Wayne Shorter 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 co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.
In 2017, Shorter was announced as the joint winner of the Polar Music Prize. The award committee stated: “Without the musical explorations of Wayne Shorter, modern music would not have drilled so deep. Shorter received the Kennedy Center Honors Award from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for his lifetime of contributions to the arts.
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Wayne Shorter had been in married life with three separate women. his first wife is Teruko Nakagami whom he married in 1961, the two lived together and gave birth to one child. They however divorced in 1964. His early influences include Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, and Coleman Hawkins. In 1959, Shorter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers where he stayed for four years, eventually becoming a musical director and composing pieces for the band
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