Wayne Shorter, the quintessential saxophonist and composer whose sound and improvisational playing enhanced American music, along with his many compositions, which became the definitive grail of jazz standards, died on March 2. He was 89. Shorter died in a hospital in Los Angeles, according to his representative, Alisse Kingsley. No cause of death was given. […]
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