Wayne Shorter: Legendary jazz saxophonist dies at 89

One of the top jazz saxophonists, Wayne Shorter, has died successful Los Angeles astatine the property of 89.

A well-known fig connected the jazz circuit successful the precocious 1950s, Shorter is credited with shaping overmuch of 20th Century jazz music.

The 12-time Grammy grant victor played alongside respective greats, including Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock.

He died surrounded by his household connected Thursday, his publicist confirmed.

Tributes that poured successful from societal media shared a communal sentiment: gone, but not forgotten.

In the 1950s, helium played with the Jazz Messengers among the likes of Blakey, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard, yet becoming the group's philharmonic director.

But successful 1964 helium was swooped distant aft respective attempts by jazz fable Miles Davis to go portion of Davis' First Great Quintet. It was determination helium played alongside the prolific pianist Hancock.

Shorter had besides released solo albums arsenic aboriginal arsenic 1959, including the acclaimed Speak No Evil, Night Dreamer and JuJu.

Recording solo albums gave him much originative freedom. He began fusing jazz with stone and Latin music, birthing the sounds admired successful his adjacent philharmonic radical Weather Report.

Adding funk and R&B grooves, successful 1977 Shorter's Heavy Weather medium went platinum and reached the US apical 30 charts. He besides played with the Rolling Stones that twelvemonth connected their medium Brides to Babylon.

He re-united with Davis - arsenic good arsenic Hubbard and Hancock - successful the Second Great Quartet successful the precocious 70s and recorded the 1994 Grammy-winning medium A Tribute to Miles, pursuing Davis' death.

Wayne Shorter was calved successful Newark, New Jersey, successful 1933, and initially played the clarinet astatine property 15. Soon aft helium moved connected to tenor and soprano connected saxophone and studied euphony astatine assemblage earlier spending 2 years successful the US Army.

Among the twelve Grammy awards helium won, Shorter received a Lifetime Achievement grant successful 2015.