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 ...

The discography of Weather Report, the legendary American jazz band, consists of fourteen studio albums and three live albums.

On 1973’s Sweetnighter, Weather Report began to abandon the primarily acoustic group improvisation format, and the band started to take a new direction. Primarily at Zawinul’s instigation, Weather Report became more jazz funk- and groove-oriented, drawing more heavily on R&B influences and dense electric keyboard work while adding more ...

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.

Weather Report was one of the defining bands of the genre of jazz fusion in the 1970s. This Weather Report discography also includes many of the most popular Weather Report live albums. All these hard jazz fusion Weather Report albums have been presented below in …

On July 6, 1973, former Sly and the Family Stone drummer Greg Errico made his debut with Weather Report. The band’s performance was part of the Newport Jazz Festival, which had been transplated to New York City the previous year after a near-riot forced the cancelation of the festival in 1971.

Let's set the bar high and take a closer look at the masterful "Heavy Weather" by the American band Weather Report from 1977. "Heavy Weather" is the seventh studio album of the group, and because it was released in '77, many superstitious types might attribute its commercial success to these numbers.

Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s, one of the bands that defined the genre. Their initial style was collectively improvised free jazz with a strong rhythmic pulse and Latin influences; moving into more funk-oriented rhythms.

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2023年3月13日 · Co-founded by keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist player Wayne Shorter, the Weather Report band was pioneering in its scintillating fusion of styles, that whilst leaning heavily into jazz, also incorporated elements of funk, rock and electronic music into its every evolving sound.