Title
Dept/ Agency: Offices of Municipal Council/City Clerk
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Ceremonial Street Designation
Honoree: Wayne Shorter
Date(s): TBD
Official Street Name(s): Intersection of Park Place between Raymond Boulevard and Center Street
Ceremonial Intersection Name: “Wayne Shorter Way”
Sponsor: Council Vice President, LaMonica R. McIver
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WHEREAS, Ordinance 6PSF-f, adopted on May 20, 2015, authorizes the designation of an intersection, etc., for honorary and ceremonial purposes; and
WHEREAS, Wayne Shorter, a renowned jazz saxophonist and composer, was aptly described in 2008 by the New York Times as “probably jazz’s greatest living small-group composer and a contender for the greatest living improviser; and
WHEREAS, Wayne Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 25, 1933 and was a distinguished graduate of Newark and New Jersey’s pre-eminent performing arts school, Arts High School, in 1952 and continued his musical training at New York University, graduating with a degree in Music Education in 1956; and
WHEREAS, shortly after completing a two (2) year stint in the United States Army, he came into world-wide prominence in the late 50’s and 60’s as a performer and the primary composer for the iconic Art Blakely Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet and co-founding the breakthrough jazz fusion band Weather Report; and
WHEREAS, over the span of his prodigious seventy (70) year musical career, he received numerous prestigious awards, recognitions and honors including 11-Grammy awards, the Polar Music Prize, a Kennedy Center Honoree, the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award, the Recording Academy Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an NEA Jazz Master designation and a Guggenheim Fellowship Lifetime Achievement Award, to name a few.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. The Municipal Council does hereby authorize the honorary and ceremonial renaming of Park Place, between Raymond Boulevard and Center Street, as “Wayne Shorter Way”.
2. The official name of said streets shall remain as Park Place, between Raymond Boulevard and Center Street, in its entirety.
STATEMENT
This Resolution authorizes the naming of Park Place, between Raymond Boulevard and Center Street, “Wayne Shorter Way”, for honorary and ceremonial purposes.