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Wayne Shorter: Visionary, Innovator, Icon and Human Being
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity is an intimate portrait and cinematic ode to jazz giant Wayne Shorter’s life and music. Shorter has long been considered one of the greatest modern composers and musicians of American music, but it is his life that has inspired all who have known him. That includes Dorsay Alavi, who produced and directed Zero Gravity. Dorsay joins Matthew Sherwood to discuss how she turned her life-long friendship with Shorter into a docu-series that moves beyond typical music doc territory to capture the man who has touched so many lives with his humanity as well as his music.
Miles Davis: The Coolest Music Innovator of the 20th Century
Stanley Nelson's documentary 'Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool' (2020) brings to the big screen the life of the 20th century's greatest music innovator.