Night Passage (Weather Report album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Night Passage
Type = Studio album
Artist = Weather Report


Released = 1980
Recorded = The Complex, Los Angeles, California
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 48:05
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:29kxu32ganxk link]
Last album = ""
(1979)
This album = "Night Passage"
(1980)
Next album = "Weather Report
(1982)

"Night Passage" is Weather Report's tenth album, released in 1980. The album brings about 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.

Track listing

#"Night Passage" (Zawinul)– 6:33
#"Dream Clock" (Zawinul)– 6:29
#"Port of Entry" (Shorter)– 5:10
#"Forlorn" (Zawinul)– 3:53
#"Rockin' In Rhythm" (Carney, Ellington, Mills)– 3:03
#"Fast City" (Zawinul)– 6:21
#"Three Views of a Secret" (Pastorius)– 5:55
#"Madagascar" (Zawinul) "live in Osaka, Japan" – 10:57

Personnel

*Josef Zawinul - Keyboards
*Wayne Shorter - Saxophones
*Jaco Pastorius - Bass
*Peter Erskine - Drums
*Robert Thomas Jr. - Hand drums

External links

* [http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/Night%20Passage.html Weather Report Annotated Discography: Night Passage]