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Wayne Shorter

1933 - 2023

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Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became the primary composer. In 1964 he joined Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wayne Shorter has received more than 2,112,049 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Wayne Shorter is the 371st most popular musician (up from 394th in 2019), the 2,061st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,207th in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Musician.

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  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Wayne Shorter ranks 371 out of 3,175. Before him are Radu Lupu, Denny Laine, Andy Fletcher, Ry Cooder, Liberace, and Paul Wittgenstein. After him are Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Oliver Dragojević, Stig Anderson, Jermaine Jackson, Ornette Coleman, and Alexander Siloti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Wayne Shorter ranks 118. Before him are Miloš Milutinović, Philippe de Broca, Otto Barić, Maurice André, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, and Michel Hidalgo. After him are Cissy Houston, Viktor Patsayev, Marcos Alonso, Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria, Américo Lopes, and Peter Mansfield. Among people deceased in 2023, Wayne Shorter ranks 138. Before him are David Albahari, Hans Albert, Nina Matviienko, Suzanne Somers, Denny Laine, and A. S. Byatt. After him are Concha Velasco, Martin Walser, Sante Gaiardoni, Don Walsh, Marc Augé, and Lance Reddick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wayne Shorter ranks 2,061 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), James Bowie (1796), Marisa Tomei (1964), Ashley Judd (1968), and Liberace (1919). After him are Lin Shaye (1943), Robert F. Engle (1942), Ruth Gordon (1896), Linda Ronstadt (1946), Daniel Stern (1957), and Prescott Bush (1895).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Wayne Shorter ranks 108. Before him are David Crosby (1941), Alan Menken (1949), Robert Trujillo (1964), Woody Guthrie (1912), Ry Cooder (1947), and Liberace (1919). After him are Jermaine Jackson (1954), Ornette Coleman (1930), Tony Levin (1946), Buddy Rich (1917), Dexter Gordon (1923), and Billy Gibbons (1949).

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