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 2014-10-18 Celebration Volume 1 Blue Note 2024 Live recordings from the Stockholm 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;"The Giants of Jazz (Musical LP, 1963)". Worldcat. Retrieved 2013-07-08 also released as single B-side of "Seven Steps to Heaven""Singles Reviews: Jazz". Billboard. September 14, 1963. Retrieved 2013-07-08. 1964: Miles in Berlin (Columbia, 1965) 1965: E.S.P. (Columbia, 1965) 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 Corazón (RCA, 2014)
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) 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
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