Weather Report – Weather Report (E/VG+) – LP, US 1982

Weather Report is an LP by Weather Report from 1982 released on the Columbia label.

About this album

Weather Report’s self-titled 1982 album is a concise, sharply focused final statement from one of fusion’s defining bands. With Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul still steering the group, the record pares the music back to taut ensemble writing, electric textures and restless rhythmic detail, rather than the sprawling workouts associated with earlier Weather Report releases. Its streamlined approach reflects the changing shape of jazz in the early 1980s, when fusion was becoming leaner and more groove-led. Heard today, Weather Report stands as a late-period document of a band that helped define modern jazz-rock without losing its sense of risk or invention.

Genre: Jazz

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