Average Rating: (4.6 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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Unremarkable
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.
Submitted by wrthawg (Woodbridge, VA) 
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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.
Submitted by boris_boy (Brisbane, Australia)
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mind blowing
this is the best album of theirs I've heard so far...I just bought 13 wr albums (I only need wr/1971, live in tokyo/1972, sweetnighter/1973, domino theory/1984) and this one really jumps out at you on first listen...the drumming is absolutely fantastic...the groove it gets you in...and the evocations brought forth by some riding the most surreal and powerful approaches to invocation of the grand muse make obvious this is music of the highest caliber...one of the top 10 fusion albums of all time in my opinion, alongside Miles, McLaughlin and the lot...this is music that connects you to another world...absolutely breathtaking
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Fusion at its finest
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing/hearing this album(yes,album-not yet cd) performed live after its release. One of my most memorable concert-going experiences! Joe Zawinul is a genius.
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