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Appreciation: Jazz great and innovator Wayne Shorter dead at 89
Wayne Shorter performs at the Park West in Chicago on Nov. 15, 1978. Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images. Famed saxophonist Wayne Shorter died Thursday at the age of 89. Shorter was a jazz giant who not only witnessed jazz history but had a huge role in shaping it. From…