Live Report - Eurovision 1989
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Live Report
Nationality:
United States
Founded:
1971
Founded Place:
New York
Members:
Wayne Shorter ; Joe Zawinul ; Eric Kamau Grávátt ; Jaco Pastorius ; Victor Bailey ; Leon Ndugu Chancler ; Mino Cinelu ; Peter Erskine ; Omar Hakim ; Alphonso Johnson ; Airto Moreira ; Alphonse Mouzon ; Dom Um Romão ; José Rossy ; Miroslav Vitouš ; Narada Michael Walden ; Andrew White ; Alyrio Lima
Music Genre:
bebop, contemporary post-bop, electric bass, jazz, jazz funk, jazz fusion
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 Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. The band was initially co-led by co-frontmen Zawinul and Shorter but, subsequently as the 1970s progressed, 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. The band started as a free improvising jazz group with avant-garde and experimental electronic leanings (pioneered by Zawinul); when Vitouš left Weather Report (due mostly to creative disagreements), Zawinul increasingly...