| Hosted by | Yale University Bands |
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| Details | The Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director, will open its season on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, featuring the music of Wayne Shorter. Admission is free / no tickets required. American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Wayne Shorter (1933 – 2023) came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey’s “Jazz Messengers,” for whom he eventually became the primary composer. In 1964, he joined Miles Davis’ “Second Great Quintet,” and then co-founded the jazz fusion band “Weather Report” in 1970. He recorded more than twenty albums as a bandleader. Many Shorter compositions have become jazz standards, and his music has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise, and commendation. He was the winner of 12 GRAMMY awards and was acclaimed for his mastery of the soprano saxophone after switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s and beginning an extended reign in 1970 as DownBeat’s annual poll winner on that instrument. New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff described Shorter in 2008 as “probably jazz’s greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser.” |
| Admission | Free/no tickets required |
| Location | Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall |
| More Info | info link |