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Shorter with his wife, Carolina dos Santos, at an awards ceremony for the Polar Music Prize at in Stockholm in 2017
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Wayne Shorter performed at the Town and Country Club in Kentish Town, London, in 1987. All photos: Getty Images
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Shorter, left, performed with Miles Davis in 1967 in Hammersmith, London, after joining Davis's second "great quintet"
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Shorter with the members of the hugely successful jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1978
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From left, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock and Shorter held concerts titled Emissaries For Peace in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Yokohama and Osaka in 2005
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From left, Hancock, Quincy Jones, Shorter, Joni Mitchell and Sting at an event in Los Angeles in 2007
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Shorter received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2015
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Shorter with his wife, Carolina dos Santos, at an awards ceremony for the Polar Music Prize at in Stockholm in 2017
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Wayne Shorter performed at the Town and Country Club in Kentish Town, London, in 1987. All photos: Getty Images
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Shorter, left, performed with Miles Davis in 1967 in Hammersmith, London, after joining Davis's second "great quintet"
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/3HX3BI2QN5C3NKGOK53XGFGAPM.jpg?smart=true&auth=525bc3ab7c6e6ba3ab00a75f30eeef0184183f0e68ac11119599ac8e98f7ecf6&width=400&height=225)
Shorter with the members of the hugely successful jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1978
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From left, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock and Shorter held concerts titled Emissaries For Peace in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Yokohama and Osaka in 2005
![](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/MA3PJVDPPBFHBD3PMVZIY4V3CE.jpg?smart=true&auth=d7bb46d2a991799624e808b62e940d3865c8c378973363917106463632d890d0&width=400&height=225)
From left, Hancock, Quincy Jones, Shorter, Joni Mitchell and Sting at an event in Los Angeles in 2007
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Shorter received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2015
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Shorter with his wife, Carolina dos Santos, at an awards ceremony for the Polar Music Prize at in Stockholm in 2017
Wayne Shorter, pioneering jazz saxophonist, dies at 89
The artist made his debut in 1959 and was a member of two of the genre's most seminal groups
AP
03 March, 2023
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