Weather Report

About

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš, American drummer Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. The band was initially co-led by Zawinul and Shorter but as the 1970s progressed, Zawinul became the primary composer and creative director of the group. Other prominent members throughout the band’s history included bassists Jaco Pastorius, Alphonso Johnson and Victor Bailey, drummers Chester Thompson and Peter Erskine, and percussionists Airto Moreira and Alex Acuña. A quintet of Zawinul & Shorter with a bassist, a drummer and a percussionist was the standard formation for Weather Report.

Albums/Songs:

• Weather Report
• Tale Spinnin’
• Domino Theory
• Sportin’ Life
• Playlist: The Very Best Of Weather Report
• I Sing the Body Electric
• Forecast: Tomorrow
• Mysterious Traveller
• Original Album Classics
• Weather Report
• Black Market
• Best Of, Volume 1
• This Is Jazz 40: The Jaco Years
• Sweetnighter
• Mr. Gone
• The Best of Weather Report
• The Collection
• Weather Report
• This Is This
• This Is Jazz 10
• Original Album Classics [Vol. 2]
• Heavy Weather
• Night Passage
• Collections
• Procession

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