Weather Report – Night Passage (VG+/VG) – LP, AU 1980

Night Passage is an LP by Weather Report from 1980 released on the CBS label.

About this album

Night Passage is a sharp, late-period Weather Report album that tightens the group’s fusion language into something leaner and more forceful. Released in 1980, it finds the band balancing fluid ensemble interplay with Afro-Cuban rhythms, intricate grooves and Joe Zawinul’s distinctive keyboard textures. Alongside the group’s own material, the album reflects the band’s broad jazz vocabulary and restless sense of movement, from atmospheric pieces to more propulsive passages. As one of Weather Report’s last classic-era statements, it captures a band still pushing forward with precision, energy and unmistakable identity.

Genre: Jazz

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