RIP Wayne Shorter

[kooth]

Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter

[Walleye]

1. I liked that Weather Report album. I love Miles Davis

[NewHendoLib]

2. He did the amazing sax solo in Steely Dan's song Aja

[PennyC]

8. Oh yes

We all listened to Aja today.

[Easterncedar]

3. Weather Report was phenomenal!

[ancianita]

4. His spirit will live on. I loved Weather Report.

[crickets]

5. I still have have Heavy Weather on vinyl from when I bought it in college.

So much good music. He will be missed.

[nolabear]

6. Just the best. *sigh* Thanks for the beauty. ❤️

[Paladin]

7. A great, productive talent. RIP. (nt)

[calimary]

9. Indeed.

Heaven just got a new sax player.

[LoisB]

10. Brilliant musician.

[2naSalit]

11. Hardly a day passes...

That I don't listen to something he's recorded.

[spanone]

12. RIP

[Ohio Joe]

13. RIP

[Jazz Jon]

14. End of an Era

Very sad. I took up the soprano saxophone because of Wayne Shorter. Weather Report remains my favorite band to this day. They had no equals. My love for music and jazz in particular, was boosted and kept sustained by Weather Report's work.

[Dave says]

15. Got to see him a few years ago

It was at the Detroit Jazz Festival prior to the pandemic. We were a couple of rows from the stage. Had Esperanza Spaulding on bass and vocals. They did an improv that truly rose to the heights of heavenly bliss for me. So sorry to see this creative genius pass.

On edit: his Juju, Night Dreamer, Speak No Evil, and (to a lesser extent) Adams Apple - his Blue Note years - are amongst my favorite albums. I’ve been listening to them for the last 4 or 5 decades, never cease to please and amaze.

[VGNonly]

16. I saw him twice

with Weather Report, once in Detroit and in Toledo.

A great talent!

[sarchasm]

17. .

[Ampulae]

18. So long, Wayne

As a fellow jazz saxophonist (unfit to carry Wayne's reeds), I've been intimately aware of him since I was a child and saw him live with Weather Report opening for, of all groups, Earth Wind and Fire at the Hollywood Bowl. What a concert!!! I want to say 1975 ish. Anyway, he was there all through my years of study, fan boi-ism, career and forever more with his lovely straight no vibrato tone, mad facility and incredible song writing. A true genius.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. He was a genuine musical genius.

What an incomparable body of work he left us, as a composer and an improviser.

May he come to eternal rest from samsara and reach nirvana.

[Pinback]

20. Enigmatic composer, brilliant improviser

I love this guy and his work. Tunes like "Fall," "Juju," "Nefertiti," and so many others will live a long time. What a life, what a human.