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Wayne Shorter, the storied saxophonist considered one of America’s greatest jazz composers and among the genre’s leading risk-takers, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89.
Shorter’s publicist Alisse Kingsley confirmed his death to AFP, without specifying the cause.
The enigmatic jazz elder performed with fellow legend Miles Davis and went on to become a leading bandleader on both soprano and tenor sax, including with his group Weather Report.
He was one of the last living jazz greats to have cut his teeth in the genre’s 1950s heyday when it was both the soundtrack at dance halls and gained ground in intellectual circles.
