Weather Report: Night Passage 1980 Joe Zawinul keyboards Wayne Shorter saxophones Jaco Pastorius bass Peter Erskine drums Robert Thomas Jr. hand drums Original Release: Columbia JC 36793 Release Date: 1980, Time: 49:42 Produced by Zawinul, Co-Produced by Jaco Pastorius The 10th album of WR. Read more on Last.fm.
Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s, one of the bands that defined the genre. Their initial style was collectively improvised free jazz with a strong rhythmic pulse and Latin influences; moving into more funk-oriented rhythms. The sound also developed from an acoustic lineup to increasingly synthesised textures as keyboardist Joe Zawinul embraced successive generations of technology.
The band was founded in Read more on Last.fm
