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	Wayne Shorter - Biography - AOL Music
		Shorter's influence as a player, stemming mainly from his achievements in the 1960s and '70s, has been tremendous upon the neo-bop brigade who emerged in the early '80s, most notably Branford Marsalis.
		Shorter's solo ambitions were mostly on hold during the WR days, resulting in but one atypical solo album, Native Dancer, an attractive side trip into Brazilian-American tropicalismo in tandem with Milton Nascimento.
		Shorter also revisited the past in the late '70s by touring with Freddie Hubbard and ex-Miles sidemen Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams as V.S.O.P. Shorter finally left Weather Report in 1985, but promptly went into a creative slump.
	music.aol.com /artist/wayne-shorter/7540/biography (751 words)

	Wayne Shorter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist.
		Shorter composed all the compositions on the album and co-produced it with the bassist Marcus Miller.
		Shorter's wife Ana Maria and their niece Dalila were both killed on TWA Flight 800 in 1996, and he married Carolina Dos Santos, a close friend of Ana Maria, in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayne_Shorter (1116 words)

	E.J.N. - WAYNE SHORTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wayne Shorter was considered "the idea man" behind Miles Davis's legendary 60s quintet, and the tenor and soprano sax player brings this creative input to the Hancock - Shorter quartet.
		Born August 25, 1933, in Newark, New Jersey, Shorter served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958.
		Shorter's talents were in demand in more than the jazz world around this time, as he found himself recording with top pop artists like Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan.
	www.ejn.it /mus/shorter.htm (614 words)

	The Complete Wayne Shorter
		Wayne Shorter had reached the pinnacle with Weather Report, but took his time branching out on his own again.
		Shorter's talents were even in demand outside the jazz world around this time, as he found himself recording with top pop artists like Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan.
		Wayne Shorter has earned these accolades through his incredible ability to improvise for more that four decades, and there is no doubt that he will continue to cultivate it in the future
	home.ica.net /~blooms/wshome.html (676 words)

	Wayne Shorter: Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter - PopMatters Music Review
		Some musicians -- Wayne Shorter among them -- have had a greater influence as writers than as instrumentalists; their compositions appear on releases by an untold number of artists, some of them currently languishing in critical and popular obscurity.
		Shorter is best known today as a member of Weather Report, whose "Birdland" -- composed by Joe Zawinul -- remains a mainstay of jazz-fusion collections, even if its currency as a perennially-available television theme seems to have been mercifully devalued of late.
		The producers of this compilation stress that their intentions were to respect the broad chronology of Shorter's career, choosing as many tracks the late '50s as from the last few years, and not imposing too many critical judgments about the relative importance and quality of the material.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/shorterwayne-footprints.shtml (1478 words)

	Wayne Shorter Interview
		Wayne Shorter is one of the most unique and influential saxophonists and composers performing today.
		Wayne had just that day purchased a 75,000 series Mark VI tenor and this was his first opportunity to try it out.
		Wayne has a kind of poetic and creative way of speaking which I've attempted to capture in print, however, one really has to hear the inflections and tonal qualities inherent in his human voice to appreciate the full meaning of his words: much as the way he plays.
	www.melmartin.com /html_pages/Interviews/shorter.html (3686 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alegría: Books: Wayne Shorter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Shorter may not reproduce the perfect architecture of the solos collected recently on The Classic Blue Note Recordings, but Alegría suggests he's got something to say: contrast the expansive playing here with the terse, punctuated style that characterised his work in Weather Report and elsewhere over the past three decades.
		Wayne Shorter's triumphant return to acoustic jazz on his Grammy nominated live album, Footprints, set the stage for this forward thinking and unique item in his discography.
		Wayne Shorter, throughout his career, has continued to astound everyone in the jazz world and this album is by no means away from that path.
	www.amazon.ca /Alegria-Wayne-Shorter/dp/B00007LL7N (1397 words)

	Amazon.com: JuJu: Music: Wayne Shorter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Wayne Shorter recorded this date in 1964, he was asserting his own voice as both a saxophonist and a composer after his years with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
		Shorter's a master of tension and release, using contrasting elements in a piece, mixing major and minor, consonance and dissonance, and different rhythms to evoke complex moods of doubt and playfulness or constraint and joyous swing.
		Shorter was a master of melody and his compositional skills easily entice those that long for clear cut melodic definition in their music.
	www.amazon.com /JuJu-Wayne-Shorter/dp/B00000IWVU (1395 words)

	Wayne Shorter: The Hard Bop Homepage
		Wayne Shorter's music pumped new blood into the Miles Davis Quintet of the time with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams.
		Wayne, Miles and Herbie Hancock would again change instrumental music in the late sixties with an open-ended music that would later be called fusion.
		Wayne and Joe Zawinul, both of whom can draw great drama and beauty from music using color, rhythm and leaping intervals, formed the most creative and innovative of fusion bands, Weather Report, which they co-led until 1985.
	members.tripod.com /~hardbop/shorter.html (413 words)

	Wayne Shorter/Weather Report
		Tenor/soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter was part of the last great Miles Davis group, and brought post-bop composition to its highest point (or at any, rate, its most sophisticated point) in the mid 1960s.
		Shorter went on a tear in the mid-60s, releasing two albums a year filled with classic compositions and performances, in addition to his work with Miles Davis, and though this is widely regarded as the best of the bunch, I don't recommend starting here.
		Shorter's on soprano almost exclusively here, and as usual when he picks up the instrument, he restricts himself to toothless ornamental lines ("Beauty And The Beast") - the difference in energy level when he switches to tenor is jolting ("Miracle Of The Fishes").
	www.warr.org /shorter.html (3248 words)

	CD Review of Wayne Shorter - Footprints - Live on Verve Music Group @ jazzreview.com
		While some may choose to argue about Wayne Shorter's impact on jazz and whether he has had more of an impact as a composer or saxophonist, the one thing that is indisputable is that he has been and continues to be one of jazz's leading figures.
		After 1988 Shorter was quiet until 1995 when he recorded High Life, a collaboration album with keyboardist Rachel Z. He also toured with Carlos Santana's Latin jazz-rock alumni band in 1988 and with the Miles tribute band, Wallace Roney and the V.S.O.P. rhythm section in 1992.
		Wayne Shorter's "Footprints-Live" a CD that Shorter fans and jazz aficionados should make sure that they have in their collection.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=2963 (557 words)

	National Initiatives: NEA Jazz Masters on Tour - Wayne Shorter
		Equally renowned for his compositions as for his saxophone playing, Wayne Shorter has contributed many songs to the jazz canon while participating in some of the major changes in jazz music over the last 35 years, and has received six Grammy Awards for his recordings.
		Shorter's musical pursuits started on the clarinet, at age 16, evolving to the tenor saxophone soon thereafter.
		Shorter, who originally studied as a visual artist, continues to pursue the visual arts as well as music.
	www.nea.gov /national/jazz/artists_tour/shorter.html (497 words)

	Amazon.ca: Speak No Evil: Music: Wayne Shorter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wayne Shorter's compositions helped define a new jazz style in the mid-'60s, merging some of the concentrated muscular force of hard bop with surprising intervals and often spacious melodies suspended over the beat.
		Though it is obviously indebted to this tradition, Shorter's compositions shifted the focus away from "blowing" and onto the beauty of the compositions.
		The collection of Wayne Shorter compositions included in Speak No Evil is a prime example of five artists expressing their imagination through six extraordinary pieces all written by Shorter.
	www.amazon.ca /Speak-No-Evil-Wayne-Shorter/dp/B00000I8UH (1680 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Speak No Evil: Remastered: Music: Wayne Shorter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Shorter, who has always incorporated a stronger element of the blues to his playing than Coltrane did in the mid-sixties, mixes this with some masterful composition and improvisation.
		Shorter had been playing with Coltrane in the late 50's but his style ended up more melodic as can be heard on the opener 'Witch Hunt', which sounds like the basis of his work with Weather Report in the 70's.
		Shorter was extraordinarily lucky to have these players at the peak of their powers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Speak-Evil-Remastered-Wayne-Shorter/dp/B00000I8UH (1298 words)

	Wayne Shorter: Beyond the Sound Barrier - PopMatters Music Review
		Shorter turns the figure over a number of different ways, but he doesn't take over the tune, instead keeping it in balance, the piano and tenor chatting back and forth as Patitucci and Blade stir the pot and then begin to surge forward together, dropping a hard funk rhythm under the duet.
		Shorter gives the soundtrack music a decidedly cinematic treatment, with the track moving through different rhythmic phases rather than through a string of static solos.
		Wayne Shorter, widely considered to be a difficult but unquestioned jazz master, seems finally ready to record and tour as a leader in the music.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/shorterwayne-beyond.shtml (1414 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wayne Shorter's tunes are singable, yet verge on the bizarre.
		Shorter explains: "Whatever made those recordings unique unto themselves had to do with being prepared to work on a one-on-one basis [and] that experience enabled us to be like an extract from the quintet, to do duets based on a lot of things we had lived through together like a family."
		Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock perform as part of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center 25th Anniversary Concert Series on Thursday (Nov. 16) at 8pm at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.09.00/kuumbwa-0045.html (630 words)

	Wayne Shorter: Alegria
		What is surprising is the way Shorter works with a large group of musicians on many tracks to provide beautiful settings for his trademark soprano and tenor playing.
		Just listen to the Shorter’s arrangement for “Serenata,” utilizing flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and cello; it evokes Miles Ahead while managing to be completely fresh and original because of Shorter’s individual voice in the arrangements and his beautiful soprano work.
		Shorter actually began working with the quartet on this album prior to the tour that resulted in Footprints.
	www.jazzitude.com /shorter_alegria.htm (854 words)

	NPR : Lessons from Jazz Legend Wayne Shorter
		"Wayne talks like he plays, in a kind of improvised cosmic poetry: there are frequent references to obscure science fiction books and films, and deep thoughts that lead to occasional bursts of insight," Mercer says.
		When Danilo Perez thought Wayne was safely immersed in the chanting, he tiptoed into the front of his bandleader’s dressing room and rummaged around for the wine supply.
		In Wayne's favorite movie, The Red Shoes, the ballerina protagonist, Vicky, couldn’t make the choice between her husband and dancing, between life and art.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4520032 (708 words)

	Wayne Shorter - Verve Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		And that stuck with me.” Shorter on soprano is pushed to some ecstatic heights on this tune by Blade's powerhouse traversing of the kit.
		Shorter made his recording debut as a leader in 1959 for the Vee Jay label and in 1964 cut the first of a string of important recordings for the Blue Note label.
		After the tragic loss of his wife in 1996 (she was aboard the ill-fated Paris-bound flight TWA 800), Shorter returned to the scene with 1997's 1+1, an intimate duet recording with pianist and former Miles Davis quintet bandmate Herbie Hancock.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /verve/artist.asp?aid=2919 (2131 words)

	Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer
		The simplest thing to do with Wayne Shorter is reside in what he calls “glittering generalities” and not think about him in terms as challenging as his career.
		Shorter responds to these questions, and more importantly the answers to them that others have provided, with an uncharacteristically pithy comment: “I think it’s a sound bite.” He continues to elucidate but ends up making the issue more complicated.
		Shorter has survived better than most in a music and a creative form that has claimed more and more victims with less and less to show for it.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=17861 (1223 words)

	NPR : Saxophone Legend Wayne Shorter
		The Tavis Smiley Show, August 14, 2003 ·; Wayne Shorter seems to have always had that curve in the personality that marks so many of the most original thinkers in music.
		Shorter's collaborations with Davis marked a new direction in the development of jazz -- one that would lead to a controversial style dubbed Fusion, which relied heavily on electric instruments that gave the music something of a pop feel.
		Shorter's composition "Swee-Pea" is on the list of the top 300 jazz songs ever -- a list compiled by NPR staff and music critics.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1395203 (426 words)

	Jazzmatazz Review - Blue Note RVG Editions Sept 2000
		Wayne Shorter was a very busy musician in 1964 and 1965.
		The All Seeing Eye, recorded in October 1965, was Shorter's largest acoustic recording, with four horns (Freddie Hubbard, Wayne, Grachun Moncur III and James Spaulding) and a rhythm section (Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers).
		Wayne plays throughout with an intense, urgent, almost vocal intensity on his asymmetrical compositions.
	jazzmatazz.home.att.net /reviews.p/R0010a.html (1315 words)

	'The All Seeing Eye' by Wayne Shorter on Etherbeat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Along with Shorter's energized tenor, there are strong contributions from several Bue Note regulars of the period, including trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, altoist James Spaulding, and trombonist Grachan Moncur III.
		While much of Wayne Shorter's other albums neatly fit into the conventions of jazz, 1965's "The All Seeing Eye" defies those conventions and stands as the most challenging and most daring record of his career with Blue Note.
		Shorter's work here will probably be more interesting to followers of avant-garde jazz than to mainstream-leaning fans (to whom I would steer toward a number of his other albums, such as SPEAK NO EVIL).
	www.etherbeat.com /albuminfo/index.cfm/albumID/125 (848 words)

	Wayne Shorter - IMN World
		Switching to tenor saxophone, shorter formed a teenage band in Newark called The Jazz Informers and later got some invaluable bandstand experience with the Jackie Bland Band, a progressive Newark orchestra that specialized in bebop.
		The two spent 1998 touring as a duet and by the summer of 2001 Wayne began touring as the leader of a talented young lineup featuring pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade, each a celebrated recording artist and bandleader in his own right.
		Shorter sees his current recording, the live Beyond the Sound Barrier, as part of a creative continuum.
	www.imnworld.com /IMN/artist_view/49 (1116 words)

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