Weather Report

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Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s, one of the bands that helped define the genre.

The band was founded by a number of musicians who had worked with Miles Davis in his pioneering electric band of the late 60s: Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Wayne Shorter (saxophones). They had an ever changing line-up, with only Zawinul and Shorter staying from 1970-1986. Bass players included Miroslav Vitous, Alphonso Johnson, Jaco Pastorius and Victor Bailey. Drummers Peter Erskine, Alphonse Mouzon, Chester Thompson, Leon Ndugu Chancler, and Alex Acuña were augmented by percussionists Airto Moreira, Dom Um Romao or Manolo Badrem.

The band was known, especially in their early years, for a kind of collective improvisation that remained more rhythmically cohesive than the free jazz of the 60s.

Zawinul and Shorter had both played with Miles Davis during the latter’s late-60s excursions into acid jazz, and Weather Report’s earliest releases owe a clear debt to the Davis style. By the release of Mysterious Traveller in 1974, the group had arrived at a style of its own: several of the tracks depend upon propulsive rhythmic figures, with solos more explorative of mood than technical ‘excellence’. In this respect they were always more artistically ambitious than the majority of other jazz/fusion artists.

Heavy Weather
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Black Market
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Mysterious Traveller
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Forecast: Tomorrow
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Top Tracks

1	Birdland full track	1,003
2	Teen Town	551
3	A Remark You Made full track	442
4	Black Market full track	355
5	Palladium full track	321
6	harlequin full track	300
7	Havona	288
8	Rumba Mama	276
9	The Juggler full track	264
10	Elegant People full track	218
11	Cannon Ball	185
12	Barbary Coast	175
13	Gibraltar full track	145
14	Herandnu	122
15	Three Clowns full track	120

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jplovecraft wrote:
last month

http://www.lastfm.es/group/Jazz+en+Espa%C3%B1ol

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Kretenos wrote:
last month

Heard Teen Town yesterday on youtube. Man, I was thrilled. Never heard any of Pastorius' work except Birdland, and this was magnificent! Gotta get Heavy Weather!

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Skonrokk wrote:
last month

21 year since the death of Jaco Pastorius. Let's remember him today. I'm gonna listen to his music all day long! Yeah!

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VoidMemory wrote:
last month

Greetings fellow Weather Report fans!! I recently did a cover of 'A Remark You Made' on guitar, where I play Wayne Shorter's sax parts, and Joe Zawinul's synth parts. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqtrRBjb9A Shameless self promotion I know, but Weather Report is probably my favourite band of all time.

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Debtfromabove wrote:
last month

Loving this. Young and Fine off Mr. Gone is glorious.

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[deleted-user] wrote:
last month

amazing band, amazing music, amazing mr. pastorius. i love fusion
akouomusic wrote:
August 2008

Amazing is an understatement.

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Freedomdiver wrote:
August 2008

Birdland is still amazing

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GabeTheZombie wrote:
August 2008

teen town is fucking amazing!

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blade1620 wrote:
July 2008

sweet

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wahit wrote:
July 2008

Fusion

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-Zelgadis- wrote:
July 2008

magic

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cfeaugas wrote:
July 2008

Divine.

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SonicExplosion wrote:
July 2008

If you appreciate music as a beautiful art form, which I'm sure you do, you should check out Appreciators of Imitative Art. We need you!

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Justin1983 wrote:
July 2008

@IAJP: I would recommend you check out the double-disc "Live in Tokyo" from 1972. It is Weather Report at their most avant-garde and abrasive. Very noisy, turbulent, and mercurial. It's probably the least-heard of all of Weather Report's stuff, and has always been my favorite. But yeah, if you think Weather Report sounds "too slick", check out that record ("Live in Tokyo" from 1972).

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unico2469 wrote:
June 2008

@captainbounce: Listen to "Sweetnighter", then you'd probably agree with the tag.. ~ by/e (//)/(()

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SonicExplosion wrote:
June 2008

black market...is delicious.

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Earlmo wrote:
June 2008

I agree with mangas.

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GilmoursAngst wrote:
May 2008

Mysterious Traveler is beautiful, it really is. And hnd, there's lot of jazz fusion out there, just gotta find the right artists.

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chillionaire wrote:
May 2008

i love em.. my favorite albums is "I Sing the Body Electric" and "Heavy Weather"

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