Weather Report - Birdland

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RIP Joe Zawinul - founder, band leader, composer, keyboardist

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's a solo voice rendtion of this one by the Manhattan Transfer

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Report

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Peter Erskine - drums ( one out of the many the band did have throughout the years)

 

 

 

 

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This one is a WR classic

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Nubian  Sundance" track lineup:

 

Josef Zawinul (RIP): Vocal, pianos, synthesizer, percussion

Ishmael Wilburn & Skip Hadden: Drums

Dom Um Romão & Muruga: Percussion

Wayne Shorter: Tenor and soprano saxophone

Alphonso Johnson: Bass

Edna Write, Marti McCall, Jessica Smith, James Gilstrap, Billie Barnum: Vocalists

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Great track and awesome bass (by Alphonso Johnson)

 

 

 

 

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I love this one....

 

 

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_vNpVXubA

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Market_(Weather_Report_album)

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Bass player in this track is Jaco Pastorius-RIP...He was deemed for some time as the best electric bass player in the world...

 

Had the honor of seeing him in concert  (not with WR) in 1986....Extraordinary....He got killed in a confrontation not long after that

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius

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Bassist here and on most tracks (except  "Cannon Ball" &  "Barbary Coast"...Pastorius) is Alphonso Johnson

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From " Tale Spinnin' " 1975

 

 

 

 

 

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Ancient inhabitants of Portugal (once called Lusitania)

 

 

 

 

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Awesome ..A mixture of modern  & ethnic and more......JMHO