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The tracks are taken from live performances that took place from November 27, 1975 to June 3, 1983. It is their third official live recording after the Japan-only Live in Tokyo from 1972 and 8:30 from 1979, although previous albums such as Heavy Weather (1977) and Night Passage (1980) also included occasional live tracks.
The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978–1981 is a four-CD live recording of Weather Report on Columbia, Sony, released on November 20, 2015.Discs one and three are quintet recordings from 1980 to 1981, while discs two and four are quartet recordings from 1978.
"Birdland" is a jazz/pop song written by Joe Zawinul of the band Weather Report as a tribute to the Birdland nightclub in New York City, which appeared on the band's 1977 album Heavy Weather. The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy Award with their 1979 version of the song, which had lyrics by Jon Hendricks . [ 1 ]
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]
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".
Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš, American drummer Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton.
"Birdland" (Weather Report song), composed by Joe Zawinul, originally recorded by his band Weather Report, covered as a single by the Manhattan Transfer in 1980 "Birdland", a song by Patti Smith from Horses "Lullaby of Birdland", a 1952 popular song written by George Shearing and George David Weiss; The Birdland Big Band, 16-piece jazz ...
Forecast: Tomorrow is a 3-CD/1-DVD career-spanning compilation of recordings of Weather Report. The 37 tracks are presented chronologically, beginning with three tracks pre–Weather Report, from ensemble duties with Miles Davis (both Zawinul and Shorter), Cannonball Adderley (Zawinul), and from a Shorter solo album.