Wayne Shorter, a towering figure in jazz whose bold compositions and highly influential saxophone style shepherded the genre through more than half a century, died Thursday in Los Angeles at age 89.

Blue Note is adept at finding fresh ways of repackaging its back catalogue—the label has to be, because in not so many years time, every dodgy operator on the planet will be able to punt the music out ...

I listened again to Miles Davis‘s album Nefertiti the other day. Like Davis’s album Water Babies, all the compositions were by saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Tracks like “Fall” are ambiguous and strange; ...

The mid-1960's were a heady time for Wayne Shorter. Newly enshrined as the permanent heir to Coltrane in Miles Davis's working group, he was the final puzzle piece to the band that would spur Davis to ...

After brief runs with the Horace Silver Quintet and the Maynard Ferguson big band, Shorter’s career began in earnest in 1959 when he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, a four-year tenure that found ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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, ...

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who worked with both jazz and rock legends during his six-decade career, died Thursday morning at age 89. No cause of death was given. In 1970, Shorter co-founded the jazz ...

Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist and composer who was a major figure in the development of modern jazz, died Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 89. His death was confirmed to The New York Times ...

Wayne Shorter, whose colorful compositional style and searching improvisations on the tenor saxophone altered the direction of jazz, died in Los Angeles on Thursday. He was 89 years old. Known for his ...