Fumblin With the Blues 3:05 Track 07. Zawinul commented that this sleeker, less crowded sound provided more listening range and made the music less chaotic now that the band were focusing more on melody and harmony. Length: ca. Heavy Weather received a 5-star review from DownBeat magazine and went on to be voted jazz album of the year by the readers of that publication. Wayne wanted it like that, but we were always 'partners in crime'. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian virtuoso keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitou, American drummer and vocalist Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. [9] With Gravatt gone and Dwellingham unavailable for touring, former Sly & the Family Stone drummer Greg Errico played on the Sweetnighter tour, but did not stay with the band afterwards. The Cure - Lullaby (Bestival Live 2011) (Lead) The Cure - Lullaby (Bestival Live 2011) (Bass) The Cure - The Hungry Ghost (Bestival Live 2011) (Rhythm) Thompson Twins - You Killed the Clown (Lead) Thompson Twins - You Killed the Clown (Bass) Tower Of Power - Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (Bass) Weather Report - Birdland (Bass) In 2000, it was voted #822 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. His replacement was Jaco Pastorius, a virtuoso fretless bass guitarist from Florida, who had been in touch with Zawinul for several years and who came in to play on "Cannon Ball" and his own composition "Barbary Coast". Nel 1944, per sfuggire ai bombardamenti, con la sua famiglia si I Sing the Body Electric is the second studio album released by the American jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1972. During a break in activity halfway through the recording of Black Market, Johnson opted to leave Weather Report to play with the Billy Cobham/George Duke Band (which featured a young John Scofield on guitar). The band was initially co-led by co Tale Spinnin' won the DownBeat best album award for 1975 (the third Weather Report album to do so) and Native Dancer was the runner-up. He didn't connect up with how to go there. "In a Silent Way". I Weather Report sono stati uno dei gruppi fusion pi significativi degli anni settanta e ottanta.. La band nacque agli inizi degli anni settanta da uno spin-off di un gruppo di musicisti che ruotavano intorno a Miles Davis.Il nucleo stabile del gruppo stato costituito dal pianista Joe Zawinul e dal sassofonista Wayne Shorter, mentre gli altri musicisti variavano quasi ad ogni album. Zawinul used the latest developments in synthesizer technology, and he took advantage of a large variety of sounds and tone colors to make the band stand out. Glasser, Brian. This is from the Stadthalle Offenbach Concert that took place 1978. Invitation to the Blues 6:17 Track 03. Jazz Funk Rare Groove Reggae LP His performances can be heard on live recordings hosted at the website Wolfgang's Vault. The album rose to No. Heavy Weather received a 5-star review from DownBeat magazine and went on to be voted jazz album of the year by the readers of that publication. Peter Erskine (1978-86) Released: 30 April 1996 The final album under the Weather Report name, This is This!, was released in June 1986 and fulfilled the band's contract with Columbia Records. The last three tracks were recorded live in concert in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, 1972. Errico toured with jazz-fusion group Weather Report in 1973/74, but never made a studio recording with the group. Fumblin With the Blues 3:05 Track 07. The discography of Weather Report, an influential American jazz band with a career lasting sixteen years between 1970 and 1986, consists of fourteen studio albums, three live albums, eleven compilation albums, five singles, one B-side, and six video albums.. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock.He co-founded the groups Length:??:?? 8:30 is the second live album of the jazz fusion group Weather Report, issued in 1979 by ARC/Columbia Records. Label: CBS March 1984. Joe Zawinul nasce da famiglia operaia con origini ungheresi, ceche e rom a Erdberg, quartiere di Vienna.Inizia a suonare il clarinetto, poi all'et di 6 anni riceve in regalo una fisarmonica, che impara a suonare da autodidatta.Studia violoncello al conservatorio di Vienna. Tribute album to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Weather Report's formation. Ted Gioia is author of 11 books, including The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Erich Zawinul (1979) According to an online post from Lages wife, he was riding his bike home after bartending on Friday morning when he crashed on gravel near Birdland Marina. Don Alias (1976) Il nucleo stabile del gruppo stato costituito dal pianista Joe Zawinul e dal sassofonista Wayne Shorter, mentre gli altri musicisti variavano quasi ad ogni album. His Substack newsletter is The Honest Broker. Released: 4 June 2002 Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. Omar Hakim (1983-85) Prior to his departure, Johnson played on all but two of the new album's tracks. By 1976's Black Market album, Weather Report's music had evolved further from open-ended funk jams into more melody and rock-oriented and concise forms. A passing police officer and a trainee spotted Lage lying on a trail and called 911. On the recommendation of Micha Urbaniak,[18] Zawinul and Shorter recruited 23-year-old drummer Omar Hakim, a talented session player and multi-instrumentalist, who had played with a variety of musicians including Mike Mainieri, David Bowie, and Carly Simon. Although several previous Weather Report tracks included wordless singing, and "And Then" from Mr. Gone included brief lyrics, "Where the Moon Goes" was the band's first track including lyrics throughout, sung by members of The Manhattan Transfer. Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records.The release originally sold about 500,000 copies; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. These tracks have been edited for this album and can be heard in their entirety on Weather Report's 1972 import album Live in Tokyo. Ted Gioia is author of 11 books, including The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Genre: Jazz fusion Zawinul himself died on September 11, 2007, in Vienna from skin cancer (Merkel cell carcinoma). The discography of Weather Report, an influential American jazz band with a career lasting sixteen years between 1970 and 1986, consists of fourteen studio albums, three live albums, eleven compilation albums, five singles, one B-side, and six video albums.. Dom Um Romo (1971-74) Format: VHS Nachdem Alphonso Johnson im Januar 1976 Weather Report verlassen hatte, wurde Pastorius im April 1976 whrend der Aufnahmen zum Album Black Market Mitglied der Gruppe. Label: Columbia, CBS, ARC Released: 19 September 2006 Recorded: July 1971 in Bremen, Germany "Birdland" is a jazz/pop song written by Joe Zawinul of the band Weather Report as a tribute to the Birdland nightclub in New York City, which appeared on the band's 1977 album Heavy Weather. Errico toured with jazz-fusion group Weather Report in 1973/74, but never made a studio recording with the group. Pasties & a G-String 5:45 Track 08. Sempre nel 1971 venne pubblicato il secondo album del gruppo, I Sing the Body Electric, in cui il sintetizzatore fece la sua prima comparsa (l'ARP 2600). This lineup was short-lived, with Los Angeles session guitarist Steve Khan and former Weather Report percussionist Robert Thomas Jr. replacing Scofield and Cinlu prior to live appearances. and a DVD of the entire September 28, 1978, performance (with Erskine and Pastorius) in Offenbach, Germany, not previously available. Noting the band's change in lineup, he stated, "Integrating new members, finding what they can offer and letting them stir things up can give an established band a welcome jolt of creativity, of fresh ideas. Er gehrte ihr bis 1981 an und war mit ihr sehr erfolgreich. "[4], Weather Report Annotated Discography: Procession, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Procession_(album)&oldid=1115481566, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "Where the Moon Goes" (Zawinul, lyrics by Nan O'Byrne and Zawinul) 7:50, This page was last edited on 11 October 2022, at 17:56. "Fusion Giants Weather Report," BAM #157. June 3, 1983. Miroslav Vitou (1970-74) Label: Columbia/Legacy, Sony, 85400, 5076592, SICP-238, Format: 3-CD + 1-DVD Box set Over their 16-year career, Weather Report explored various types of music, predominantly centered on jazz (initially the "free" variety), but also incorporating elements of art music, ethnic music, R&B, funk, and rock. In 1984, it was first released in CD format in the U.S. on Columbia Records. For the Patti Smith song, see, "Best Jazz Fusion Performance" and "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental", "Keyboardist Joe Zawinul: From Weather Report to Rap", "2010 Grammy Hall Of Fame Selections Announced", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Birdland_(song)&oldid=1106378613, Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 August 2022, at 08:58. Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. Label: Columbia/Legacy 85570, Sony 82876855752 Label: Columbia 4-45964 The album rose to No. Format: 7", Promo Genre: Jazz fusion In the beginning let's say Weather Report was a joint thing. Format: CD Breakout album Mysterious Traveller, released in 1974, was the second of Weather Report's albums to win Down Beat's "Album of the Year" award. 84 mins (DVD), Format: VHS The discography of Weather Report, an influential American jazz band with a career lasting sixteen years between 1970 and 1986, consists of fourteen studio albums, three live albums, eleven compilation albums, five singles, one B-side, and six video albums.[1][2][3][4]. Jitterbug Boy 5:51 Track 05. Writer(s): Joe Zawinul [24][25] He was predeceased by mid-period bass player Jaco Pastorius, who died on September 21, 1987, following a fatal beating in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Producer: Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Format: VHS Genre: Jazz fusion Alex Acua (1976-77) Following graduation from Mount Vernon High School, she enrolled at Skagit Valley College and studied music and theater. Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter had first met and become friends in 1959 while they were playing in Maynard Ferguson's Big Band. The Cure - Lullaby (Bestival Live 2011) (Lead) The Cure - Lullaby (Bestival Live 2011) (Bass) The Cure - The Hungry Ghost (Bestival Live 2011) (Rhythm) Thompson Twins - You Killed the Clown (Lead) Thompson Twins - You Killed the Clown (Bass) Tower Of Power - Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (Bass) Weather Report - Birdland (Bass) Zawinul and Pastorius were defiant in their responses to the interviewer, Shorter more philosophical, and Erskine the most reticent of the four. A passing police officer and a trainee spotted Lage lying on a trail and called 911. Early years. He could play muscular, lightning-fast groove lines influenced by R&B or funk, as well as demonstrating an extraordinary solo control of tone and string harmonics, often sounding more like a horn player. "Birdland" marked the peak of Weather Report's commercial career with the release of Heavy Weather. She moved to Seattle in the mid 1970s and sang with John Holte's New Deal Rhythm Band. [2] The leading Cuban band Los Van Van included an extended interpolation of the piece in their song Tim Pop/Birdland. [9], The singer Bilal names it among his 25 favorite albums, citing the interplay between Jaco Pastorius and Joe Zawinul. Although Walden played on several album tracks, he ultimately proved unsuitable. In September 2006, Columbia/Legacy released a Weather Report boxed set, Forecast: Tomorrow. List of awards and nominations received by Weather Report, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental, "The Story Behind the: Where the Moon Goes, by Weather Report", "Joe Zawinul, 75; Keyboardist Was a Pioneer of Jazz Fusion", "Alphonse Mouzon, Jazz and Fusion Drummer, Dies at 68", "Brazilian Percussionist Dom um Romo Dies at 79 | World Music Central", Weather Report biography by Richard S. Ginell, discography and album reviews, credits & releases, Weather Report discography, album releases & credits, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weather_Report&oldid=1119361553, 1986 disestablishments in New York (state), American jazz ensembles from New York City, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox musical artist with associated acts, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 1 November 2022, at 04:58. It was the first Weather Report album to feature a consistent rhythm section (rather than a varied set of drummers, percussionists, and bass players) since their debut. Weather Report appeared on the Burt Sugarman-produced series The Midnight Special, performing both "Birdland" and "Teen Town". His Substack newsletter is The Honest Broker. It was praised by Down Beat for its "unity and joy"[9] and it has come to be seen as one of the best Weather Report albums. According to an online post from Lages wife, he was riding his bike home after bartending on Friday morning when he crashed on gravel near Birdland Marina. [4] Looking back, Zawinul claimed, "The old Birdland was the most important place in my life. B-side: "Boogie Woogie Waltz" (Mono) (Joe Zawinul) ?:?? Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records.The release originally sold about 500,000 copies; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. Format: 7" and 12" This is from the Stadthalle Offenbach Concert that took place 1978. When Lage stopped breathing, one officer performed CPR until EMTs arrived. I Weather Report sono stati uno dei gruppi fusion pi significativi degli anni settanta e ottanta. Jaco Pastorius (1976-82) [4] Whichever story is true, it was those three musicians all composers who formed the initial core of the project. Over the next few years, Mitchell hired the Weather Report line-up en masse (although without Zawinul in each case) to play on her studio albums Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977) and Mingus (1979). The melody had been performed live by the band as part of "Dr Honoris Causa", which was from Joe Zawinul's eponymous solo album. November 19, 1978. Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records.The release originally sold about 500,000 copies; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. By now, Pastorius was displaying signs of the mental instability and substance abuse problems that ultimately wrecked his career; and the close relationship he'd previously shared with Zawinul was becoming strained as Zawinul grew tired of Pastorius' showmanship onstage (beginning to feel that it detracted from the music). Domino Theory is the twelfth studio album by jazz fusion band Weather Report, released in February 1984.It is the second studio album to feature the Hakim-Bailey-Rossy rhythm section. Dai concerti di quel periodo traspare la formidabile perizia tecnico-artistica del gruppo; una sezione ritmica portentosa faceva da fondamenta per le escursioni del sax di Shorter e per il caratteristico stile di Zawinul. Thompson subsequently joined Genesis as their touring drummer. Length: 2:58 Quincy Jones won two Grammy Awards for the version of the piece he Recorded: May 1978 Jitterbug Boy 5:51 Track 05. These tracks have been edited for this album and can be heard in their entirety on Weather Report's 1972 import album Live in Tokyo. "Joe Zawinul Interview". Il supporto di Jaco sarebbe durato ancora per poco, lasciando il gruppo di Zawinul alle sperimentazioni del leader e di Shorter con una interminabile serie di collaborazioni prestigiose (da Carlos Santana a Carl Anderson) fino a giungere all'epitaffio This Is This del 1986 (in realt "costruito a tavolino" con pezzi precedentemente registrati e non inclusi negli album antecedenti), col quale la band si congedava dando il via a vari progetti solistici, il tutto parallelamente alla triste parabola di Pastorius, scomparso prematuramente nel 1987. The title of the album is a reference towards the American geopolitical theory of the same name which gained popularity between the 1950s and 1980s. Zawinul further consolidated his use of keyboard synthesizers, while Shorter experimented with an early form of wind synthesizer, the Lyricon. Genre: Jazz fusion The last three tracks were recorded live in concert in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, 1972. Having originally made his name as a pioneering electric piano player, he went on to consistently develop the role of the synthesizer in jazz during his time with Weather Report. Length: 74:36 [22] Weather Update toured in 1986 and 1987 before Zawinul dissolved the band. Armbruster, Greg. It includes three CDs of mostly previously released material (from 1970 to 1985, excluding This is This!) That band was a hummer!"[17]. [1] Weather Report was initially formed to explore a more impressionistic and individualistic music (or, as Zawinul put it, "away from all that eight bars shit and then you go to the bridge").[3]. The album also made further strides in using technological improvements in synthesizers, even making use of the gigantic studio-based TONTO array. [18], "Teen Town" redirects here. Label: Sony, Format: CD I Cant Wait to Get Off Work 3:23 Track 06. CBS News Live CBS News New York: Local News, Weather & More Nov 1, 2018 ; CBS News New York CBS News Live WLNY TV 10/55 EEO Report; View CBS News In. Recorded: 1971 Format: 7" It was awarded Album of the Year by Down Beat magazine's polls that year. Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. He also collaborated with other artists, most notably Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell. From the point where Alphonso Johnson joined the band, individual solos became more prominent in concert, but were never allowed to overwhelm the collective approach. Hakim was immediately entrusted with recruiting the rest of the new lineup. 8:30 is the second live album of the jazz fusion group Weather Report, issued in 1979 by ARC/Columbia Records. B-side: "Will" (Miroslav Vitous) 2:37 Already a rising star in his own right, Pastorius brought a very musical, melodic quality to the bass. [1], Dan Oppenheimer said in a June 1977 review for Rolling Stone that he felt the band had moved away from their earlier music, losing a lot of the space, melodies and airy feel that set them apart from other jazz-rock bands, but gaining a new bassist who "has been instrumental in developing their busier, talkative style", and that while their music previously "went up and up only, becoming more ethereal as it went, the new bottom makes all the difference in the world". Woodard, Josef. Artist: Various Artists Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Significantly less Milesian than their debut, which is impressive but not necessarily goodthe difference is that this is neater, more antiseptic, its bottom less dirty and its top less sexy. Genre: Jazz fusion He was also an early advocate of the Chapman Stick, which he can be heard playing on some of the live Weather Report recordings of the period. Towards the end of the year, Pastorius began working on his long-delayed second solo album (Word of Mouth) (1981) in New York, while Zawinul worked on new Weather Report material in California. She moved to Seattle in the mid 1970s and sang with John Holte's New Deal Rhythm Band. Length: 69:36 Released: 22 February 2000 A passing police officer and a trainee spotted Lage lying on a trail and called 911. Recorded: 19711980 The album also featured Zawinul's first use of a synthesizer (an instrument with which he would become synonymous within jazz) and of sound effects. Released: 24 May 2005 Playing both tenor and soprano saxophones, Shorter continued to develop the role of the latter instrument in jazz, taking his cue from previous work by Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson, and Steve Lacy. [26][27] Alphonse Mouzon, the first drummer, died on December 25, 2016 from cardiac arrest after neuroendocrine cancer. Writer(s): Jaco Pastorius It built on the avant-garde experiments which Zawinul and Shorter had pioneered with Miles Davis on Bitches Brew, including an avoidance of head-and-chorus composition in favor of continuous rhythm and movement. However, Weather Report's contract and work schedule required another album, so Zawinul's solo work was absorbed into what became Weather Report's eighth album, Mr. Gone (1978). "" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. Length: 4:47 Genre: Jazz fusion Zawinul later described this lineup as "one of the greatest bands of all time! Length: ca. Die Jaco-Jahre (unter dem Titel The Jaco Years erschien 1998 auch Length: 76:15 February 28, 1986. Continuing with the same lineup, Weather Report recorded the Domino Theory album in 1984, with Hakim stepping into Jaco Pastorius' old role as Zawinul's co-producer. Virginia Avenue 3:22 Track 04. For the next set of studio sessions, Weather Report added a new Brazilian percussionist (Alyrio Lima) and a new drummer Chuck Bazemore of The Delfonics.[7]. [1] Weather Report's music had evolved further from open-ended funk jams into more melody-oriented, concise forms, which also offered a greater mass-market appeal. For the TV series, see, "Live at Montreux 1976: Weather Report: Review: All About Jazz", "Heavy Weather: Weather Report: Review: Rolling Stone", "Swedishcharts.com Weather Report Heavy Weather", "Top Billboard 200 Albums Year-End 1977", Weather Report Annotated Discography: Heavy Weather, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heavy_Weather_(album)&oldid=1109777187, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Brian Risner Assistant engineer and chief, This page was last edited on 11 September 2022, at 20:27. CBS News App Open. [23], Five of the band's members have since died. In seguito la pubblicazione del doppio album live 8:30 del 1979 rese omaggio al periodo d'oro dei Weather. The album takes its name from an 1855 poem by Walt Whitman and a 1969 short story by Ray Bradbury. Nachdem Alphonso Johnson im Januar 1976 Weather Report verlassen hatte, wurde Pastorius im April 1976 whrend der Aufnahmen zum Album Black Market Mitglied der Gruppe. Keyboard Magazine. The band was initially co-led by co-frontmen Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter but, subsequently as the 1970s progressed, Joe Zawinul largely became the sole musical leader of the group. It was also where he met his wife, Maxine. Zawinul and Shorter had assumed that Chester Thompson would be departing alongside his friend Johnson and, for the second set of sessions, they replaced him (on Pastorius' recommendation) with the former Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Narada Michael Walden. Length:??:?? The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian virtuoso keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitou, American drummer and vocalist Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock.He co-founded the groups I Weather Report sono stati uno dei gruppi fusion pi significativi degli anni settanta e ottanta.. La band nacque agli inizi degli anni settanta da uno spin-off di un gruppo di musicisti che ruotavano intorno a Miles Davis.Il nucleo stabile del gruppo stato costituito dal pianista Joe Zawinul e dal sassofonista Wayne Shorter, mentre gli altri musicisti variavano quasi ad ogni album. Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. A DVD video of the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival performance has become available as well. Having failed to secure Marcus Miller as bass guitarist,[19] he selected Victor Bailey (a recent graduate from the Berklee College of Music, with whom Hakim had played while backing Miriam Makeba). John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (/ d k o p s t r i s /; December 1, 1951 September 21, 1987) was an American jazz bassist, composer and producer.He recorded albums as a solo artist and band leader and was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981. Procession is the eleventh studio album by the jazz fusion band Weather Report.It was released in 1983 through Columbia Records.Although several previous Weather Report tracks included wordless singing, and "And Then" from Mr. Gone included brief lyrics, "Where the Moon Goes" was the band's first track including lyrics throughout, sung by members of The Manhattan Transfer. 8:30 also won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. Genre: Jazz fusion Aired: 9 August 1971 by Radio Bremen Genre: Jazz fusion B-side: "Birdland" (Joe Zawinul) 5:59 Sanctuary Publishing Limited. Finally, Pastorius' stagecraft and aggressive showmanship helped the band to bring in a new audience. 10 by Weather Report", "This Is Jazz, Vol. Label: Telarc 83473 [6] On 1973's Sweetnighter, Weather Report began to take a new more funk and groove-oriented direction. Recruited by Shorter, Johnson was a supple player more than capable of providing the funk element which Zawinul desired. Wayne Shorter came to the group with a reputation as a dominant role as an instrumentalist,[1] drawn from both his solo work and his contributions to Miles Davis' "second great quintet" during the 1960s.
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