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In an age where celebrity funerals are de rigueur, the PBS documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (which premiered last year at Sundance) fits right in and feels like a home-going service three decades in the making.

website. He was a member of Steely Dan since 2008 and had been touring recently with the band on the Eagles’ current “Long Goodbye” tour.Beard’s last performance with the band happened on Jan.

Jim Beard, a pianist, keyboardist, composer, producer and arranger known for his work with Steely Dan as well as jazz musicians Wayne Shorter and John McLaughlin, died Saturday, March 2, in a New York City hospital from complications due to a sudden illness. He was 63.

There comes a time in every great artist’s life when all the lessons they’ve learned go out the window and everything starts flowing on raw emotion. For Wayne Shorter, one such moment occurred during a set with Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet at The Plugged Nickel in Chicago in late 1965.

pic.twitter.com/MRVfXhaz8TShorter released several solo albums, efforts that allowed him to fuse jazz with other music like Latin, Rock ‘n’ Roll, funk and R&B. It was these explorations that led to the creation of perhaps his most well-known group, Weather Report.Weather Report’s album Heavy Weather went platinum in 1977, making a rare appearance (for a jazz record) on U.S.

Visionary composer, saxophonist and visual artist Wayne Shorter has passed away at the age of 89.

his 13th GRAMMY. He was 89.In a statement released by Shorter's reps, the musician died on Thursday in Los Angeles surrounded by his loving family.The last few years of Shorter's life were filled with creativity, including the realization of his opera, , written in collaboration with Esperanza Spalding, which played to widespread critical acclaim across the country in 2020, and the 2018 release of his GRAMMY-winning triple album and graphic novel, .Born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, Shorter had a career that spanned six decades.

Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist and composer who was a major figure in the development of modern jazz, died Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 89.

In an age where celebrity funerals are de rigueur, the PBS documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (which premiered last year at Sundance) fits right in and feels like a home-going service three decades in the making.