Format: 7" and 12" Throughout most of its existence, the band was a quintet consisting of Zawinul, Shorter, a bass guitarist, a drummer, and a percussionist. Recorded: 19711978 Quincy Jones won two Grammy Awards for the version of the piece he Errico toured with jazz-fusion group Weather Report in 1973/74, but never made a studio recording with the group. Josef Erich Zawinul (/ z v n l / ZOV-in-l; 7 July 1932 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. Label: Castle CCS CD 244, Format: CD Weather Report then recorded Domino Theory and Live in Japan in 1984, Sportin' Life in 1985, and the finale album This Is This! Released: 19 September 2006 Released: 19 November 1993 "[4], Weather Report Annotated Discography: Procession, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Procession_(album)&oldid=1115481566, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "Where the Moon Goes" (Zawinul, lyrics by Nan O'Byrne and Zawinul) 7:50, This page was last edited on 11 October 2022, at 17:56. Writer(s): Joe Zawinul "Joe Zawinul: Wayfaring Genius Part II". "Dara Factor Two" (Zawinul, Shorter, Pastorius, "Face on the Barroom Floor" (Shorter) 3:58, "125th Street Congress (DJ Logic Remix)" (Zawinul) 5:04, "The Pursuit of the Woman With the Feathered Hat" (Zawinul), "Delores" (Shorter) / "Portrait of Tracy" (Pastorius) / ", "Man in the Green Shirt" (Zawinul) 6:29, 1977 CBS CBS 5588 (7", Promo; Netherlands), 1978 "River People" (Jaco Pastorius) / "The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat" (Zawinul) ARC ASD 515 (12" 33 rpm, Promo; U.S.), "Where the Moon Goes" (Zawinul, Lyrics by Nan O'Byrne and Zawinul) 7:46, Keyboard and Saxophone Duet (Zawinul, Shorter) 5:12, "Dr. Honoris Causa" / "Directions" (Zawinul) [DVD only] 7:25, 2007 Eagle Vision 39146/EREDV629, Rajon Vision RV0756 (DVD), "The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat" (Zawinul) 6:48, "Dolores" (Pastorius) / "A Portrait of Tracy" (Pastorius) / Slang (Pastorius) / ", "Fred and Jack" (Johnson, Shorter, Zawinul) 6:17, "Badia" / "Boogie Woogie Waltz" (Zawinul) 13:14, "Where the Moon Goes" (Zawinul, Lyrics by Nan O'Byrne and Zawinul), Improvised Medley including "Dr. Honoris Causa" (Zawinul), "The Pursuit of the Woman With the Feathered Hat" (Zawinul) 5:10, "The Man in the Green Shirt" (Zawinul) 6:03, Richard S. & The Vibe Tribe "Travels" 8:29, This page was last edited on 23 February 2022, at 05:50. Label: Sony Music Entertainment, Format: VHS CBS News App Open. Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. In 2000, it was voted #822 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Significantly less Milesian than their debut, which is impressive but not necessarily goodthe difference is that this is neater, more antiseptic, its bottom less dirty and its top less sexy. The discography of Weather Report, an influential American jazz band with a career lasting sixteen years between 1970 and 1986, consists of fourteen studio albums, three live albums, eleven compilation albums, five singles, one B-side, and six video albums.. Released: 1983 For the next set of studio sessions, Weather Report added a new Brazilian percussionist (Alyrio Lima) and a new drummer Chuck Bazemore of The Delfonics.[7]. Label: Columbia 4-45883 DJ Having failed to secure Marcus Miller as bass guitarist,[19] he selected Victor Bailey (a recent graduate from the Berklee College of Music, with whom Hakim had played while backing Miriam Makeba). Nach einer spontanen Abwehrreaktion bat Zawinul ihn um ein Demoband. Recorded: 19711986 As a composer, he chose a more abstract, sometimes atonal and "free jazz" style of music, opposed to the sometimes flamboyant melodicism of the tunes written by Zawinul or Pastorius. Having originally made his name as a pioneering electric piano player, he went on to consistently develop the role of the synthesizer in jazz during his time with Weather Report. 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. Jitterbug Boy 5:51 Track 05. The album rose to No. Tribute album to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Weather Report's formation. "[5] The song was also named in honor of Charlie Parker. I Cant Wait to Get Off Work 3:23 Track 06. She moved to Seattle in the mid 1970s and sang with John Holte's New Deal Rhythm Band. Playing both tenor and soprano saxophones, Shorter continued to develop the role of the latter instrument in jazz, taking his cue from previous work by Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson, and Steve Lacy. "Fusion Giants Weather Report". Virginia Avenue 3:22 Track 04. Nel 1976, in concomitanza con l'album Black Market, l'avvicendamento di musicisti port all'ingresso nel gruppo del bassista Jaco Pastorius. Both Zawinul and Shorter were beginning to realise that the refreshing nature of other projects was more satisfying than Weather Report work, and both generally felt that the band had run its course.[1]. In February 1986, the San Diego Union-Tribune announced that Shorter had left the band to concentrate on solo work. It was produced and orchestrated by Zawinul, with additional production by Shorter and Pastorius, and engineered by Ron Malo. Alphonso Johnson (1974-75) By February 1986, Shorter left the band,[10] and Zawinul dissolved the band in 1987. Columbia/Legacy have also re-released the 1984 Live in Japan concert on DVD. Released: 30 April 1996 Label: Columbia 4-45964 The release originally sold about 500,000 copies; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. Thompson returned for the final Black Market sessions, but left again after failing to gel as a rhythm section with Pastorius (whose style was much busier than that of Johnson). Released: 1990 I Weather Report sono stati uno dei gruppi fusion pi significativi degli anni settanta e ottanta.. La band nacque agli inizi degli anni settanta da uno spin-off di un gruppo di musicisti che ruotavano intorno a Miles Davis.Il nucleo stabile del gruppo stato costituito dal pianista Joe Zawinul e dal sassofonista Wayne Shorter, mentre gli altri musicisti variavano quasi ad ogni album. Recorded: July 1971 in Bremen, Germany Mino Cinelu (1984-86), Joe Zawinul - Il viaggio misterioso dei Weather Report (saggio sul periodo Weather Report su Musicaround.net), https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weather_Report&oldid=127454263, Senza fonti - gruppi musicali statunitensi, Voci con template Collegamenti esterni e qualificatori sconosciuti, Voci non biografiche con codici di controllo di autorit, licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian virtuoso keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitou, American drummer and vocalist Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. Zawinul commented that this sleeker, less crowded sound provided more listening range and made the music less chaotic now that the band were focusing more on melody and harmony. It contained the band's biggest hit, the propulsive and danceable "Birdland" (highlighting Pastorius' singing bass lines and Zawinul's synthesized ensemble brass), which became a pop hit and later became a jazz standard. The band was initially co-led by co-frontmen Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter but, subsequently as the 1970s progressed, Joe Zawinul largely became the sole musical leader of the group. The album takes its name from an 1855 poem by Walt Whitman and a 1969 short story by Ray Bradbury. For other uses, see. The album also featured Zawinul's first use of a synthesizer (an instrument with which he would become synonymous within jazz) and of sound effects. Zawinul went on to play with Cannonball Adderley's group in the 1960s, while Shorter joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and then, in 1964, Miles Davis' second great quintet. Miles, Jason; Various Artists. Ted Gioia is author of 11 books, including The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. From the point where Alphonso Johnson joined the band, individual solos became more prominent in concert, but were never allowed to overwhelm the collective approach. For its first eight years of existence, the group had difficulty finding a permanent drummer, moving through about one drummer per year until Jaco Pastorius helped to recruit Peter Erskine in 1978. Heavy Weather received a 5-star review from DownBeat magazine and went on to be voted jazz album of the year by the readers of that publication. He also collaborated with other artists, most notably Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell. Biografia Gli "Zawinul Syndicate" nel 2007. Alyrio Lima (1975) Fu con Jaco che il gruppo raggiunse la maggiore notoriet, grazie al classico standard fusion Birdland, dall'album Heavy Weather nel 1977. Another featured performance was by the Trio of Doom (a short-lived teaming of Pastorius with John McLaughlin and Tony Williams). During the first half of their career, Weather Report were seen as one of the defining acts in modern jazz, winning the DownBeat "best album award" five times in a row. This opening track was a significant commercial success, something not typical of instrumental music. Nach einer spontanen Abwehrreaktion bat Zawinul ihn um ein Demoband. Genre: Jazz fusion 22 mins Recorded: 19??-19?? By now, Pastorius was displaying signs of the mental instability and substance abuse problems that ultimately wrecked his career; and the close relationship he'd previously shared with Zawinul was becoming strained as Zawinul grew tired of Pastorius' showmanship onstage (beginning to feel that it detracted from the music). Invitation to the Blues 6:17 Track 03. According to Zawinul, it began when he and Shorter recruited another Miles Davis associate, the classically trained Czech-born bass player Miroslav Vitou, who had previously played with each of them separately (as well as with Herbie Mann, Bob Brookmeyer, Stan Getz, and Chick Corea). 3 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. It won the Down Beat best album award for 1975. [8] 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. Los Angeles Times. The band was initially co-led by co Format: CD The melody had been performed live by the band as part of "Dr Honoris Causa", which was from Joe Zawinul's eponymous solo album. Following graduation from Mount Vernon High School, she enrolled at Skagit Valley College and studied music and theater. [26][27] Alphonse Mouzon, the first drummer, died on December 25, 2016 from cardiac arrest after neuroendocrine cancer. Already a rising star in his own right, Pastorius brought a very musical, melodic quality to the bass. Many years later, Zawinul paid tribute to Gravatt's skills and stated that he had been the finest of the band's "pure jazz" drummers[8] as well as being "from the jazz side my favorite of them all". He also collaborated with other artists, most notably Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell. The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy Award with their 1979 version of the song, which had lyrics by Jon Hendricks. Length:?:?? Shorter had been focusing most of his attention and compositional ideas into his solo work, while Zawinul was sketching out ideas for a solo album of his own, which involved moving away from a raw group sound in favor of constructing a far more orchestrated and experimental studio-based recording with multiple overdubs. The band was initially co-led by co Genre: Jazz fusion [4] Looking back, Zawinul claimed, "The old Birdland was the most important place in my life. Primarily at Zawinul's instigation, Weather Report became more jazz funk- and groove-oriented, drawing more heavily on R&B influences and dense electric keyboard work while adding more structure to both the prewritten and the improvisational sections. Format: 7", Promo Alongside bands such as Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters (all with members inspired by and partially responsible for the fusion-era work of Miles Davis), Weather Report is widely considered one of the defining bands of the jazz fusion genre. During a break in activity halfway through the recording of Black Market, Johnson opted to leave Weather Report to play with the Billy Cobham/George Duke Band (which featured a young John Scofield on guitar). Producer: Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Format: VHS Zawinul and Shorter had assumed that Chester Thompson would be departing alongside his friend Johnson and, for the second set of sessions, they replaced him (on Pastorius' recommendation) with the former Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Narada Michael Walden. For the TV series, see, "Live at Montreux 1976: Weather Report: Review: All About Jazz", "Heavy Weather: Weather Report: Review: Rolling Stone", "Swedishcharts.com Weather Report Heavy Weather", "Top Billboard 200 Albums Year-End 1977", Weather Report Annotated Discography: Heavy Weather, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heavy_Weather_(album)&oldid=1109777187, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Brian Risner Assistant engineer and chief, This page was last edited on 11 September 2022, at 20:27. 10 mins, Format: VHS Released: 1978 Le successive registrazioni furono pi melodiche e meno sperimentali ed ebbero una migliore accoglienza da parte del mercato. Genre: Jazz fusion Nel 1944, per sfuggire ai bombardamenti, con la sua famiglia si [1] The first side featured new studio recordings, while the second side was taken from live recordings of a concert in Tokyo, featuring the full-band lineup of Zawinul, Shorter, Vitou, Gravatt, and Um Romo (and later available in full as the 1972 Japan-only double album Live in Tokyo). Featuring the jazz standard "Birdland", the album is one of the best sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog. Bentyne started singing at age 13 with her father's Dixieland and swing band. In seguito la pubblicazione del doppio album live 8:30 del 1979 rese omaggio al periodo d'oro dei Weather. Genre: Jazz fusion Woodard, Josef. Rather than form another collective band, Wayne Shorter concentrated on his solo career and on work as a bandleader, which continues to the present day. "Joe Zawinul: Wayfaring GeniusPart II". There's some dispute over how Weather Report initially formed. From the start, Weather Report took the unusual approach of abandoning the traditional "soloist/accompaniment" demarcation of straight-ahead jazz and featured opportunities for continuous improvisation by every member of the band. Title. Title. Label: Columbia Legacy 88697145472. Reviewing the album in Record, Steve Futterman dismissed Procession as being competently crafted but too similar to Weather Report's previous albums to be of any interest. CBS News App Open. Continuing with the same lineup, Weather Report recorded the Domino Theory album in 1984, with Hakim stepping into Jaco Pastorius' old role as Zawinul's co-producer. Label: Telarc 83473 Glasser, Brian. It was awarded Album of the Year by Down Beat magazine's polls that year. Although Alyrio Lima played percussion on one track, he was replaced during the sessions by Don Alias (his first appearance with the group since the debut album debacle) and by Alex Acua (a Peruvian drummer and conga player based in Las Vegas, who had played with Elvis Presley and Ike Turner, among others). It would dominate Weather Report's disc awards, including their last Down Beat "Album of the Year" award. Greg Errico (1973) Genre: Jazz fusion Weather Report's debut album Weather Report featured a softer sound than would be the case in later years, predominantly using acoustic bass, with Shorter exclusively playing soprano saxophone. [1], Dan Oppenheimer said in a June 1977 review for Rolling Stone that he felt the band had moved away from their earlier music, losing a lot of the space, melodies and airy feel that set them apart from other jazz-rock bands, but gaining a new bassist who "has been instrumental in developing their busier, talkative style", and that while their music previously "went up and up only, becoming more ethereal as it went, the new bottom makes all the difference in the world". Die Jaco-Jahre (unter dem Titel The Jaco Years erschien 1998 auch Airto Moreira (1970-71) Sanctuary Publishing Limited. Domino Theory is the twelfth studio album by jazz fusion band Weather Report, released in February 1984.It is the second studio album to feature the Hakim-Bailey-Rossy rhythm section. These tracks have been edited for this album and can be heard in their entirety on Weather Report's 1972 import album Live in Tokyo. [6] On 1973's Sweetnighter, Weather Report began to take a new more funk and groove-oriented direction. Varga, George (28 February 1986). 24 different groups of fusion musicians paying tribute to Weather Report. Jaco Pastorius (1976-82) Thompson subsequently joined Genesis as their touring drummer. I Weather Report sono stati uno dei gruppi fusion pi significativi degli anni settanta e ottanta.. La band nacque agli inizi degli anni settanta da uno spin-off di un gruppo di musicisti che ruotavano intorno a Miles Davis.Il nucleo stabile del gruppo stato costituito dal pianista Joe Zawinul e dal sassofonista Wayne Shorter, mentre gli altri musicisti variavano quasi ad ogni album. Genre: Jazz fusion Joe Zawinul nasce da famiglia operaia con origini ungheresi, ceche e rom a Erdberg, quartiere di Vienna.Inizia a suonare il clarinetto, poi all'et di 6 anni riceve in regalo una fisarmonica, che impara a suonare da autodidatta.Studia violoncello al conservatorio di Vienna. Recorded: 8 July 1976 at the Montreux Jazz Fest in Montreux, Switzerland Si tratta di un album sperimentale che sebbene registrato senza alcun uso di strumenti elettronici viene annoverato fra i classici della fusion. Quincy Jones won two Grammy Awards for the version of the piece he Jose Rossy (1983-84) Recorded: 19731980 Questa pagina stata modificata per l'ultima volta il21 mag 2022 alle 08:12. 84 mins (DVD), Format: VHS Genre: Jazz fusion But in Weather Report's case, the overwhelming control of co-leaders Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter has reined in the skills of bassist Victor Bailey, drummer Omar Hakim and percussionist Jos Rossy in service of highly crafted but essentially petrified music. On this album the lineup consisted of Weather Report founders Joe Zawinul (keyboards, synthesizers) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), alongside Jaco Pastorius (bass), Alex Acua (drums), and Manolo Badrena (percussion). A DVD video of the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival performance has become available as well. Domino Theory is the twelfth studio album by jazz fusion band Weather Report, released in February 1984.It is the second studio album to feature the Hakim-Bailey-Rossy rhythm section. / Dr. Honoris Causa", Wayne Tarnowski, Susumu Satoh - engineers, Fred Swanson, Jack Trompetter - cover artwork, This page was last edited on 12 September 2022, at 19:10. Silvert, Conrad. Zawinul and Pastorius were defiant in their responses to the interviewer, Shorter more philosophical, and Erskine the most reticent of the four. It wasn't where he came from. Recorded: 19831984 For the subsequent tour, Alex Acua moved from percussion to the drum kit, and Don Alias was replaced by the young Puerto Rican percussionist Manolo Badrena, who had previously played with various Latin rock bands and with Art Blakey. During his time with Weather Report, Shorter was noted for generally playing saxophone with an economical, "listening" style. His performances can be heard on live recordings hosted at the website Wolfgang's Vault. [10][11] When Shorter sided with Zawinul, the original three-man partnership broke down acrimoniously and Vitou left Weather Report, moving on to an illustrious career leading his own band and winning respect as a composer. Format: 7", Promo Early years. [Miroslav] loved funk, and he tried to play it, but he wasn't a funk player. 1976's Black Market album was perhaps the most rock-oriented work which the group had produced to date. The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy Award with their 1979 version of the song, which had lyrics by Jon Hendricks. Finally, Pastorius' stagecraft and aggressive showmanship helped the band to bring in a new audience. Charles "Don" Alias (December 25, 1939 in New York City March 28, 2006 in New York City) was an American jazz percussionist.. Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums.He was, however, a capable drum kit performer: for example, Alias played drums on the song "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" from trumpeter Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew (1969) Length: 78:11 Armbruster, Greg. The album takes its name from an 1855 poem by Walt Whitman and a 1969 short story by Ray Bradbury. "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. List of awards and nominations received by Weather Report, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental, "The Story Behind the: Where the Moon Goes, by Weather Report", "Joe Zawinul, 75; Keyboardist Was a Pioneer of Jazz Fusion", "Alphonse Mouzon, Jazz and Fusion Drummer, Dies at 68", "Brazilian Percussionist Dom um Romo Dies at 79 | World Music Central", Weather Report biography by Richard S. Ginell, discography and album reviews, credits & releases, Weather Report discography, album releases & credits, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weather_Report&oldid=1119361553, 1986 disestablishments in New York (state), American jazz ensembles from New York City, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox musical artist with associated acts, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 1 November 2022, at 04:58. Nach einer spontanen Abwehrreaktion bat Zawinul ihn um ein Demoband. His Substack newsletter is The Honest Broker. It was also where he met his wife, Maxine. Zawinul later described this lineup as "one of the greatest bands of all time! "Birdland" served as a tribute to the famous New York City jazz club that hosted many famous jazz musicians, which operated on Broadway from 1949 through 1965. The recruitment of Jaco Pastorius helped to push Weather Report to the height of its popularity. I elected not to do things.". Zawinul used the latest developments in synthesizer technology, and he took advantage of a large variety of sounds and tone colors to make the band stand out. [12] Alphonso Johnson was also worn out from the strain put on the rhythm by the band's frequent changes of drummer. During this decade, both men made names for themselves as being among the best composers in jazz. Zawinul's dominance as instrumentalist and composer (as well as group director) was even more pronounced on this album. Recorded: 1984 in Japan Genre: Jazz fusion Robert Thomas Junior (1980-82) This was the club, which he frequented almost daily, where Zawinul heard Count Basie,[3] Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis. Format: CD Procession is the eleventh studio album by the jazz fusion band Weather Report.It was released in 1983 through Columbia Records.Although several previous Weather Report tracks included wordless singing, and "And Then" from Mr. Gone included brief lyrics, "Where the Moon Goes" was the band's first track including lyrics throughout, sung by members of The Manhattan Transfer. Il supporto di Jaco sarebbe durato ancora per poco, lasciando il gruppo di Zawinul alle sperimentazioni del leader e di Shorter con una interminabile serie di collaborazioni prestigiose (da Carlos Santana a Carl Anderson) fino a giungere all'epitaffio This Is This del 1986 (in realt "costruito a tavolino" con pezzi precedentemente registrati e non inclusi negli album antecedenti), col quale la band si congedava dando il via a vari progetti solistici, il tutto parallelamente alla triste parabola di Pastorius, scomparso prematuramente nel 1987. To complete the band, Zawinul, Shorter and Vitou brought in former McCoy Tyner drummer Alphonse Mouzon and began recording their debut album while looking for a full-time auxiliary percussionist. Format: VHS CBS News Live CBS News New York: Local News, Weather & More Nov 1, 2018 ; CBS News New York CBS News Live WLNY TV 10/55 EEO Report; View CBS News In. I Cant Wait to Get Off Work 3:23 Track 06. Hunt, Dennis. 3 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. [15][16], The larger scale and multimedia staging of the band's tours (complete with stagehands, laser and film projections) began to take on the kind of rock-star proportions mostly unknown in jazz circles.
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