His death was confirmed toThe New York Timesby his publicist Alisse Kingsley.
No further information has yet been released.
Among other recordings, he played on Davis landmark albumBitches Brewin 1969.
Wayne Shorter onstage in 1990Getty Images
Mitchell and Shorter would rekindle their collaboration in 2000 with the standards albumBoth Sides Nowand in 2002 onTravelogue.
Shorters survivors include his wife, Carolina Dos Santos.
Weather Report’s Wayne Shorter and Jaco Pastorius onstage in 1978WireImage
