Wayne Shorter, jazz legend and N.J. native, dead at 89
Editor’s note: This story contains excerpts from a 2022 profile on Wayne Shorter, titled “Jazz legend Wayne Shorter took the road less traveled. Wayne Shorter, the virtuosic jazz saxophonist and composer, died Thursday in Los Angeles, according to multiple reports. “He’s surely one of the most creative people I’ve ever met,” said Christian McBride, the Grammy-winning jazz bassist and Artistic Advisor for Jazz Programming at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center, in an interview with NJ Advance Media last year. And when his parents would ask little Wayne what he’d done all day, he’d simply say “nothing.”“That nothing is what I wanted to keep,” Shorter tells NJ Advance Media. “Wayne Shorter is one of Newark’s legendary natives,” Mayor Ras Baraka said, in a statement provided to NJ Advance Media, last year.
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