Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš, American drummer and vocalist Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. 
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. Other prominent members at various points in the band's lifespan included Jaco Pastorius, Alphonso Johnson, Victor Bailey, Chester Thompson, Peter Erskine, Airto Moreira, and Alex Acuña. Throughout most of its existence, the band was a quintet consisting of Zawinul, Shorter, a bass guitarist, a drummer, and a percussionist.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played a few tracks from Weather Report in the 1970s, at a time when he and producer John Walters were showing an interest in new jazz-rock artists and styles and the group were being praised by critics in Melody Maker and other music magazines. The DJ didn't seem to play material by them after 1978, according to available tracklistings on this site. 
He did play a track from the 1977 album Heavy Weather, which included their best-known track, Joe Zawinul's "Birdland", which picked up radio airplay elsewhere, even if Peel ignored it. It was given a set of lyrics and successfully covered by Manhattan Transfer and Quincy Jones, but by then any jazz tracks appearing in Peel playlists were from earlier eras rather than contemporary material. Bass player Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) became a star in his own right, however, and appeared on four late 1970s albums by Joni Mitchell. 
==Shows Played==
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;1971
*06 October 1971: unknown 
;1977
*04 April 1977: Teen Town (LP - Heavy Weather) Columbia
;1978
*26 September 1978: The Pursuit Of The Woman With The Feathered Hat (LP – Mr Gone) CBS
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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