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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 G...
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