Weather report was an american jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Weather report sweetnighter vinyl.
Jazz rock style.
Zawinul points his band in the right direction on sweetnighter.
However the goal was clearly set in maintaining and circling back to the rhythm unlike previous albums.
The band was initially co led by the austrian born keyboard player joe zawinul the american saxophonist wayne shorter and czech bassist miroslav vitouš other prominent members at various points in the band s lifespan included bassists alphonso johnson jaco pastorius and victor bailey.
There s still plenty of free floating jazz rock funk fusion going on like previous weather report productions.
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I donated most of the other weather report albums i owned to the less fortunate.
Weather report s official second lp 1972 s i sing the body electric juxtaposed highly edited versions of three tokyo tracks with four new studio pieces.
Sweetnighter from 1973 marked a new more groove driven approach to the music and marks the end of the first phase of weather report being the last album miroslav vitous played bass on.
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Zawinul points his band in the right direction on sweetnighter.
When mwandishi folded in 1973 weather report took up this baton abandoning the free forms of their first two albums for great extended compositions with that groove inbuilt for this their third album sweetnighter.
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It was followed in 1973 by sweetnighter highlighted by double drummers and percussionists which found weather report moving towards a more structured approach to offset its nightly collective improvisations.