Weather Report – Black Market (CD)

Black Market marked a pivotal transition for Weather Report, the 1976 album introducing both Jaco Pastorius as a contributor and Alphonso Johnson's final recordings with the group. Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter had built one of jazz's most restlessly evolving bands, and this release captures them mid-reinvention, balancing electric groove with the harmonic sophistication that set them apart from every fusion act that followed in their wake.