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Black Market: Wayne Shorter & Weather Report #6

Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, April 1976

WEATHER REPORT — the adventuresome, electronically-spiced neo-jazz group founded five years ago by Josef Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Mirsolav Vitous, and still co-led by the first two gentlemen — has shown a remarkable ability to change personnel and to revise musical hypotheses without losing its sense of identity.

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