Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Linda May Han Oh, John Szwed

Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Linda May Han Oh, John Szwed and West Side Story Reimagined among winners of 2019 Jazz Awards. Congrats to all, runners-up included https://t.co/WhAZnSWHON

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Wayne Shorter is the Detroit Jazz Fest

Wayne Shorter is the Detroit Jazz Fest's artist-in-residence this year - Detroit Metro Times https://t.co/3raxIrpqoo

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Cedar Walton - "That Old Feeling"

Pianist Cedar Walton performing "That Old Feeling" as a member of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Freddie Hubbard, trumpet, Curtis Fuller, trombone, Wayne Shorter, tenor sax and Jymie Merritt, bass.

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"#Music shouldn't have mandates #Jazz is not required to sound like jazz" Wayne Shorter • https://t.co/tx5H6lvh1P • pic.twitter.com/ONQ3qfHXI4

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Chick Corea - Herbie Hancock - J. MC Laughlin - Carlos Santana - Wayne Shorter

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Wayne Shorter on Miles Davis, Kanye West, & the Music of the Future

Wayne Shorter performs on stage at the 2014 International Jazz Day Global Concert on April 30, 2014 in Osaka, Japan. Keith Tsuji/Getty Images for Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

By Natalie Weiner | May 15, 2015 8:31 PM EDT

Speaking with Wayne Shorter, whose prolific career has placed him solidly in jazz's canon, is nothing if not amusing. Legendary for his compositions and and compatriots alike (he's played with everyone from Miles Davis to Santana to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra), Shorter approaches life (and conversation) with a unique blend of his adopted Buddhism and his passion for arts and culture. Over the course of our talk he alluded to Mo'nique, astrophysics, the NBA playoffs (he's pulling for the Warriors), Jurassic Park, and Kanye West (among other things). 

It's been 50 years since Shorter started playing with Miles Davis' now-classic Second Great Quintet -- Shorter and Davis alongside Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams -- yet he remembers his time with Miles like it was yesterday. "I used to talk to Miles all the time," he tells Billboard. "A lot of it was about health. 'You know my left leg, there's something wrong with it.' " (It's important to note that every quote comes with an accompanying impression -- his Miles voice is spot-on.) If the questions and answers seem unrelated, it's because Shorter is about 50 steps ahead of the rest of us at any given time, somehow embracing philosophical discussion and laughter equally. "I'm drilling for wisdom," he says. "That's the challenge. I have to play wisdom and make it fun -- not intellectual.

read more: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6568518/wayne-shorter-miles-davis-kanye-west-the-music-of-the-future

At 80, Wayne Shorter Performs 'Without a Net'

By CHARLES J. GANS Associated Press
NEW YORK October 3, 2013 (AP)

At age 80, Wayne Shorter isn't ready to rest on his reputation as one of the greatest composers in jazz history. Instead, whenever he performs the saxophonist can't resist the urge to "de-compose" his works and create something anew.

"Jazz to me is something that doesn't have to sound like jazz," said Shorter, speaking by telephone from his home in the Hollywood Hills. "The word 'jazz' means I dare you. I dare you to go beyond what you are. You have to go beyond your comfort zone, to break out of the box. ... You're talking about not just music, you're talking about life."

Shorter, who celebrated his birthday with several concerts in August, is still going strong. He was a quadruple winner in this year's Downbeat magazine critics poll, topping the categories for Jazz Artist, Jazz Album, Jazz Group and Soprano Saxophone. Earlier this year, he was awarded the UNESCO Medal of the Five Continents during International Jazz Day celebrations in Istanbul, Turkey, and last month the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

"You could say that he's at the peak of his game because he's so full of creative vitality and potential at the age of 80, but how could anybody know Wayne Shorter's peak," said pianist Herbie Hancock, Shorter's long-time friend, musical collaborator and fellow Buddhist. Hancock turned up to play duets with Shorter at birthday celebrations at the Newport Jazz Festival and Hollywood Bowl.

"I get the feeling that many people feel that when they reach a certain age they just want to pull away from things and rest," Hancock said, "but the great joy of living is that there is no age where one needs to turn off the creative juices and Wayne is showing that."

Hancock said he first played with Shorter in 1961 on trumpeter Donald Byrd's album "Free Form." Three years later they members of Miles Davis' groundbreaking second classic quintet with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams.

Davis encouraged his musicians to bring in their compositions to record, but Shorter's were the only ones the trumpeter didn't change in the studio, Hancock said. These included such tunes as "E.S.P.," ''Nefertiti" and "Footprints" that became modern jazz standards.

Hancock said he was equally amazed by Shorter's skills as a saxophonist and improviser.

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Jazz legend Wayne Shorter marks his 80th but is never 'finished'

Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times / August 25, 2013

By Chris Barton
August 24, 2013, 11:00 a.m.

There's something oddly appropriate about seeing Wayne Shorter wearing a Superman symbol.

True, it's only a dog tag-shaped memento from the Christopher Reeve Foundation hanging from his neck, but the heroic detail suits the saxophonist when considering the impact of his career. As a composer and soloist, the 80-year-old artist has shaped jazz both on his own recordings and recordings with Art Blakey, Miles Davis and the landmark jazz-rock fusion group Weather Report.

Seated in front of a window at his hillside Los Angeles home overlooking West Hollywood, Century City and, on a clear day, the Pacific, Shorter smiles when asked about the bright red-and-gold logo. He flips it over to show the front, which identifies the foundation and a slogan that seems just as fitting: "Go forward."

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"I like to turn it around: 'No, this is a two-way street,'" he explains.

It's the kind of oblique yet curiously apt explanation that comes up often while trying to put Shorter's idiosyncratic musical path into words. Because as much as Shorter's impact on the sound of jazz and improvised music lends itself to superhuman comparisons, it's not as if the composer has spent 2013 retired in some hillside fortress of solitude.

In fact, it's quite the opposite. During what's amounted to a yearlong celebration of Shorter's 80th birthday (which culminates Wednesday in an all-star concert at the Hollywood Bowl organized by longtime friend and collaborator Herbie Hancock), Shorter appears determined to look ahead.

In addition to the winter premiere of a sprawling composition, "Gaia," at Disney Hall, written for rising star Esperanza Spalding, and a recent live collaboration with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Shorter also released "Without a Net," a relentlessly searching live album with his current quartet that's his first album for Blue Note in more than 43 years. It also happens to be one of the most acclaimed jazz records of the year.

"No one knows what's going to happen each night," he says of his ever-exploring band, which features drummer Brian Blade, pianist Danilo Perez and bassist John Patitucci (the group will also perform Wednesday). "I always say, we don't really rehearse," Shorter adds. "How do you rehearse the unknown?"

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