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Learn about Weather Report, a influential jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986, co-led by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. Explore their musical style, history, members, albums, and legacy.
Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul. Official photos taken of the Weather Report Band and its members.
Weather Report Discography. Released in May 1971, Weather Report’s self-titled debut album earned critical and commercial acclaim. The music defies easy description, a bold, innovative embrace of the stylistic changes taking place in jazz at that time, acoustic and electric instruments stretching the conventions of rhythm and harmony.
Learn about the formation, development and changes of Weather Report, one of the most influential jazz fusion bands of all time. Explore their albums, compositions, collaborations and legacy with Zawinul, Shorter and other musicians.
- Weather Report
- I Sing The Body Electric
- Live in Tokyo
- Sweetnighter
- Mysterious Traveller
- Tale Spinnin’
- Black Market
- Heavy Weather
- Mr Gone
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(Columbia)rel. 12 May 1971 The eponymously titled debut includes the Vitous compositions ‘Seventh Arrow’ and 'Morning Lake’ along with Shorter's 'Tears' and ‘Eurydice’ and Zawinul's 'Waterfall' and ‘Orange Lady'. All three collaborate on ‘Umbrellas’ while Shorter and Zawinul get co-writing credit on ‘Milky Way'. Managed by Robert Devere, the superb...
(Columbia) rel. 24 May 1972 Recorded between October and late December of 1971, Weather Report's anxiously-awaited follow up features a new drummer (Eric Gravatt replacing Alphonse Mouzon), a new percussionist (Dorn Urn Romao replacing Airto) and a host of special guests including Hubert Laws on flute, Ralph Towner on acoustic 12-string guitar, And...
(Sony Japan) 1972 Released in Japan only, this is the complete document of the 13 January concert at Shibuya Kokaido Hall in Tokyo. Along with the opening medley and the other live material that appeared on I Sing The Body Electric, it also includes freewheeling, edgy renditions of Shorter's ‘Eurydice', 'Tears', ‘Lost’ and 'The Moors’ along with Za...
(Columbia) rel. 27 April 1973 Recorded in early February at the CBS Studios in Manhattan and Connecticut, Weather Report’s third album features the drumming tandem of Eric Gravatt and Herschel Dwellingham creating intricate polyrhythmic textures alongside percussionists Dorn Urn Romao and Muruga on Zawinul's funky ‘125th Street Congress' (which may...
(Columbia) rel. 24 May 1974 With Weather Report heading down a more groove-oriented path, Zawinul became more interested in acquiring a funky bass player to hold down the bottom. Miroslav Vitous' inability to capture this kind of earthy, pared-down approach is what inevitably set the stage for Philly bassist Alphonso Johnson coming into the band in...
(Columbia) rel. May 1975 The second studio album that Weather Report recorded at Devonshire Sound Studios in North Hollywood and the fifth overall is propelled by the crisp, power precision drumming of Ndugu Chancier and underscored by the bubbling, Mu-Tron-inflected basslines of Alphonso Johnson. In a departure from the much looser approach of Swe...
(Columbia) rel. March 1976 A transitional album, it marks the changing of the bass guard from Alphonso Johnson to Jaco Pastorius. While Johnson had announced his intention to leave Weather Report by December 75 in order to join the Billy Cobham-George Duke band, he nevertheless recorded five tracks for this album. He cut Zawinul’s 'Gibraltar', Shor...
(Columbia) rel. March 1977 A breakthrough record for Weather Report, the group's seventh studio album launched them to a new level of record sales and visibility in the marketplace. The final piece of the puzzle was the addition of bassist Jaco Pastorius, who brought an unprecedented facility on his instrument along with a kind of showtime appeal, ...
(Columbia) rel. early September 1978 The commercial success of the gold-selling Heavy Weather set the tone for an even more electrified phase of Weather Report, which was played out to its crossover conclusion on Mr Gone. Acerbic critics and other wags opined that the album title was a reference to Wayne Shorter, who seemed to have faded into the b...
(Columbia) rel. September 1979 From the outset, Weather Report had always been a phenomenal band in concert, which can be readily heard on the live sections from I Sing The Body Electric. This live recording captures some exhilarating moments on the road with the fearsome and flexible foursome of Zawinul, Shorter, Pastorius and new drummer Peter Er...
A comprehensive overview of the influential fusion band co-founded by Wayne Shorter and Josef Zawinul, from their 1970 debut to their 1986 swan song. Explore their musical evolution, key collaborations, stylistic innovations and legacy through their discography and live performances.
Feb 15, 2021 · Enjoy the remastered version of Weather Report's live performance at Montreux in 1976, a masterpiece of jazz fusion. Watch the video now.
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A comprehensive list of albums by Weather Report, an American jazz band active from 1970 to 1986. Includes studio, live, compilation, video, and tribute albums, as well as chart positions, certifications, and labels.
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