Wayne Shorter, icon of jazz saxophone, dies aged 89

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Composer and performer traversed numerous phases of jazz history, and fused his playing with the likes of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and Carlos Santana

Wayne Shorter, one of America’s greatest jazz saxophonists whose career spanned bop, fusion and more, has died in hospital in Los Angeles, aged 89. His publicist confirmed his death to the New York Times.

and Steely Dan. He is an 11-time Grammy award winner, plus the recipient of their lifetime achievement award.Photograph: Redferns Davis’s First Great Quintet, featuring John Coltrane, Bill Evans and more in with shifting personnel, had recorded classics including Kind of Blue, but by 1963 he was struggling to maintain a coherent lineup. Shorter was part of a clean slate withon piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums, an ensemble whose flattened hierarchy and free-thinking produced increasingly adventurous albums: Filles de Kilimanjaro, Sorcerer, Miles Smiles and more.

 

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