Wayne Shorter discography

This is a comprehensive list of the discography of the jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter as a leader and sideman.

As leader/co-leader

Recording date	Title / Co-leader	Label	Year released	Notes
1959-11-09, -10	Introducing Wayne Shorter (also released as Blues a la Carte)	Vee-Jay	1959
1960-10-11	Second Genesis	Vee-Jay	1974
1961-11-02, -06	Wayning Moments	Vee-Jay	1962
1964-04-29	Night Dreamer	Blue Note	1964	Reissued CD (1987) includes an alternate take
1964-08-03	JuJu	Blue Note	1965	Reissued CD (1996) includes alternate takes
1964-12-24	Speak No Evil	Blue Note	1966	Reissued CDs (1999, 2013) include alternate takes
1965-03-04	The Soothsayer	Blue Note	1979	LT series. Reissued CD (1990) includes an alternate take.
1965-06-14	Et Cetera	Blue Note	1980	LT series
1965-10-15	The All Seeing Eye	Blue Note	1966
1966-02-03, -24	Adam's Apple	Blue Note	1967	Reissued CD (1987) includes an unreleased material
1967-03-10	Schizophrenia	Blue Note	1969
1969-08-29, 1969-09-02	Super Nova	Blue Note	1969
1970-04-03	Moto Grosso Feio	Blue Note	1974	LA series
1970-08-26	Odyssey of Iska	Blue Note	1971
1974-09-12	Native Dancer (featuring Milton Nascimento)	Columbia	1975
1985	Atlantis	Columbia	1985
1986	Phantom Navigator	Columbia	1987
1988	Joy Ryder	Columbia	1988
1988-07-14	Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 (with Carlos Santana)	Vap (Japan)	2005	[2CD, DVD-Video] Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
1992-09-19, 1994	A Tribute to Miles (with Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Wallace Roney)	Qwest/Reprise/Warner Bros.	1994	Partially live
1994 - 1995	High Life	Verve	1995
1997	1+1 (with Herbie Hancock)	Verve	1997
2001-07-14, -20, -24	Footprints Live!	Verve	2002	Live at Vitoria-Gasteiz jazz festival and Jardins Palais Longchamps
2003?	Alegría	Verve	2003
2002 – 2004	Beyond the Sound Barrier (as Wayne Shorter Quartet)	Verve	2005	Live recordings selected from the tour in North America, Europe and Asia
2010-12-08, 2011	Without a Net (as Wayne Shorter Quartet)	Blue Note	2013	Live recordings selected from Europe tour, except for 1 studio recording track
2016	Emanon	Blue Note	2018	[3CD] Partially live at The Barbican, London (disk 2 & 3)
2017-09-03	Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival (with Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese)	Candid	2022	Live at Detroit International Jazz Festival

As a member

The Young Lions
with Frank Strozier, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Bob Cranshaw, Albert Heath and Louis Hayes

The Young Lions (Vee-Jay, 1961) – rec. 1960

The Jazz Messengers

1959: Africaine (Blue Note, 1981)
1959: Paris Jam Session (Fontana, 1961)
1960: A Night in Tunisia (Blue Note, 1961)
1960: Like Someone in Love (Blue Note)
1960: Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World (Blue Note, 1967)
1960: The Big Beat (Blue Note, 1960)
1961: Roots & Herbs (Blue Note, 1970)
1961: A Day with Art Blakey (Baybridge (Japan), 1981)
1961: Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! (Impulse!, 1961)
1961: Buhaina's Delight (Blue Note, 1963)
1961: Mosaic (Blue Note, 1962)
1961: The Freedom Rider (Blue Note, 1964)
1961: The Witch Doctor (Blue Note, 1969)
1961: Tokyo 1961 (Solar, 2014)
1961: Paris Jazz Concert: Olympia May 13th 1961 (Trema (F), 1992)
1962: Caravan (Riverside, 1963)
1961-62: Three Blind Mice (Blue Note, 1962)
1963: Ugetsu (Riverside, 1963)
1963: Golden Boy (Colpix, 1963)
1964: Free for All (Blue Note, 1965)
1964: Kyoto (Riverside, 1966)
1964: Indestructible (Blue Note, 1966)

Weather Report

1971: Weather Report (Columbia, 1971)
1972: I Sing the Body Electric (Columbia, 1972)
1972: Live in Tokyo (CBS/Sony, 1972)
1973: Sweetnighter (Columbia, 1973)
1973-74: Mysterious Traveller (Columbia, 1974)
1975: Tale Spinnin' (Columbia, 1975)
1975-76: Black Market (Columbia, 1976)
1976-77: Heavy Weather (Columbia, 1977)
1978: Mr. Gone (Columbia, 1978)
1979: 8:30 (Columbia, 1979)
1980: Night Passage (Columbia, 1980)
1981: Weather Report (Columbia, 1982)
1983?: Procession (Columbia, 1983)
1983: Domino Theory (Columbia, 1984)
1984: Sportin' Life (Columbia, 1985)
1985: This Is This! (Columbia, 1986)

The V.S.O.P. Quintet

1977: The Quintet (Columbia, 1977)
1977: Tempest in the Colosseum (CBS/Sony, 1977)
1979: Live Under the Sky (CBS/Sony, 1979)[2CD]
1979: Five Stars (CBS/Sony, 1979)

The Manhattan Project
with Gil Goldstein, Lenny White, Michel Petrucciani, Pete Levin and Stanley Clarke

The Manhattan Project (Blue Note, 1990) – rec. 1989

As sideman

With Miles Davis

1959-62 Jingle Bell Jazz (Columbia, 1962) – on "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)"
1963 The Giants of Jazz (Columbia, 1963) – on "Devil May Care," the one Davis track on this Columbia anthology;^[1] also released as single B-side of "Seven Steps to Heaven"^[2]
1964: Miles in Berlin (Columbia, 1965)
1965: E.S.P. (Columbia, 1963)
1965: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (Legacy, 1995)
1966: Miles Smiles (Columbia, 1967)
1967: Sorcerer (Columbia, 1967)
1967: Nefertiti (Columbia, 1968)
1966-67: Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Legacy, 2015)
1967: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (Legacy, 2011)
1967-68: Water Babies (Columbia, 1976)
1968: Miles in the Sky (Columbia, 1968)
1968: Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1969)
1969: In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969)
1969: 1969 Miles Festiva De Juan Pins (CBS/Sony, 1993)
1969: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Legacy, 2013)
1969: Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)
1970 Live at the Fillmore East (Columbia, 2001)
compilation: Big Fun (Columbia, 1974)
compilation: Circle in the Round (Columbia, 1979)
compilation: Directions (Columbia, 1980)

With Herbie Hancock

1975: Man-Child (Columbia, 1975)
1976: VSOP (Columbia, 1977)
1977: VSOP: The Quintet (Columbia, 1975)
1977: VSOP: Tempest in the Colosseum (CBS/Sony, 1977)
1979: VSOP: Live Under the Sky (CBS/Sony, 1979)
1983: Sound-System (Columbia, 1984)
1985: Round Midnight – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Columbia, 1986)
1998: Gershwin's World (Verve, 1998)
2001: Future2Future (Transparent, 2001)
2006-07: River: The Joni Letters (Verve, 2007)
2010: The Imagine Project (Hancock, 2010)

With Freddie Hubbard

1961: Ready for Freddie (Blue Note, 1962)
1962: Here to Stay (Blue Note, 1976)
1963: The Body & the Soul (Impulse!, 1964)

With Joni Mitchell

1977: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (Asylum, 1977)
1978-79: Mingus (Asylum, 1979)
1982?: Wild Things Run Fast (Geffen, 1982)
1984-85: Dog Eat Dog (Geffen, 1985)
1986-87: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm (Geffen, 1988)
1989-90: Night Ride Home (Geffen, 1991)
1993: Turbulent Indigo (Reprise, 1994)
1997: Taming the Tiger (Reprise, 1998)
1999: Both Sides Now (Reprise, 2000)
2002: Travelogue (Nonesuch, 2002)

With Lee Morgan

1964: Search for the New Land (Blue Note, 1966)
1965: The Gigolo (Blue Note, 1968)
1966: Delightfulee (Blue Note, 1967)
1967: Standards (Blue Note, 1998)
1967-69: The Procrastinator (Blue Note, 1978)

With Milton Nascimento

Milton (A&M, 1976)
A Barca Dos Amantes (Barclay, 1986)
Yauaretê (Columbia, 1987) – 1 track

With Jaco Pastorius

1975: Jaco Pastorius (Epic, 1976)
1980-81: Word of Mouth (Warner Bros., 1981)
1980-82: Holiday for Pans (Sound Hills, 1993)

With Carlos Santana

The Swing of Delight (Columbia, 1980)[2LP]
Spirits Dancing in the Flesh (Columbia, 1990) – guest

With McCoy Tyner

1968: Expansions (Blue Note, 1970)
1970: Extensions (Blue Note, 1973)

With Joe Zawinul

Zawinul (Atlantic, 1971) – rec. 1970
Mauthausen - Vom großen Sterben hören (ESC, 2000) – 1 track

With others

Donald Byrd, Free Form (Blue Note, 1966) – rec. 1961
Billy Childs, Map to the Treasure (Sony Masterworks, 2014)
Pino Daniele, Bella 'mbriana (EMI Italiana, 1982)
Lou Donaldson, Lush Life (Blue Note, 1967)
Benny Golson, Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1962)
Gil Evans, The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964) – rec. 1963-64
Don Henley, The End of the Innocence (Geffen, 1989) – rec. 1987-89
Toninho Horta, Diamond Land (Verve Forecast, 1988)
Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note, 2016) – rec. 2015
J.J. Johnson, Heroes (Verve, 1998) – rec. 1996
Wynton Kelly, Kelly Great (Vee Jay, 1959)
Michael Landau, Tales From The Bulge (Shobi Corporation, 1990)
Bill Laswell, Bahia Black Ritual Beating System (Axiom, 1992)^[3]
Lionel Loueke, Karibu (Blue Note, 2008) – rec. 2007
Grachan Moncur III, Some Other Stuff (Blue Note, 1965) – rec. 1964
Michel Petrucciani, The Power of Three (Blue Note, 1987) – rec. 1986
The Rolling Stones, Bridges to Babylon (Virgin, 1997) – 1 track
Masahiko Satoh, Randooga (Epic, 1990) – live
John Scofield, Quiet (Verve, 1996)
Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord, 2021)
Steely Dan, Aja (ABC, 1977) – 1 track
Bobby Timmons, The Soul Man! (Prestige, 1966)
Kazumi Watanabe, Kilowatt (Gramavision, 1989)
Buster Williams, Something More (In+Out, 1989)
Tony Williams, Spring (Blue Note, 1966) – rec. 1965

References

^ "The Giants of Jazz (Musical LP, 1963)". Worldcat. Retrieved 2013-07-08
^ "Singles Reviews: Jazz". Billboard. September 14, 1963. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
^ "Bahia Black - Ritual Beating System". Discogs. 28 January 1992.

Wayne Shorter

Vee-Jay
albums

Introducing Wayne Shorter (1959, aka Blues a la Carte)
Second Genesis (1960)
Wayning Moments (1961)
The Young Lions (1960, with Frank Strozier, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Bob Cranshaw, Albert Heath & Louis Hayes)

Blue Note
albums

Night Dreamer (1964)
JuJu (1964)
Speak No Evil (1964)
Et Cetera (1965)
The Soothsayer (1965)
Adam's Apple (1966)
The All Seeing Eye (1966)
Schizophrenia (1967)
Super Nova (1969)
Moto Grosso Feio (1970)
Odyssey of Iska (1970)
The Manhattan Project (1989, with Michel Petrucciani, Gil Goldstein, Pete Levin, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White)
Without a Net (2013)
Emanon (2018)

Columbia
albums

Native Dancer (1974, feat. Milton Nascimento)
Atlantis (1985)
Phantom Navigator (1986)
Joy Ryder (1988)

Verve
albums

High Life (1995)
1+1 (1997, with Herbie Hancock)
Alegría (2003)

Live
albums

Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 (1988)
Footprints Live! (2001)
Beyond the Sound Barrier (2002–04)
Without a Net (2010)
Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival (2022)

Compositions

"Footprints" (1966)

v t e Weather Report
Joe Zawinul Wayne Shorter Miroslav Vitouš Airto Moreira Alphonse Mouzon Dom Um Romão Eric Gravatt Greg Errico Alphonso Johnson Leon "Ndugu" Chancler Chester Thompson Jaco Pastorius Alex Acuña Don Alias Manolo Badrena Peter Erskine Robert Thomas Jr. Omar Hakim Victor Bailey Mino Cinélu Narada Michael Walden
Studio albums	Weather Report (1971) I Sing the Body Electric (1972) Sweetnighter (1973) Mysterious Traveller (1974) Tale Spinnin' (1975) Black Market (1976) Heavy Weather (1977) Mr. Gone (1978) Night Passage (1980) Weather Report (1982) Procession (1983) Domino Theory (1984) Sportin' Life (1985) This Is This! (1986)
Live albums	Live in Tokyo (1972) 8:30 (1979) Live and Unreleased (2002) The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978–1981 (2015)
Compilations	Forecast: Tomorrow (2006)
Singles	"Birdland" (1977)
Related	Discography

v t e The Jazz Messengers
Art Blakey Dale Barlow Mickey Bass Terence Blanchard Joanne Brackeen Cameron Brown Donald Brown Bobby Broom Donald Byrd George Cables Buck Clarke Chick Corea Steve Davis Spanky DeBrest Sam Dockery Kenny Dorham Essiet Essiet Robin Eubanks Charles Fambrough Curtis Fuller Carlos Garnett John Gilmore Benny Golson Benny Green Johnny Griffin Bill Hardman Donald Harrison Philip Harper John Hicks Freddie Hubbard Dennis Irwin Javon Jackson Carter Jefferson Geoffrey Keezer Frank Lacy Brian Lynch Branford Marsalis Wynton Marsalis Jackie McLean Jymie Merritt Mulgrew Miller Hank Mobley Lee Morgan Billy Pierce Lonnie Plaxico Valery Ponomarev Wallace Roney Gregory Charles Royal David Schnitter Woody Shaw Clarence Seay Wayne Shorter Horace Silver Victor Sproles Bobby Timmons Jean Toussaint McCoy Tyner Cedar Walton Peter Washington Doug Watkins Bobby Watson James Williams Reggie Workman
Studio albums	The Jazz Messengers (1956) Hard Bop (1957) Ritual (1957) Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... (1957) Cu-Bop (1957) Hard Drive (1957) A Night in Tunisia (1958) Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958) Moanin' (1959) The Big Beat (1960) A Night in Tunisia (1961) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1961) Mosaic (1962) Buhaina's Delight (1963) Caravan (1963) The Freedom Rider (1964) Free for All (1964) Kyoto (1964) Golden Boy (1964) Indestructible (1965) 'S Make It (1965) Soul Finger (1965) Tough! (1966) Like Someone in Love (1967) The Witch Doctor (1969) Roots & Herbs (1970) Child's Dance (1972) Buhaina (1973) Anthenagin (1973) In Walked Sonny (1975) Backgammon (1976) Gypsy Folk Tales (1977) In My Prime Vol. 1 (1978) In My Prime Vol. 2 (1978) Reflections in Blue (1979) Night in Tunisia: Digital Recording (1979) Album of the Year (1981) Oh-By the Way (1984) Blue Night (1985) Feeling Good (1986) Not Yet (1988) I Get a Kick Out of Bu (1988) Chippin' In (1990) One for All (1990)
Live albums	At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1956) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1956) A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers (1957) 1958 – Paris Olympia (1959) At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 & 2 (1959) Art Blakey et les Jazz Messengers au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1960) Paris Jam Session (1960) Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 and 2 (1960) A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March (1961) Three Blind Mice (1962) Ugetsu (1963) Buttercorn Lady (1966) Jazz Messengers '70 (1970) In This Korner (1978) Live at Montreux and Northsea (1980) One by One (1981) Art Blakey in Sweden (1981) Straight Ahead (1981) Keystone 3 (1982) Live at Kimball's (1985) The Art of Jazz: Live in Leverkusen (1989)
Compilation albums	Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1956) The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956) Drum Suite (1957) Pisces (1979) Africaine (1981) Originally (1982)
Soundtrack albums	Des Femmes Disparaissent (1959) Les liaisons dangereuses 1960 (1960)
Art Blakey solo albums	Blakey (1954)* A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, Vol. 2 & Vol. 3 (1954) Orgy in Rhythm (1957) Art Blakey Big Band (1957) Holiday for Skins (1958) Drums Around the Corner (1959) The African Beat (1962) A Jazz Message (1963) Hold On, I'm Coming (1966) Killer Joe (1981) Bluesiana Triangle (1990)
Related	Discography

v t e Kennedy Center Honorees (2010s)
2010	Merle Haggard Jerry Herman Bill T. Jones Paul McCartney Oprah Winfrey
2011	Barbara Cook Neil Diamond Yo-Yo Ma Sonny Rollins Meryl Streep
2012	Buddy Guy Dustin Hoffman David Letterman Led Zeppelin Natalia Makarova
2013	Martina Arroyo Herbie Hancock Billy Joel Shirley MacLaine Carlos Santana
2014	Al Green Tom Hanks Patricia McBride Sting Lily Tomlin
2015	Carole King George Lucas Rita Moreno Seiji Ozawa Cicely Tyson
2016	Martha Argerich Eagles Al Pacino Mavis Staples James Taylor
2017	Carmen de Lavallade Gloria Estefan LL Cool J Norman Lear Lionel Richie
2018	Cher Philip Glass Reba McEntire Wayne Shorter Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, and Andy Blankenbuehler)
2019	Earth, Wind & Fire Sally Field Linda Ronstadt Sesame Street Michael Tilson Thomas
Complete list 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

v t e Laureates of the Polar Music Prize
1990s	Paul McCartney / the Baltic states (1992) Dizzy Gillespie / Witold Lutosławski (1993) Quincy Jones / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1994) Elton John / Mstislav Rostropovich (1995) Joni Mitchell / Pierre Boulez (1996) Bruce Springsteen / Eric Ericson (1997) Ray Charles / Ravi Shankar (1998) Stevie Wonder / Iannis Xenakis (1999)
2000s	Bob Dylan / Isaac Stern (2000) Burt Bacharach / Robert Moog / Karlheinz Stockhausen (2001) Miriam Makeba / Sofia Gubaidulina (2002) Keith Jarrett (2003) B.B. King / György Ligeti (2004) Gilberto Gil / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (2005) Led Zeppelin / Valery Gergiev (2006) Sonny Rollins / Steve Reich (2007) Pink Floyd / Renée Fleming (2008) Peter Gabriel / José Antonio Abreu / El Sistema (2009)
2010s	Björk / Ennio Morricone (2010) Kronos Quartet / Patti Smith (2011) Paul Simon / Yo-Yo Ma (2012) Youssou N'Dour / Kaija Saariaho (2013) Chuck Berry / Peter Sellars (2014) Emmylou Harris / Evelyn Glennie (2015) Max Martin / Cecilia Bartoli (2016) Sting / Wayne Shorter (2017) Metallica / Afghanistan National Institute of Music (2018) Grandmaster Flash / Anne-Sophie Mutter / Playing for Change (2019)
2020s	Anna Netrebko / Diane Warren (2020) Iggy Pop / Ensemble intercontemporain (2022) Chris Blackwell / Angélique Kidjo / Arvo Pärt (2023) Nile Rodgers / Esa-Pekka Salonen (2024)

v t e Rolf Schock Prize laureates
Logic and philosophy	Willard Van Orman Quine (1993) Michael Dummett (1995) Dana Scott (1997) John Rawls (1999) Saul Kripke (2001) Solomon Feferman (2003) Jaakko Hintikka (2005) Thomas Nagel (2008) Hilary Putnam (2011) Derek Parfit (2014) Ruth Millikan (2017) Saharon Shelah (2018) Dag Prawitz / Per Martin-Löf (2020) David Kaplan (2022)
Mathematics	Elias M. Stein (1993) Andrew Wiles (1995) Mikio Sato (1997) Yuri I. Manin (1999) Elliott H. Lieb (2001) Richard P. Stanley (2003) Luis Caffarelli (2005) Endre Szemerédi (2008) Michael Aschbacher (2011) Yitang Zhang (2014) Richard Schoen (2017) Ronald Coifman (2018) Nikolai G. Makarov (2020) Jonathan Pila (2022)
Visual arts	Rafael Moneo (1993) Claes Oldenburg (1995) Torsten Andersson (1997) Herzog & de Meuron (1999) Giuseppe Penone (2001) Susan Rothenberg (2003) SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (2005) Mona Hatoum (2008) Marlene Dumas (2011) Anne Lacaton / Jean-Philippe Vassal (2014) Doris Salcedo (2017) Andrea Branzi (2018) Francis Alÿs (2020) Rem Koolhaas (2022)
Musical arts	Ingvar Lidholm (1993) György Ligeti (1995) Jorma Panula (1997) Kronos Quartet (1999) Kaija Saariaho (2001) Anne Sofie von Otter (2003) Mauricio Kagel (2005) Gidon Kremer (2008) Andrew Manze (2011) Herbert Blomstedt (2014) Wayne Shorter (2017) Barbara Hannigan (2018) György Kurtág (2020) Víkingur Ólafsson (2022)