Wayne Shorter, The Soothsayer

Remembering a master composer whose heart always belonged to the band

Wayne Shorter during the 1964 session for Lee Morgan’s Search For The New Land. (Francis Wolff / Mosaic Images)

Wayne Shorter transitioned yesterday, at 89. Here is the obituary I wrote for the New York Times, linked as a “gift” for anyone running up against the paywall.

Shorter shouldered a handful of terrific epithets in his eventful lifetime: Mr. Weir…