{"id":10063,"date":"2018-08-25T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T22:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2018-08-25T16:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T23:03:37","slug":"wayne-shorter-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/08\/wayne-shorter-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Shorter At 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is Wayne Shorter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 85th birthday. The saxophonist and composer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s professional debut was in a brief 1950s stint with Horace Silver. Following service in the Army, he became a key soloist in Maynard Ferguson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s big band, then entered a long, productive period as Art Blakey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music director. In the Miles Davis Quintet in the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc60s he became increasingly important as a soloist and as the composer of pieces including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153E.S.P.,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fall,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sanctuary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that quickly became established in the repertoires of musicians around the world. In 1970, Shorter and pianist Joe Zawinul founded the band called Weather Report, for which Shorter composed further pieces that became jazz standards.<\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s listen to Shorter compositions from widely spaced periods of his career.
\nFirst: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One By One\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the Blakey group from the album Ugetsu<\/em><\/a>. The band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s front line was Shorter on tenor saxohone, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and trombonist Curtis Fuller.<\/p>\n

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