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Weather Report
Members
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance
Grammy Hall of Fame
Grammy Hall of Fame
IMUDB Ranking
9.4/10
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🎧 545,336 listeners
▶ 7,831,735 plays
Wikipedia
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 and 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, Peter Erskine and Omar Hakim, and percussionists Airto Moreira and Alex Acuña. A quintet of Zawinul and Shorter plus a bassist, a drummer, and a percussionist was the standard formation for Weather Report.
The band started as a free improvising group with avant-garde and experimental electronic leanings (pioneered by Zawinul); when Vitouš left Weather Report (due mostly to creative disagreements), Zawinul increasingly steered the band towards a funky, edgy sound incorporating elements of R&B and native musics from around the world. 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. During the first half of their career, Weather Report were seen as one of the defining acts in modern jazz, winning the DownBeat "best album award" five times in a row.
Alongside bands such as Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters (all with members inspired by and partially responsible for the fusion-era work of Miles Davis), Weather Report is widely considered one of the defining bands of the jazz fusion genre.
🤝 Collaborations (41)
Genius ↗MusicBrainz credits combined with Genius song credits from top 15 tracks
Weather Report has 41 credited collaborators on IMUDB — 10 featured, 2 producer, 1 writer, 14 bandmates, 3 production & engineering, 4 instrumentalists, 7 other. Active 1971–1986.
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📅 Collaboration Timeline
5 dated credits, by decade
1970s
4
1980s
1
⭐ Known For
Heavy Weather
▶ 2,722,345
Black Market
▶ 1,130,533
Mysterious Traveller
▶ 374,340
Mr. Gone
▶ 340,501
Heavy Weather (Expanded Edition)
▶ 294,644
Weather Report
▶ 379,543
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Serenite (live Toulon '73)
2024
Live In Berlin 1971
2023
Inception: The Classic 1971 Austrian Broadcast
2022
Live in London
2020
Tokyo 1978
2019
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