When Dorsay Alavi started working on what would become “Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity,” she had to confront how she was going to tell the story of a musician who had contributed 60 years to American ...

Composer, saxophonist and devout Buddhist Wayne Shorter died last week at age 89. His visionary composition and improvisation shaped not only 20th-century jazz but also pop, world and classical music.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired the jazz great’s scores, original artwork, letters and more, providing a rare glimpse of an imaginative mind. By Hank Shteamer For ...

Director Dorsay Alavi followed Wayne Shorter for 15 years. She filmed the star jazz saxophonist and composer at concerts, music festivals, award ceremonies and his home in California. Shorter, whose ...

There comes a time in every great artist’s life when all the lessons they’ve learned go out the window and everything starts flowing on raw emotion. For Wayne Shorter, one such moment occurred during ...

‘There is no such thing as a beginning and no such thing as an end,” saxophonist Wayne Shorter told me during an interview in 2005. The next night, leading the magnificent quartet that defined his ...

Like the shape-shifting music he made throughout his life, Wayne Shorter was always pushing forward, always seeking new aural adventures and challenges. His death Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of ...

The voice, tone, phrasing—in effect, the signature sound of the saxophone has distinguished a number of artists. The late Wayne Shorter, having just passed away at 89, has been a profound force of ...

In a 2014 interview, the saxophonist Wayne Shorter was asked how often his working quartet rehearsed. His reply was evasive and illuminating: “How do you rehearse the future?” This was classic Shorter ...

Shorter, who died March 2, was inspired by film and literature, as much as by sounds. One of the great musical minds of our time, he had a profound influence on the course of jazz. GROSS: Jazz ...