![]() ![]() At age 12, he won a citywide art contest and on his teacher’s recommendation, he applied to Arts High School in pursuit of becoming a visual artist. He had an early interest in music and his father encouraged him to study clarinet, which he did, although his first love at that time was art. His mother Louise worked for a furrier, and his father Joseph Shorter was a welder at a Singer sewing-machine factory. ![]() Shorter was born on August 25, 1933, in Newark, New Jersey. “We have a phrase : hom nim yoh,” ‘From this moment forward is the first day of my life,’ so put 100 percent into the moment that you’re in because the present moment is the only time when you can change the past and the future,” he said in the 2013 NPR interview. Shorter’s later musical concepts were partly based on his spiritual teachings of Buddhism. I like hard to do because faith is to fear nothing.” ![]() During a discussion of “Philosophy Through Life and Jazz” on International Jazz Day in 2014, he said, “Life wants to create and all concepts negotiating reality comes through in your work. His music boosts an openness, a freedom to dance on the edge of his notes without a net, falling back and rejoicing in the eye of his hurricane, or-more appropriately-swinging in the middle of his “All Seeing Eye (Blue Note 1966).” He was our inter-galactic admiral, who took us on wondrous journeys not to be duplicated. His sound was all-engrossing, straight-ahead, fusion, futurism, blues, and avant garde edge. Shorter played music that made you listen. I cherish his contribution to the universe.” “Now, thinking back about this unusual character, the many unique compositions and approach to harmonic progressions, those uncanny statements emerged at the most unusual times-he will be missed but never forgotten. “Wayne Shorter was a serious, intense individual, but when that rare moment came when he smiled or laughed, it was like the sun had risen on a cloudy day,” said NEA Jazz Master, bassist, composer, and former bandmate Reggie Workman. Scott retired from his seven-decade performing career due to health reasons, but followed a longtime ambition: writing an opera titled “Iphigenia,” with Esperanza Spalding writing the libretto and scenic design by architect Frank Gehry, which premiered in 2021. In 2022, Park Place in Newark, New Jersey (home of WBGO radio), was renamed Wayne Shorter Way. At this year’s 2023 Grammy Awards, the NEA Jazz Master won his 12th Grammy, with pianist Leo Genovese, for “Best Improvised Jazz Solo,” and was nominated for Best Live Instrumental Jazz Album for “Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival” with Terri Lyne Carrington, Genovese, and Esperanza Spalding. As Roberta Flack’s song states, he chose “to dream the impossible dream,” which propelled him to the stars. Shorter died in a hospital in Los Angeles, according to his representative, Alisse Kingsley. Wayne Shorter, the quintessential saxophonist and composer whose sound and improvisational playing enhanced American music, along with his many compositions, which became the definitive grail of jazz standards, died on March 2. ![]()
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