The Influential jazz innovator's wide-spanning collaborations would include co-founding the '70s fusion band Weather Report and some 10 album appearances with Joni Mitchell.
Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89.
"Visionary composer, saxophonist, visual artist, devout Buddhist, devoted husband, father and grandfather Wayne Shorter has embarked on a new journey as part of his extraordinary life - departing the earth as we know it in search of an abundance of new challenges and creative possibilities," a statement released by Kingsley said. It called him a gentle spirit who was "always inquisitive and constantly exploring.
Many of Shorter's textured and elliptical compositions - including "Speak No Evil," "Black Nile," "Footprints," and "Nefertiti" - became modern jazz standards and expanded the harmonic horizons of jazz across some of its most fast-evolving eras.
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