Weather Report News and Photos

Wayne Shorter – Without a Net (2013)

Sun, February 03 2013 2:35pm - Source: Something Else!

Growing up in the age of Weather Report, I'll admit that it was difficult to gauge the breadth of Wayne Shorter's importance as a composer in the modern jazz tradition.

Album: Wayne Shorter, Without a Net (Blue Note)

Sun, February 03 2013 12:36am - Source: The Independent - Music

There have been some wilderness years since Weather Report (for jazz as well as Wayne Shorter), but this live recording from a recent world tour confirms the veteran sax man (who's 80 in August) as the most startling improviser on the planet.

HBC – Scott Henderson, Jeff Berlin, Dennis Chambers (2012)

Sun, December 02 2012 1:11pm - Source: Something Else!

An all-star trio of jazz-rock veterans, HBC offers resourceful, focused, and — turn it up! — often ferocious take on the old-school fusion of Weather Report, Billy Cobham and Herbie Hancock.

Desert Island Discs: 1970s Fusion Edition

Tue, September 25 2012 2:07pm - Source: Something Else!

Turns out, this was one funky ship that ran ashore.

Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Legends Live: Stuttgart, 1969 (2012)

Tue, March 27 2012 11:40am - Source: Something Else!

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley is the undisputed leader on this date — the big-hearted, soul-lifting center of every song.

Weather Report: Live in Cologne 1983

Sun, December 18 2011 9:21am - Source: Times Online - Music

This latest archive release documents the pioneers of world jazz after the spotlight of stardom dimmed.

SONY MUSIC’S POPMARKET.COM PRESENTS COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTIONS BY THE GREATEST NAMES IN JAZZ

Sun, November 27 2011 4:03am - Source: MOG

Call it the Ultimate Jazz Festival, as Sony Music's PopMarket.com website presents Complete Album Collections on Columbia Records and RCA Records (spanning the 1950s to the '00s) by the greatest names in modern jazz - the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Return To Forever, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington Jr., and Weather Report (all on Columbia); and Paul Desmond and Nina Simone (on RCA).

Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa, CD review

Thu, October 06 2011 2:41pm - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Former singer with riotous Paris-Algerian fusionists Orchestre National de Barbès and Weather Report's Joe Zawinul, Sahmaoui presents a contemporary take on his ancestral Gnawa trance music.

Human Element – The Human Element (2011)

Wed, August 03 2011 12:38pm - Source: Something Else!

Easy comparisons arrive quickly as the new self-titled Abstract Logix debut release by Human Element spins, since the group has connections to the original pioneers who fused jazz and world music.

Album: Weather Report, Live in Offenbach 1978 (Art of Groove)

Sat, July 09 2011 11:26pm - Source: The Independent - Music

This version of Joe Zawinul's ship of state featured Peter Erskine and Jaco Pastorius as the Rhythm Section Which Gives You More, but no ancilliary percussionist.

Summer reruns: Miroslav Vitous – Remembering Weather Report (2009)

Sat, July 02 2011 12:56pm - Source: Something Else!

As one of the seminal jazz-rock bands of the seventies, Weather Report has been plenty celebrated and covered.

Something Else! Interview: Lenny White, of Return to Forever

Wed, June 22 2011 1:47pm - Source: Something Else!

Fusion jazz drummer Lenny White is prepping for a reunion with the newly expanded Return to Forever, which will make 32 stops in the U.S. beginning in Pittsburgh on August 7.

Weather Report - Live In Berlin 1975

Tue, May 17 2011 12:51pm - Source: BBC Music

Members of the 'not more old jazz' lobby might find it hard to raise a smile let alone lend an ear to something like this, but that would be their loss.

Album: Weather Report, Live in Berlin 1975 (Birdjam)

Sun, March 27 2011 12:35pm - Source: The Independent - Music

Originally recorded for German TV, this CD & DVD package catches the group in their funky-prog phase, with Alphonso Johnson on bass, Chester Thompson on drums and Alex Acuna on percussion added to co-leaders Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter.

Great moments in jazz: Weather Report and the orchestration of fusion

Fri, February 25 2011 7:40pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

Catching the editor of this newspaper discussing the changing nature of journalism on the BBC's Newsnight this week set me reflecting on this jazz series and how invaluable the stimulation from readers has been.

My Fantasy Band: Ali Love

Fri, December 10 2010 3:17pm - Source: The Independent - Music

It's going to have to be Marvin Gaye. One of my all-time favourite records is one of the last ones he recorded, 'Midnight Love', from 1983.

Other People's Songs: Mercy Mercy Mercy

Fri, November 19 2010 7:49am - Source: Star Maker Machine

Joe Zawinul started his recording career as a bandleader in 1959, but he was soon working as a sideman.

Playlist: The Very Best of Weather Report 2010

Fri, October 08 2010 7:54am - Source: Squeeze My Lemon

Weather Report was an influential American jazz band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew' Turns 40 and Gets the Box Set Treatment

Thu, September 16 2010 9:32pm - Source: Spinner

I've gone on record more than once saying I lean more toward John Coltrane than Miles Davis .

Miles Davis - Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time

Thu, June 03 2010 7:39am - Source: The Ripple Effect

Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop are usually credited for helping to kill off the peace and love Woodstock hippy rainbow vibe in 1970.

The Nels Cline Singers - Initiate (2010)

Wed, June 02 2010 8:21am - Source: Something Else!

Multiple personality disorder is considered an affliction among the mentally disabled, but when it comes to the artistry of that unquenchable, multidimensional guitarist Nels Cline, it's the very thing that makes him such an unpredictably compelling musician.