Weather Report — The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978-1981 — is due Nov. 20 on Legacy Recordings.
I’m pretty excited about this. My favorite Weather Report album of all time is the underrated Night Passage.
I still get a chill when I hear the cheering on the live cut on Night Passage because it reminds me of the time when I first heard it and realized, “Holy crap! This is LIVE!”
Here’s “Birdland” from 1978:
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Progarchy 
The musicianship of this legendary band is off the charts. I tend to not care too much for “fusion” jazz, but Weather Report is so, so beyond what usually passes for that these days. And Wayne Shorter can do no wrong, not just as a player but perhaps especially as a composer. He is up there with Duke Ellington in the jazz pantheon of composers. Thanks, Time Lord!
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