The one whom the New York Times describes in his obituary as an "innovative", "intrepid" and "enigmatic" musician has played with the greatest, including Miles Davis, and excelled on both soprano and tenor saxophone, especially with his group. Weather Report.
He was one of the last living legends of jazz, a musical genre he had embraced in the 1950s, after a youth as a clarinettist.
With his brother Alan Shorter (1932-1988), they played bebop and nicknamed themselves "Mr Weird" ("Monsieur Bizarre") and "Doc Strange" ("Docteur Etrange"), wearing dark glasses in the half-light of clubs. jazz.
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