Emerging from the charged, electric atmosphere of Miles Davis’s late-1960s ensembles, Weather Report materialized in 1970 not merely as a band, but as a bold new hypothesis in the language of jazz. The group was officially founded in New York, NY, by a triumvirate of visionary composers and instrumentalists: Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš. While Zawinul and Shorter, who had first played together in Maynard Ferguson’s big band in 1959, are often credited with initiating the project, Vitouš has maintained that he and Shorter were the original architects who subsequently brought Zawinul The post Complete List Of Weather Report Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.