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Jazz Great Wayne Shorter Gets His Due in ‘Zero Gravity’ Doc


Jazz musicians pay tribute to the great Wayne Shorter in new music documentary.

Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, Don Was, Sonny Rollins, Terence Blanchard and Joe Zawinul are among the other artists interviewed in the film. “Wayne’s explorative nature, his love for science-fiction and the cosmos and his philosophical approach to life, all led to the choices that I made,” Alavi explains. “They were almost like a comedy team,” Alavi says, “especially downstairs in Wayne’s fun room with all those figurines.” Shorter was a collector of miniature sculptures of fairies and various comic-book superheroes.

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