Weather Report
 Joe Zawinul (b. 1932) and Wayne Shorter (b. 1933) first played together in trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's band in 1959. For the next decade Shorter played tenor saxophone in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet. Zawinul spent the 1960's playing keyboard for Cannonball Adderly for whom he wrote the jazz-rock hit Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. In 1970, Zawinul and Shorter formed the jazz-rock group Weather Report with bassist Miroslav Vitous, drummer Alphonse Mouzon, and percussionist Airto Moreira.
Did you know?
- Joe Zawinul was a pioneer in the jazz use of synthesizers.
- Birdland, which was a hit for the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer as well as for Maynard Ferguson, was written by Joe Zawinul. The title comes from a famous New York jazz club of the same name.
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