Wayne Shorter discography

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

Title	Year recorded	Label	Year released	Note
Introducing Wayne Shorter (also released as Blues a la Carte)	1959	Vee-Jay	1959
Second Genesis	1960	Vee-Jay	1974
Wayning Moments	1962	Vee-Jay	1962
Night Dreamer	1964	Blue Note	1964
JuJu	1964	Blue Note	1965
Speak No Evil	1964	Blue Note	1966
The Soothsayer	1965	Blue Note (LT series)	1979
Et Cetera	1965	Blue Note (LT series)	1980
The All Seeing Eye	1965	Blue Note	1966
Adam's Apple	1966	Blue Note	1967
Schizophrenia	1967	Blue Note	1969
Super Nova	1969	Blue Note	1969
Moto Grosso Feio	1970	Blue Note	1974
Odyssey of Iska	1970	Blue Note	1971
Native Dancer (featuring Milton Nascimento)	1974	Columbia	1975
Atlantis	1985	Columbia	1985
Phantom Navigator	1986	Columbia	1987
Joy Ryder	1988	Columbia	1988
Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 (with Carlos Santana)	1988	Image Entertainment	2005	live
A Tribute to Miles (with Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Wallace Roney)	1992-94	Qwest/Reprise/Warner Bros.	1994	partially live
High Life	1994-95	Verve	1995
1+1 (with Herbie Hancock)	1997	Verve	1997
Footprints Live!	2001	Verve	2002	live
Alegría	2003?	Verve	2003
Beyond the Sound Barrier (as Wayne Shorter Quartet)	2002–04	Verve	2005	live
Without a Net (as Wayne Shorter Quartet)	2010	Blue Note	2013	live
Emanon	2016	Blue Note	2018	disk 2 & 3: live
Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival	2017	Candid	2022	live

As 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 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; also released as single B-side of "Seven Steps to Heaven"
• 1964: Miles in Berlin (Columbia, 1965)
• 1965: E.S.P. (Columbia, 1963)
• 1965: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (Legacy, 1995)
• 1966: Miles Smiles (Columbia, 1967)
• 1967: Sorcerer (Columbia, 1967)
• 1967: Nerfertiti (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 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

With McCoy Tyner

• 1968: Expansions (Blue Note, 1970)
• 1970: Extensions (Blue Note, 1973)

With others

• Donald Byrd, Free Form (Blue Note, 1966) – recorded in 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) – recorded in 1963-64
• Don Henley, The End of the Innocence (Geffen, 1989) – recorded in 1987-89
• Toninho Horta, Diamond Land (Verve Forecast, 1988)
• Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note, 2016) – recorded in 2015
• J.J. Johnson, Heroes (Verve, 1998) – recorded in 1996
• Wynton Kelly, Kelly Great (Vee Jay, 1959)
• Michael Landau, Tales From The Bulge (Shobi Corporation, 1990)
• Lionel Loueke, Karibu (Blue Note, 2008) – recorded in 2007
• Grachan Moncur III, Some Other Stuff (Blue Note, 1965) – recorded in 1964
• Milton Nascimento, Yauaretê (Columbia, 1987) – 1 track
• Michel Petrucciani, The Power of Three (Blue Note, 1987) – recorded in 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) – recorded in 1965
• Joe Zawinul, Zawinul (Atlantic, 1971) – recorded in 1970