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- NAME: Wayne Shorter
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Saxophonist
- BIRTH DATE: August 25, 1933 (Age: 79)
- EDUCATION: New York University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Newark, New Jersey
- ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo
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Wayne Shorter is a jazz musician and composer, a major jazz saxophonist and a pioneer of jazz-rock fusion music.
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Playing with harmonic and rhythmic sophistication, Wayne Shorter spent brief periods in the Horace Silver quintet and Maynard Ferguson before his first major association, with Art Blakey's hard-bop Jazz Messengers. He joined Miles Davis's modal jazz quintet as a tenor saxophonist in 1964 and stayed with him during Davis's early fusion music experiments, leaving in 1970 as a soprano saxophonist.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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