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Born in Newark, New Jersey, he had his first great jazz epiphany as a teenager: "I remember seeing Lester Young when I was 15 years old. It was a Norman Granz jazz at the Philarmonic show in Newark and he was late coming to the theater and when he finally did show up, he had the pork pie hat and everything. So then we were trying to figure out how to get in to the theater from the fire escape around the back.
We eventually got into the mezzanine and saw that whole show- Stan Kenton and Dizzy Gillespie bands together on stage doing 'Peanut Vendor' Charlie Parker with strings doing 'Laura' and stuff like that. And Russell Jacquet… Ilinois Jacquet, he was there doing his thing; that whole scene impressed me so much that I just decided, 'Hey man, let me get a clarinet, so I got one when I was 16 and that's when I started music".
In 1964 Miles Davis invited Wayne to go on the road, he joined Miles Davis Quintet for 6 years and in 1970, Shorter co-founded the group Weather Report which remained the premier fusion group through the 70's and into the early 80's Grammy Award-winning double live L.P.
WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET FEATURING DANILO PEREZ, JOHN PATITUCCI & BRIAN BLADE
SOCIAL MEDIA
