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Mysterious Traveller is the fourth studio album by the jazz and jazz fusion ensemble Weather Report and was released in 1974. This was their final recording with founding bassist Miroslav Vitouš, who left due to creative differences. Vitouš was replaced by Alphonso Johnson. Another addition to the line-up is drummer Ishmael Wilburn.
A painting depicting the close passage of a comet by Wimmer was used as the cover art for the album Mysterious Traveller, by the jazz fusion band Weather Report, released in 1974. He also designed an educational children's board game entitled "Space Hop", which was published by Teaching Concepts in 1973.
On 1973's Sweetnighter, Weather Report began to take a new more funk and groove-oriented direction. 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. Released in 1975, Tale Spinnin' was Weather Report's most solid
Weather Report's debut album Weather Report featured a softer sound than would be the case in later years, predominantly using acoustic bass, with Shorter exclusively playing soprano saxophone. 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 ...
Other tracks were reminiscent of Weather Report's previous albums. Sweetnighter is considered to be the most stylistically transitional release by the band as it bridged the gap between the more open, improvisational earlier style to a more compositionally structured format.
2 Album releases. 3 Deaths. 4 Births. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller; Randy Weston: ...
This is Weather Report's first studio album to feature bass player Jaco Pastorius; he appears on two tracks, one of which was his own composition "Barbary Coast". The back cover photo shows Pastorius, Chester Thompson, and Alex Acuña with the band, although bass player Alphonso Johnson played on the majority of the record's tracks. The album ...
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