Washington – Reuters
On Thursday, death passed away, the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who composed a number of the most famous pieces of jazz music, and his playing made a change in the sound of jazz music in the sixties, at the age of 89.
His publicist, Alice Kingsley, said he died in Los Angeles, without giving a cause of death.
Shorter rose to fame as a tenor saxophone player in the Jazz Messengers, led by drummer Art Blakey in the late 1950s before joining trumpeter Miles Davis’s quintet in the 1960s. Shorter wrote some of the band’s most famous songs. Davis hailed him as, for the band, “the brainchild and conceptualizer of a wide range of musical ideas that we’ve presented”.
Shorter also led his own band to produce albums in the 1960s. He co-founded the Weather Report Band in 1969 at about the time he was beginning to focus on playing the soprano saxophone.
Shorter co-wrote the opera (Iphigenia) with singer Esperanza Spalding, which premiered in 2021. Shorter won 12 Grammy Awards, the last of which was last month.
