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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.
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 ...
It should only contain pages that are Weather Report albums or lists of Weather Report albums, ... Mr. Gone (album) Mysterious Traveller; N. Night Passage (album) P.
Weather Report won one Grammy from six nominations. [1] Year Nominee / work Award Result ... Mysterious Traveller: Jazz Album of the Year Won 1974 Weather Report
Johnson debuted with Weather Report on the album Mysterious Traveller. He appeared on two more Weather Report albums: Tale Spinnin' (1975) and Black Market (1976) before he left the band to work with drummer Billy Cobham. [2] During 1976-77 he recorded three solo albums as a band leader, for the Epic label, in a fusion-funk vein.
Mysterious Traveller (1974) ... Sweetnighter is the third studio album by American jazz fusion band Weather Report, ... Weather Report. Joe Zawinul – piano ...
Tale Spinnin' is the fifth studio album by Weather Report, recorded and released in 1975, featuring the addition of drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, who was recruited after Joe Zawinul heard him play with Carlos Santana. Weather Report was recording in the studio next door to Ndugu, and asked him to join them for “one session”.