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One of Weather Report's most varied and exciting records, overflowing with daring keyboard chops, saucy, multi-ethnic rhythms, molten-hot textures and boundless energy. By this point, Zawinul was becoming the elder statesman of fusion, his mastery of his synth arsenal unparalleled by anyone save Chick Corea. But where Corea opted for the far reaches of Hubbard space, Zawinul rooted himself in virtual rainforests, where teeming exotic aggregates of organic life possessed their own unique grooves.
On "Nubian Sundance," Zawinul's keyboards cut colorful swathes through dense jungle funk bottomed out by Ishmael Wilburn's drums and Miroslav Vitous' serpentine basslines. MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER also sports the Weather Report standard "Cucumber Slumber," rippling curbside funk that finds Shorter waxing rhapsodically over Alphonso Johnson's booty-quiverin' bottom end. Superfine struts from the sultans of fusion swing.
4th Studio Album
Recorded at Devonshire Sound, North Hollywood, California between February and March 1974. Includes liner notes by Hal Miller.
Weather Report: Wayne Shorter (soprano & tenor saxophones); Joe Zawinul (Fender Rhodes, piano, synthesizer); Alphonso Johnson (electric bass); Ishmael Wilburn (drums); Dom Um Romao (percussion).
Additional personnel: Miroslav Vitous (acoustic bass); Eric Gravatt (drums).
Q (8/02, p.148) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Worth a punt...with Austrian-born Joe Zawinul experimenting purposefully with keyboards and effects..."
Uncut (8/02, p.122) - 4 out of 5 - "...These reissues are indispensable to the history of jazz-rock fusion..." Mysterious Traveller Music Weather Report Mysterious Traveller Songs Mysterious Traveller Music Mysterious Traveller Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   awsome, just awsome
Mysterious Traveller is awsome. It's one of the best Weather Report albums ever made(all of them are great, but this is one of the better ones). If you havent heard it, you gotta.
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Unlike other heavy Weather Report discs this one just does not measure up in my view. I prefer the band's later lineup that included Jaco who in my opinion was the greatest jazz bassist. Joe Z. is genius with his keyboard work but later releases of this awesome band are much better like the seminal, Heavey Weather. Weather Report is the standard by which all jazz fusion is measured.
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weather report's strongest album
For me, this represents the pinnacle of Weather Report as a jazz fusion band. Whilst it might be argued that Black Market is the more effortlessly brilliant of the albums, this one is their most cerebral and original. The vision Zawinul had is perfectly realised here, and the other members of the band play perfect roles in the grand scheme of the Master. That is to say, they don't get in the way. Because Weather Report was essentially Zawinul's band. The Jaco era was brilliant, but Jaco really had too much individual talent for the band, and his brilliance actually gets in the way of some of their latter work. This is the best WR album, as a statement and defining work of Joe Zawinul's grand vision.
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