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Weather Report's ninth studio album, Night Passage, was released in 1980, and its second eponymous release following the 1970 debut album was recorded in 1981 and released in 1982. In 1983, the band released its eleventh studio album Procession , which showed the band returning to the "world music".
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. Two of its tracks featured guitar work from Carlos Santana , and it also marked the return of Peter Erskine on drums, with Hakim only appearing on one track.
Alphonso Johnson (born February 2, 1951) [1] is an American jazz bassist active since the early 1970s. Johnson was a member of the jazz fusion group Weather Report from 1973 to 1975, and has performed and recorded with numerous high-profile rock and jazz acts including Santana, Phil Collins, members of the Grateful Dead, Steve Kimock, and Chet Baker.
Weather Report is the debut studio album by American jazz fusion band Weather Report, released on May 12, 1971, by Columbia Records. The album was reissued by Sony and digitally remastered by Vic Anesini in November 1991 at Sony Music Studios in New York City.
8:30 is the second live album from the jazz fusion group Weather Report, issued in 1979 by ARC/Columbia Records. [2] The album rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. 47 on the Billboard 200 chart. [3] [4] 8:30 also won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. [5]
Members of the jazz fusion band Weather Report, including members of the subsequent band Weather Update. Pages in category "Weather Report members" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
In 1978, he joined Weather Report, [3] [4] joining Jaco Pastorius in the rhythm section. After four years and five albums with Weather Report and the Jaco Pastorius big band's Word of Mouth, he joined Steps Ahead. [1] In 1983, he performed on the Antilles Records release Swingrass '83. [5] He toured the US in 1992 with Chick Corea. [4]
In reviews of Weather Report's first three albums republished in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, rock critic Robert Christgau situated the band as a keyboards-and-sax-centered development from the sound of Miles Davis' 1969 album In a Silent Way, on which Zawinul and Shorter had played, but Vitouš had not.