Shorter, a master of hard bop and contemporary jazz, died Thursday in Los Angeles
The Newark native was best known for his genre-busting work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet and later co-founding the fusion outfit Weather Report.
NJ Advance Media spoke to Shorter himself in 2022, on phone from his L.A. home, who discussed his New Jersey upbringing, and how the city cultivated his love for music and the unknown. After a drawing he titled “The Football Game” won a blue ribbon and was highlighted in The Star-Ledger, Shorter was encouraged to enroll at Arts High School in Newark, where he graduated in 1952.“I played so much hooky,” he said. “I would walk by the school and go right into the [Adams] theater.”
Those adventurous players began to inhabit Shorter’s imagination, sharing space with comic book heroes; his high school yearbook called him a “bebop fiend,” referencing the heady style that would inform his music for decades to come.
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