American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who wrote some of jazz's most acclaimed compositions and whose often plaintive playing changed the sound of jazz in the 1960s before he explored rock-fusion, died on Thursday aged 89, U.S. media reported.Shorter's publicist, Alisse Kingsley, confirmed his death to the N
American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who wrote some of jazz's most acclaimed compositions and whose often plaintive playing changed the sound of jazz in the 1960s before he explored rock-fusion, died on Thursday aged 89, U.S. media reported.
Shorter wrote some of the group's most famous songs including"E.S.P." and"Nefertiti." Davis hailed him as his band's"idea person, the conceptualizer of a whole lot of the musical ideas we did" who also"understood that freedom in music was the ability to know the rules in order to bend them." He co-founded jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1969 around the time he began to focus his playing on the soprano sax, and the band recorded one of the best-selling jazz records of all time,"Heavy Weather," in 1977.
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