This is a comprehensive list of the discography of the jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter as a leader and sideman.
As leader/co-leader
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 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