“Just before he died,” recalls Wayne Shorter, “Miles Davis called me and he said, ‘Wayne, write something for me with a chamber orchestra, strings and everything. But put a window in so I can get out ...

Saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter is a living jazz legend—his career includes stints with Art Blakey's The Jazz Messengers, with trumpeter Miles Davis (including his last great quintet, as well as ...

Wayne Shorter likes to tell a story about going to see Charlie Parker, the mercurial titan of bebop, sometime around 1951. Shorter was 18 at the time — a saxophonist, like Parker, and a bop obsessive ...

Emanon, a full-length graphic novel co-written by Wayne Shorter and included with his new album of the same name, tells the story of a “rogue philosopher” who travels between worlds, spreading a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Wayne Shorter’s seemingly otherworldly aura gains heft and substance on this engrossing triple album and its ...

With his most trusted cohorts standing shoulder-to-shoulder with him—pianist Danilo Pérez, ever-ready bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade—Wayne Shorter knows, beyond instinct, that any ...