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Mysterious Traveller is the fourth studio album by the jazz and jazz fusion ensemble Weather Report, 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.
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
His final contribution to Weather Report was to play bass on a single track, which appeared on the band's 1974 album Mysterious Traveller ("American Tango", which he had co-written with Zawinul). Vitouš' departure marked the end of the first phase of Weather Report and the shift of overall creative dominance of the band to Josef Zawinul ...
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 ...
Compositions appeared on the following Weather Report albums: "Waterfall" on the band's debut; "Dr. Honoris Causa" on I Sing the Body Electric; "Cucumber Slumber" on Mysterious Traveller; "Freezing Fire" and "Man in the Green Shirt" on Tale Spinnin'; "Elegant People" and "Black Market" on Black Market; "Teen Town" and "Rumba Mamá" on Heavy ...
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.
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.
Vitouš co-wrote with Zawinul and recorded his final contribution to Weather Report in 1973. This was "American Tango," which appeared on the band's fourth album Mysterious Traveller the following year. Vitouš was replaced in the subsequent sessions for Mysterious Traveller by electric bassist Alphonso Johnson. The record is the band's first ...