The jazz saxophonist, who died in 2023 at the age of 89, had a career that spanned seven decades. Throughout his life, Shorter played with the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan and Carlos Santana— and the list goes on and on.
Despite keeping his personal artifacts close to his chest throughout entire life, Shorter wanted the exact opposite in death. And now, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has finally acquired the collection of jazz history that the late icon had amassed. For the first time, Shorter's archive will be available for the world to witness as part of the library's Music and Recorded Sound Division.
"Miles just asked if I had any music and I said, 'Yeah,' and he said, 'Bring it.' We never had any rehearsals really," Shorter told Jazz Weekly in a rare interview. "We would just go to the studio and I had this book with music in it that I had been writing, some of this music before I went in the Army around 1956, when I was in my last year of college, I was writing some of this music and he used to say, 'You got the book?'"
"It’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts from every single phase of his career," Kevin Parks, curator of the Music and Recorded Sound Division at the New York Public Library, told The New York Times. "So that’s the thing that sort of stands out to me, is that it’s scores that he wrote going all the way back to the [Art] Blakey days, and even before, to there’s a score somewhere in the collection dated a month before he died."
During his lifetime, Shorter no doubt saw the way his contributions to music impacted every genre and reverberated through generations. Through his archive, his reach is only broadened, his influence made even greater. It's rare for the world to encounter a musical genius, but rarer still to encounter such insight into his imagination.
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