Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller (1973)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Weather Report Title Mysterious Traveller Length 48:21 Discs: 1 Tracks: 7 Format CD Packaging Jewel Case Label Columbia Cat. Number CK-32494 Style Fusion Rating Recorded 1973  at  Devonshire Sound, North Hollywood, CA

Musicians	Credits
Joe Zawinul vocals, keyboards, percussion Wayne Shorter sax tenor, sax soprano Alfonso Johnson bass Ishmael Wilburn drums Skip Hadden drums Dom Um Romao percussion	Producer Joe Zawinul Producer Wayne Shorter Engineer Ron Malo

Track list

01 Nubian Sundance (Zawinul) 10:43 02 American Tango (Vitous/Zawinul) 03:44 03 Cucumber Slumber (Johnson/Zawinul) 08:23 04 Mysterious Traveller (Shorter) 07:21 05 Blackthorn Rose (Shorter) 05:04 06 Scarlet Woman (Johnson/Shorter/Zawinul) 05:44 07 Jungle Book (Zawinul) 07:22

Notes

AMG Review (4 1/2): Weather Report's fourth recording finds Wayne Shorter (on soprano and tenor) taking a lesser role as Joe Zawinul begins to really dominate the group's sound. Most selections also include bassist Alphonso Johnson and drummer Ishmael Wilburn although the personnel shifts from track to track. "Nubian Sundance" adds several vocalists while "Blackthorn Rose" is a Shorter-Zawinul duet. Overall the music is pretty stimulating and sometimes adventurous; high-quality fusion from 1974. — Scott Yanow