Wayne Shorter
- MatchWayne Shorter
- 100%Joe Henderson
- 96%Lee Morgan
- 92%Freddie Hubbard
- 92%Hank Mobley
- 88%Cole Porter
- 88%Duke Ellington
- 88%Horace Silver
- 88%Sonny Rollins
- 78%Jackie McLean
- 76%Dexter Gordon
Biography
25 August 1933, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Shorter first played clarinet, taking up the tenor saxophone during his late teens. He studied music at New York University during the mid-50s before serving in the US army for two years. During his student days he had played with various bands, including that led by Horace Silver, and on his discharge encountered John Coltrane, with whom he developed many theoretical views on music. He was also briefly with Maynard Ferguson. In 1959 Shorter became a... Read more