Weather Report release their eighth album : ‘Heavy Weather’ featuring ‘Birdland’ by Joe Zawinul and Teen Town by Jaco Pastorius (1977)

Weather Report‘s ‘Heavy Weather’ is their eighth (and most commercially successful) album released in March 1977 y Columbia.

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ESC/Birdland publish Joe Zawinul’s last album : ‘Brown Street’ recorded with the WDR Big Band (2006)

Joe Zawinul‘s ‘Brown Street’ is his last album recorded with the WDR Big Band, revisiting his old repertoire live in Vienna and released on November 27, 2006 by Esc/Birdland.

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Weather Report perform in Copenhagen (1975)

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Los Lobos release their first album : ‘How Will the Wolf Survive?’ oduced by T-Bone Burnett and Steve Berlin (1984)

Los Lobos‘ ‘How Will the Wolf Survive?’ is their first album produced by T-Bone Burnett and Steve Berlin and released in October 1984 by Slash/Warner Bros.

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‘Jobim, Hancock & Friends’ Tom Jobim’s last concert

On September 27, 1993, in Sao Paulo ‘Tom’ Jobim joins a group of American and Brazilian artists – Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ron Carter, Harvey Mason, Shirley Horn, John Hendricks, Gal Costa, Oscar Castro-Neves, Paulo Jobim and Alex Acuna – to perform four songs during what will stay as his last Brazilian public performance.

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Ella Fitzgerald records ‘Ella Abraça Jobim,’ an album of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s songs (1980)

Ella Fitzgerald‘s ‘Ella Abraça Jobim’ is a studio album devoted to the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim and recorded on September 17–19, 1980 and March 18–20, 1981.

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Tito Puente celebrates ‘Latin Labor Day’ (1981)

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Capitol publish ‘Woodface,’ Crowded House’s third album featuring ‘Weather with You’ (1991)

Crowded House‘s ‘Woodface’ is their third studio album featuring ‘Weather with You,’ produced by Mitchell Froom and band member Neil Finn and released on July 1st, 1991 by Capitol

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