Europe 1 with AFP 7:46 p.m., March 2, 2023
American jazzman Wayne Shorter died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 89.
The one whom the "New York Times" describes in his obituary as an "innovative", "intrepid" and "enigmatic" musician has played with the greatest, including Miles Davis, and excelled on soprano saxophone as well as tenor.
American jazzman Wayne Shorter, saxophonist considered one of the greatest jazz composers in the United States, died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 89.
His agent Alisse Kingsley confirmed this to AFP in a written message, but without revealing the cause of death of this musician born August 25, 1933 in Newark, near New York, and whose influence on jazz lasted. more than half a century.
One of the last living jazz legends
The one whom the
New York Times
describes in his obituary as an "innovative", "intrepid" and "enigmatic" musician has played with the greatest, including Miles Davis, and excelled on both soprano and tenor saxophone, especially with his group. Weather Report.
He was one of the last living legends of jazz, a musical genre he had embraced in the 1950s, after a youth as a clarinettist.
With his brother Alan Shorter (1932-1988), they played bebop and nicknamed themselves "Mr Weird" ("Monsieur Bizarre") and "Doc Strange" ("Docteur Etrange"), wearing dark glasses in the half-light of clubs. jazz.