Weather Report

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There are two Weather Report albums under the name "Weather Report". The first was released in 1971. The second was released in 1982. Weather Report 1971 Recording Date: Feb 16, 1971 -- Mar 17, 1971 Originally Released in May 1971, Weather Report was the debut album by the group of the same name. The album was reissued by Columbia Records in 1992. The album was digitally remastered by Vic Anesini in November 1991 at Sony Music Studios in New York City, and then released again under the Sony International label. The style of music on this album can be described as avant-garde jazz with electric instruments. It continues the style of Miles Davis album Bitches Brew on which Zawinul and Shorter played but goes perhaps even further with experimentation. Weather Report's self-titled debut album Weather Report, released in 1971, caused a sensation in the jazz world and is still considered a classic of early fusion. It was awarded Album of the Year by Down Beat magazine’s polls that year. Here we have the free-floating, abstract beginnings of Weather Report, which would define the state of the electronic jazz rock art from its first note almost to its last. Their first album is a direct extension of the Miles Davis In a Silent Way / Bitches Brew period, more fluid in sound and more volatile in interplay. Joe Zawinul ruminates in a delicate, liquid manner on Rhodes electric piano; at this early stage, he used a ring modulator to create weird synthesizer-like effects. Wayne Short

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