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 a 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 V.S.O.P. Quintet
 * 1977: The Quintet (Columbia, 1977)
 * 1977: Tempest in the Colosseum (CBS/Sony, 1977)
 * 1979: Live Under the Sky (CBS/Sony, 1979)[2CD]
 * 1979: Five Stars (CBS/Sony, 1979)

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: Nefertiti (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 Milton Nascimento
 * Milton (A&M, 1976)
 * A Barca Dos Amantes (Barclay, 1986)
 * Yauaretê (Columbia, 1987) – 1 track

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 With Joe Zawinul
 * 1968: Expansions (Blue Note, 1970)
 * 1970: Extensions (Blue Note, 1973)
 * Zawinul (Atlantic, 1971) – rec. 1970
 * Mauthausen - Vom großen Sterben hören (ESC, 2000) – 1 track

With others
 * Donald Byrd, Free Form (Blue Note, 1966) – rec. 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) – rec. 1963-64
 * Don Henley, The End of the Innocence (Geffen, 1989) – rec. 1987-89
 * Toninho Horta, Diamond Land (Verve Forecast, 1988)
 * Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note, 2016) – rec. 2015
 * J.J. Johnson, Heroes (Verve, 1998) – rec. 1996
 * Wynton Kelly, Kelly Great (Vee Jay, 1959)
 * Michael Landau, Tales From The Bulge (Shobi Corporation, 1990)
 * Bill Laswell, Bahia Black Ritual Beating System (Axiom, 1992)
 * Lionel Loueke, Karibu (Blue Note, 2008) – rec. 2007
 * Grachan Moncur III, Some Other Stuff (Blue Note, 1965) – rec. 1964
 * Michel Petrucciani, The Power of Three (Blue Note, 1987) – rec. 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) – rec. 1965