![]() ![]() To trace the 12-time GRAMMY winner's artistic evolution is to tell the story of the music as it evolved and propagated through the latter half of the 20th century. In his 89-year life, Shorter irrevocably altered so many sectors of jazz and related forms that he seemed to inhabit many bodies at once. This evocation of reincarnation not only speaks to Shorter's elaborate psychospiritual universe - he followed Nichiren Buddhism for half a century - but his multitudes as an artistic behemoth. When the world learned of the pioneering saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter 's death on March 2, it did so partly through a quote from the maestro itself: "It's time to go get a new body and come back to continue the mission."
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