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Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. ... Jaco Pastorius – electric bass, drums, percussion; Alex Acuña – drums, ...
Jaco Pastorius. John Francis Anthony Pastorius III, also known as Jaco Pastorius (/ ˈdʒɑːkoʊ pæˈstɔːriəs /; December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) [1] was an American jazz bassist, composer, and producer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bassists of all time, [2] Pastorius recorded albums as a solo artist ...
The lineup for the album consisted of Weather Report founders Joe Zawinul (keyboards, synthesizers) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), alongside Jaco Pastorius (bass), Alex Acuña (drums), and Manolo Badrena (percussion). It was produced and orchestrated by Zawinul, with additional production by Shorter and Pastorius, and engineered by Ron Malo.
Weather Report is the tenth studio album by the American jazz fusion band Weather Report, released in January 1982; there was some confusion among consumers and retailers upon its release as the band's first album (1971) was also self-titled. It is the final album featuring bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius and drummer Peter Erskine in the rhythm ...
Jaco Pastorius Bass Workshop: Jazz Concert In Martinique (Altus Jazz, 2017) – live recorded in 1984; ... Weather Report. 1975–76: Black Market (Columbia, 1976)
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 ...
Frederick I Douglass of The Baltimore Sun proclaimed he tuned in and became "immersed in the electronic space sounds of Weather Report". [11]Don Heckman of High Fidelity wrote "Still, despite Zawinul's electro-musical genius, despite the astonishing bass playing of Pastorius, despite the consistently rewarding improvisations of Shorter, and despite Pastorius' and Manolo Badrena's attempts to ...
8:30. (1979) Night Passage. (1980) 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.