Latest Release
- NOV 29, 2022
- 11 Songs
- Heavy Weather (Bonus Track Version) · 1938
- Heavy Weather · 1974
- Heavy Weather (Bonus Track Version) · 1938
- Heavy Weather (Bonus Track Version) · 1967
- Heavy Weather (Bonus Track Version) · 1977
- Black Market · 1976
- Black Market (Bonus Track Version) · 1976
- Heavy Weather · 1977
- Black Market · 1976
- Heavy Weather · 1977
Essential Albums
- 1977
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982
- 1980
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Trailblazers in jazz's fusion with rock, funk, and world music.
- Early experimental energy and ambient late-period compositions.
Live Albums
- 2022
- 2020
- 2011
- 2011
Compilations
- 2006
- 1998
More To Hear
- Little Dragon picks the 5 Best Songs on Apple Music.
About Weather Report
Conceived by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Miroslav Vitouš, and keyboardist Joe Zawinul in 1970, the immensely popular, critically acclaimed, and fluidly staffed Weather Report emerged from the electric jazz-fusion space opened up by Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way (on which Shorter and Zawinul both performed) and Bitches Brew. After exploring languid improvisational zones on their relatively subdued eponymous 1971 debut, the combo grew increasingly heavier, funkier, and more melodic, beginning with 1973’s Sweetnighter. The arrival of charismatic bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius for Heavy Weather (1977) and its hit single, “Birdland,” launched Weather Report into superstardom. Joni Mitchell used them, minus Zawinul, as her backing band on 1977’s ambitiously jazz-centric Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter and 1979’s Mingus. Weather Report continually reinvented themselves over 14 albums and countless live adventures, sounding tighter—even somewhat trad—on 1979’s Night Passage, before winding down in a soulful way on 1985’s Sportin’ Life.
- ORIGIN
- New York, NY, United States
- FORMED
- 1971
- GENRE
- Jazz