Davis: Around Midnight
Saxophone (Tenor)
2011
Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969
2010
Tribute to Miles - Jazz à Vienne
Himself
2011
Weather Report: Live in Berlin
1975
Marcus
Self
2015
Weather Report: Live at Montreux
Saxophones
1976
Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969
himself
2013
Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Himself
1988
esperanza spalding: Homage to Wayne Shorter @ Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa 2023
Original Music Composer
2023Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969
Self
Weather Report - Live 1971 TV
Themself
Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971
Himself
1971
The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet
2012
The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project
Sax soprano
1990
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th
himself
2010Michel Petrucciani Power of Three
Himself
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac
Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne
Himself
2010