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  Wayne Shorter, Jazz Saxophone Pioneer, Dies At 89

  Shorter won 11 Grammy awards and in 2015 was given a lifetime achievement Grammy.

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  Wayne Shorter, Legendary Jazz Composer/Saxophonist, Dies at 89

  The nimble performer was a leading light in the hard-bop and jazz-rock fusion movements.

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  Wayne Shorter, revered musician and composer acclaimed as one of the finest jazz saxophonists – obituary

  Wayne Shorter, who has died aged 89, was one of the most original and adventurous jazz musicians of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Equally celebrated as a saxophonist and as a composer, he was a moving spirit in three influential bands – Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report – and leader of a series of his own ensembles.

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  Iconic Jazz Saxophonist Wayne Shorter Dies at 89

  Vincent West/ReutersWayne Shorter, the award-winning jazz saxophone player and composer, died Thursday in Los Angeles at 89.Shorter won an astonishing 12 Grammy Awards during his lifetime and is best known for his innovative music and contributions to celebrated jazz albums in the 1960s and ’70s.Born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, Shorter began his career in the mid-1950s when he joined Art Blakely’s Jazz Messengers after graduating from New York University with a degree in music. In the 1960s,

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  Wayne Shorter, influential jazz saxophonist and composer, dies at 89

  Wayne Shorter, universally acknowledged as one of the most original and influential jazz artists of the last six decades, died Thursday in L.A. at 89.

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  Wayne Shorter, master composer of jazz, dies aged 89

  (Reuters) -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. His publicist, Alisse Kingsley, said he died in Los Angeles, without citing a cause. Shorter made his name playing the tenor sax with drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the late 1950s and joined trumpeter Miles Davis' influential 1960s quintet alongside pianist

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  Wayne Shorter, Jazz Legend Who Collaborated With Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell, Dead at 89

  Prolific Grammy-winning saxophonist also recorded with Steely Dan and Herbie Hancock in addition to his own renowned albums and work with supergroup Weather Report

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  Wayne Shorter, Jazz Titan and Saxophonist of Weather Report, Dies at 89

  Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, one of the most distinctive voices of his jazz generation as a soloist, composer and bandleader, died Thursday at a hospital in Los Angeles, his publicist confirmed to Variety. He was 89. Initially counted among hard bop’s foremost young lions of the early ’60s, Shorter developed a personal style that mated forceful […]

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  Wayne Shorter, Giant Of Jazz Saxophone, Dies At 89

  Herbie Hancock wrote of Shorter that he could 'synthesize all the history of jazz into a very special, very alive, musical expression.'

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  Wayne Shorter, Legendary Jazz Saxophonist, Dead at 89

  The 11-time Grammy winner played in Miles Davis' quintet and co-founded Weather Report. Wayne Shorter, Legendary Jazz Saxophonist, Dead at 89 Consequence Staff

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