Released 1980 Night Passage
(1980) Weather Report
(1982) Release date 1980 Genre Jazz fusion | Length 48:05 Artist Weather Report Label Columbia Records | |
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Recorded July 12/13, 1980 (#1-7)
The Complex, Los Angeles
June 1980 (#8)
Osaka, Japan Producers Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius Similar Weather Report albums, Jazz fusion albums | ||
Night Passage is the eleventh album by Weather Report, released in 1980. The tracks were recorded in August 1980 at The Complex studios in Los Angeles (before a crowd of 250 people who can be heard on a couple of tracks), except for "Madagascar", recorded live in Osaka, in June of the same year. The album introduces a new member to the band, percussionist Robert Thomas Jr. Night Passage loses the over-done production layers of some of Weather Report's earlier releases (most notably 1978's Mr. Gone). What is lost in layers of overdubs is made up in solo improvisation in the classic jazz tradition.
Contents
Trivia
"Three Views of a Secret" would be rerecorded for Jaco's solo album Word of Mouth.
Personnel
Songs
1Night Passage6:30
2Dream Clock6:26
3Port of Entry5:09
References
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